Rather than relying on Classification. with hashtag, it is better to use link between pages” (shokai, in ScrapboxDrinkup). - Do not classify. Basic principles of the KJ method

2017-05-27

Because of what looks like “tags”, Scrapbox tends to be misunderstood as “that kind of thing” by people who have experience with existing tools that “allow more flexible organization than hierarchical classification by tagging objects” (I was one such example)Hierarchy

It became clear when shokai said at the Scrapbox drinkup, “You didn’t come to this venue knowing the latitude and longitude, you came from the station via the road” metaphor.link is a road Tags make it easier to find, not by ticking off a scale in space and organizing it according to a frame, but by connecting paths between pages. see sweet potato search.

  • [Scrapbox displays the pages connected by two hops from the currently open page at the bottom. In other words, it is equivalent to a two-level mind map centered on the current point.

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