Forum Posts Feed
Processes not tools
< Next Topic | Back to topic list | Previous Topic >
Posted by Chris Thompson
Sep 25, 2018 at 07:55 PM
That’s pretty fascinating—you’ve encouraged me to read Whittaker and Bergman’s book. I’m curious if they looked at any spatial alternatives (like hierarchical folders in a mind map configuration), given that locational cues seem to be important?
—Chris
Pixelpunker wrote:
>
>Whittaker and Bergman tell me that, surprisingly in light of all the
>advanced approaches, the traditional folder or outliner hierarchy is
>best and they have some empirical data to back that up. The explanation
>for this is that a fixed folder hierarchy leads to retrieval by
>locational cues and does not tax the verbal system. It’s sort of like
>why the method of loci works as a mnemonic aid. They also determined the
>optimal number of items per folder and hierarchy depth that would
>optimize the search time by using linear regression…
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 25, 2018 at 08:12 PM
@Pixelpunker
Thanks for your thoughts, though I disagree with some.
And thanks for broadening my horizon by mentioning the 3 books. Just ordered 2 of them.
Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 25, 2018 at 08:41 PM
That’s an admirable objective. The mania of “productivity” and “organization” seems to be a very twenty-teens preoccupation and perhaps motivates a lot of the software industry (other than games and shopping). For me, as my own shelf life diminishes I am increasingly less interested in finding all my thoughts and plans, etc., and “productivity” bores me.
Pixelpunker wrote:
>I once stumbled upon in a German book about time management from 1983 on
>a checklist for perfect time management. This is Point 4 (my
>translation):
>
>
>————————————————————————————————————-
> | I have a system of notes that gives me at any time an overview of all
> | my thoughts, plans, commitments and tasks.
>————————————————————————————————————-
>
>That is exactly what I want to achieve.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 25, 2018 at 08:49 PM
Pixelpunker wrote:
>I once stumbled upon in a German book about time management from 1983 on
>a checklist for perfect time management.
And its title is?
Posted by J J Weimer
Sep 25, 2018 at 09:26 PM
> I certainly don’t want to rile anyone up over their use of finely
crafted software tools made by passionate developers.
I was just trying to see past what seemed be conflicting statements. No riling up was understood nor intended.
I appreciate that you are presenting an interesting treatise.