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January 30, 2005
Give me space!
Related to the last post, I'm interested improving how I manage all sorts of data, and I hope to form better habits. I accumulate lots of useful tidbits, but the collection has gotten to the point that I can't just rely on memory to find those bits anymore. Paper files are not my natural habit - I tend to just pile things up. I recently worked through years worth of piles using Kiplinger's Taming the Paper Tiger - it helped me get the piles into files, but the software has a pretty clunky interface. They recently announced an upgrade version is ready - but it costs nearly the same as the initial version (overpriced), so I am not rushing out to see if it is substantially improved.
I'm moving more and more towards eliminating paper files where I can, and this post by Jack Vinson gives me hope that good solutions for organizing and finding electronic information - personal knowledge management (to supplement my brain and my Gmail brain) - are not far off. Jack includes a link to an article with this ultimate goal:
What do we envision in referring to the lifetime personal Web space (LPWS)? Imagine a magnificently equipped (with software, communication, search, and multimedia tools), beehive-configured Web space that possesses sufficient organizational plasticity to accommodate the user’s developmental capacities and needs across a lifetime. The LPWS will thus be organized more like our brains than our file cabinets.
Sounds like just the thing to me...
Posted by Mary at January 30, 2005 11:03 PM