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I'm a little bit disappointed with the static hierarchies that organizational tools seem to encourage. Though I use org-mode lovingly, my system isn't yet to a
by mbrock 9y ago
I'm a little bit disappointed with the static hierarchies that organizational tools seem to encourage. Though I use org-mode lovingly, my system isn't yet to a point where it's fully sustainable...
I really wonder how to cultivate a notes ecosystem in a healthy way, and what would be the byproducts of that. I think it has to do with different temporalities: chats, threads, notes, essays, books...
It should also have to do with pruning, weeding, rearranging, combining... maybe the occasional forest fire...
- nextos 9y agoHave you tried org-velocity?
- ellius 9y agoI have been thinking of a knowledge system with two linked guiding principles: 1. Every element is owned by a person. 2. Every element has a “decay rate” or automatic time to be trashed. I think this would make it a lot easier to track knowledge in organizations. When something becomes outdated, its owner can just let it die without having to go out and proactively prune every bit of old documentation. When a person leaves the company, his “knowledge items” can be flagged as “soon to not have an owner.” Ultimately I’d actually like to build code projects this way. It probably seems insane to a lot of people to think of the idea of letting little pieces of the code base die and stop functioning, but the benefit I perceive is that our systems would always be tied to some degree to a human understander.
- mbrock 9y agoRight on, I'm a huge fan of the idea of decay in information systems!