As I try to keep my digital and work life organized and balanced, I have yet to come up with a satisfactory solution for organizing interesting articles that I might like to come back to at some point. David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, suggests a "tickler file". This is a file system for things you might like to come back to at some point that cycles month by month. If you want to see something again in the future, you might shove it into a folder for July. When July rolls around, you empty your July folder into a series of folders for the various days of the month. Every day, you check your tickler file. I haven't managed to connect with a tickler file system. It requires too much upkeep and is a bit of a lottery choosing when I might have time to deal with and think about something like this again.
Take for instance, this article that has been sitting in an open tab on my phone for two years. The concept of digital media making traditional paper formats obsolete has been interesting to me for some time. Most of us have experienced printing out a PDF because reading one on screen is just cumbersome: we don't read on-screen the same way we do hard copy. So why are we using 21st Century technology to emulate the printing press? There has to be something better. One day, I might write more about this topic but I haven't decided what yet. One possibility is I store this as research material in a "Someday Maybe" project. But it might also be a good trigger in the future for starting that project. Furthermore, maybe I'm not yet ready to decide what that project will look like. How do you log interesting reads and find reliable ways to come back to them at appropriate times?
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Martin d brazeauPalaeontologist, fieldworker, sometimes phylogenetic programmer. Transplanted Canadian in UK. All views are my own. How to pronounce my name? Rhymes with "bureau" or "chateau". He/him/his. Archives
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