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How do you make sense of your library of books/readings etc.?
Physical and/or digital. Books, articles, or anything else you might want to reference. How do you make sense of all the resources you've gathered?
Beyond the usual sorting by "Author/Date" and by topics (eg Tech, Psychology), I'm interested to hear about some of the strategies, frameworks, philosophies etc that you have figured out in terms of organizing your library?
Eg. the groupings you use, particular categories/tags (eg "classics"), etc.
- DantesKite 5y agoPart of me suspects because there's no obvious answer, there are no good answers and until technology improves, everything is effectively a compromise. In some sense, you're trying to build a more meaningful Google, albeit at a much smaller scale. I will say it wasn't intentional, but Kindle highlights have been unexpectedly useful for giving me a "feel" for what a book is about and reminding me about important insights I may have forgotten. I use Roam Research daily as a journal, but I don't find it useful for retrieving information, maybe because I can't explicitly predict the structures I'll need ahead of time.
- simonblack 5y agoCalibre software for ebooks