Cyborganize launched - the ultimate outliner productivity system

Posted by Foolness
Aug 23, 2011 at 12:15 AM

Thanks for the quick reply. I think this was the only one you didn’t understand so let me clarify:

“?It basically seems like the idea is to create one panel where these are all notes and on the other side these is your blog editor with the exception that instead of immediately or randomly creating a post from several references? there?s the additional barrier that you just combine the brain dumps of tags with the notes and then reorganize them into categories and voila! You have now produced a webpage.”

I was trying to rephrase your right brain and left brain workflow graphic into a synchronized side by side sequence.

From the way your graphic showed, the two tasks had to be done the same time and in cooperative levels.

This is where it seemed to simulate someone having their notes and typing things into their text/blogs while they have their notes in front of them, on a list of files in another side like a panel of notes or a dual pane outliner.

One thing I do not quite follow is where the increase of speed happens. I can sort of understand where you might see simpler outliners as unfocused but surely the speed boost from using Brainstorm’s hotkeys would be offset by this:

Quick: Now here?s an example of Cyborganize in action: I dumped your message into a scratch Emacs file,

Medium: composed my reply to your quoted paragraphs, posted it on outlinersoftware.com, and will now switch to another scratch file and continue what I was doing before.

Slow/Requires web access/requires wordpress to update the finished post: Later when I batch clean my scratch files, I will upload this to my T3 blog and categorize it ?Cyborganize.?

Slow in Wordpress depending on speed of internet or whether it’s the hosted or free version: I?ll also create an actionable ?take into account foolness?s questions on next cyborganize writing round - see T3?.

Thinking required/Requires searching for specific content: Much later I?ll come back to all this, and the info will be there waiting for me, whether I come across it by searching through my Cyborganize Longform Loop for content ideas, or as I?m sorting through my actionables tree for next Cyborganize actions.

Duplicate action: It will also be copied into my ?notes.org? Emacs chronological tape,

Inconsistent future action that may or may not happen: and it may even at some point get sorted into my notes.brn file, if I ever catch up on that. Most likely though, it will get re-digested during a future Cyborganize writing session with the aid of BrainStorm, and converted into document editing actionables.

As with any to-do list productivity system that tries to waterfall the tasks, Cyborganize seems to encounter many friction as it cascades down. I hope you don’t take this as an insult. I’m generally curious but the process seem to disappear the more you go down the workflow and as a result it seems like you end up having to re-edit and re-write the contents kind of like a book or a constantly updated blog or for the sake of simplicity even e-mail replying which follows the same Inbox Zero-like mentality where you set it aside, collect the things you need to say, reply and then let the e-mail program archive it. In the near future if you remember something about the item, you search for it. Only the setting aside of the “scratch file” and the search capability of the program seems to be frictionless. Everything else like categories seem to be just that: about making categories for everything with little help from the other steps in the workflow and transforms every task list into a make a category for this task or insert this task into a category you like and it will automagically boost your productivity for now being in a category that you can also put in other categories.