Organizing ideas
The problem of how to organize ideas has been bugging me a lot. I've been trying to find a decent method to organize ideas.
I've come up with this new method and I think it solves my problem. I'm writing this post to get feedback but also to get affirmation which is a category-2 thing to do. I hadn't noticed earlier how much category-2 things I did.
The method is write down all ideas for log. The log goes into a passive folder.
The active folder contains a summation of all the ideas I am currently working on. The problem that has been bugging me arises because I find that logs become redundant once you make progress. But I cannot be sure that the active folder contains a complete summation of all the logs. Actually that is a very hard thing to accomplish. Thus this method of organization makes sense. Solves both problems.
To recap both problems are:
1. logs are too much to handle and thus keeping them all in active folder is not possible.
2. active folder contains a summation of logs of the current ideas I am working on but it can be missing something something so keeping a log makes sense.
I face this problem on basecamp in the following way: I don't want to make a new message board for every conversation that I want have because I feel a message board is like a final thing that goes in the public record and should be good for distribution.
I've come up with this new method and I think it solves my problem. I'm writing this post to get feedback but also to get affirmation which is a category-2 thing to do. I hadn't noticed earlier how much category-2 things I did.
The method is write down all ideas for log. The log goes into a passive folder.
The active folder contains a summation of all the ideas I am currently working on. The problem that has been bugging me arises because I find that logs become redundant once you make progress. But I cannot be sure that the active folder contains a complete summation of all the logs. Actually that is a very hard thing to accomplish. Thus this method of organization makes sense. Solves both problems.
To recap both problems are:
1. logs are too much to handle and thus keeping them all in active folder is not possible.
2. active folder contains a summation of logs of the current ideas I am working on but it can be missing something something so keeping a log makes sense.
I face this problem on basecamp in the following way: I don't want to make a new message board for every conversation that I want have because I feel a message board is like a final thing that goes in the public record and should be good for distribution.
no. you should not treat this like publishing. it's a discussion forum. it's not for distribution like canonical essays. you can make lots of topics here.
i do have a concern about making many topics, but it's different: finishing some projects successfully is important.
Are you suggesting making a tree for one topic which contains a distillation of that topic. One document is on one topic.
My problem is that I'm having difficulty closing topics because any new topic I start references and old closed one. Should I just keep writing and not worry about repeating things? Should I just keep writing everything in one document? Or if one topic is building upon an old topic then I should move this new doc writing into the old one?
I'm thinking that something like a blog will solve my problem. One topic is one blog post. New topic can reference an older blog post. And a search function will help in finding older related idea discussion.
Is there such a tool available, an offline alternative to blog? I don't want to make an online blog as I am not ready for posting online.
you could also make a tree of folders on your hard drive and organize the documents in that tree. but for that it's typical to limit nesting and go with broader categories so the total number of folders to click through is reduced.
I have a intuitive idea about nesting but I would like to understand more. Was nesting discussed in max or internetrules tutorial videos?
People's idea for what should be paid for is very bad currently. I like Sam Harris' idea on it. He talks about how people will pay 10 dollars at starbucks everyday easily but not for a monthly subscription to a podcaster like him. People claim to get much more value from the content he produces in a month than from starbucks. But no one will feel right paying that 100-300 dollars they pay at starbucks to Sam instead.
Also they might realize that they got only a fraction of X worth value from university but they paid university X.
Also the case of not being capable of paying also exists.
To me it makes sense to pay you and I plan to once I make money.