I’ve thought that it’s a mistake for me to try to learn information management from programmers. They seem to mostly have a bunch of code-solutions to those pr

I’ve thought that it’s a mistake for me to try to learn information management from programmers. They seem to mostly have a bunch of code-solutions to those problems but don’t really have much insight into the workflows and mindset that is needed to truly handle information in a good and principled way (it seems that they often just want to manage their personal notes). Maybe that doesn’t make sense. So here’s an analogy: if you wanted to type really fast, who would you ask: a programmer or a stenographer? Sure, the programmer might have the income and idle inclination to invest in fancy keyboards and to spend some time on text/code snippet management, but the stenographer is the only one of the two who really has to be able to type fast in order to be able to do their job. I started an information management course on Coursera, hoping that I could apply some of that stuff to my own interests. However I aborted it since it didn’t seem relevant to me. Would have been nice to learn how to properly organize information. Maybe I should start with organizing physical documents.