How to Organize Digital Information Like Your Brain
Solving today’s large problems requires connecting seemingly unconnected dots
Today’s large problems are all interconnected to many subjects, and sometimes even depend on a single person’s mindset (hello Mr. Putin).
You always meet people twice or three times, but most often in totally different contexts.
Information comes from a wide range of sources, some of them suitable for one topic, others for another topic.
Yet we still treat information in a folder structure. Both literally, by sticking a piece of information in a single digital folder, like in the good old paper folder days. But more gravely, in our mental model: This person is associated with that company. This subject is only relevant to that investment. To solve this problem, I need technologies A, B, and C.
Wrong. Everything is connected. But maybe you don’t know yet, or you simply don’t see the connections yet. With the flood of information around, I can’t blame you for not seeing all the connections. Nobody can. But some freely available software technology can help you.
As usual, I am not proposing to save the world with this article. But I am trying to showcase the usage of personal notes using a tool that…
