Cyborganize launched - the ultimate outliner productivity system

Posted by Chris Murtland
Jul 19, 2011 at 10:39 PM

I see the merits of BrainStorm (forced focus and quick rearranging) and keeping things segmented based on source (internal/external) and level of polish or completeness. But perhaps the system is too abstract and seemingly convoluted (there is a lot of copying and pasting, and things live in multiple places) to be immediately useful to someone first reading about it - it would be nice to see some specific examples or scenarios like taking an incoming client email that contains 10 tasks of varying complexity and timeframes and processing that through the system. The system seems rather introspective, which is not bad - but work is often full of competing, external demands.

Also, BrainStorm does have unique affordances, but I get a little lost on the need for two blogs and a wiki… couldn’t these just be three folders of text files, for example?

Do you use namesakes at all? It seems like that might be a way to preserve the chronological order within BrainStorm while still sorting the same entries conceptually in another part of the model.

Anyway, it’s always interesting to read about very detailed workflows.

Chris