"The Tinderbox Way" Book - Is it worth buying and reading?

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Posted by Lothar Scholz
Aug 29, 2017 at 11:34 PM

Dellu wrote:
> Have you read “Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with
>Library and Internet Materials”. Tinderbox WAY is similar to that. But,
>I think Digital Paper goes to more details on how to manage digital
>information that the Tinderbox WAY.

Thanks, i have not. But it will change, just ordered a copy.

Posted by nathanb
Aug 30, 2017 at 06:45 PM

> >Are there other better, more focused books on how to manage information
>out there?
> >This is very interesting topic to talk about.
>

Yes, yes it is. Some good ones I’ve discovered over the past few years:

http://disciplineoforganizing.org/ which is several editions of a fantastic text plus supporting website. Focused on general info management rather than personal. Not great for step by step examples, but really good for clarifying terms. I think that’s really important to do, both with our personal CRIMPing journey and communicating with others. Terms like keyword, category, tag, etc vary wildly between platforms that we really need to start being more consistent.

http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/ Another University research group project sort of like the former. Though it seems to have stopped producing anything a few years ago. The actual book “Keeping Found things Found” is one of my faves. More focused on personal information management.

“Where Good Ideas Come From” Steven Johnson. This had a very good in-depth description of how he used Devon Think. Possibly the best concrete example of how to leverage personal notes I’ve ever read. That example is my mental target as a CRIMPer and has made me dissatisfied with any PC solution ever since.

Books by David Weinberger are great. “Too Big to Know”, “Everything is Miscellaneous” etc. I have simultaneously more and less appreciation for the Dewey decimal system after reading his history and thoughts on that.

“The Information” by James Gleick blew my mind. High level, but also made me think differently about all the data in my life and it’s long term role.

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