Pile of Index Cards

In the PoIC system, the dock works as storage of our thought : all index cards we wrote drop into the Dock. You feel comfort since you are far from frustrations such as “where did I put my index cards?”.

All you need is to look into the dock, then you’ll find them all.

This is first mentioned in “「超」整理法 (cho seiri ho)” by Noguchi Yukio, who introduced push-out filing system now formally known as “Noguchi Filing System“. Noguchi called this simple rule-of-thumb as “one pocket rule“.

That is, if the pocket is two or more, and you put something, you have to look all these pockets : on the other hand, if you have a single pocket only, all you do is just look into the “one pocket”. Keep thing simple, then you will save your time.

For example, it is convenient to put all things, that you take when you go out, in a single basket (over nighter). When you go out, you pick up keys, watch, wallet etc. from the basket. Same is true for index cards.

The one pocket rule prevent our productive energy from dissipation.

# Noguchi noted that he had never taken full advantage of the “one pocket rule” with his filing system, though, because he have two filing systems, one in his office and another in home. It is unavoidable with analog media.

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