Suggestion of "Digital" Indexcarding System
ref. : Writing manual from indexcards
As this blog do, implementing the “analog” PoI system to “digital” blog system is easily done. Feature of the PoI system is,
- Icon and Tag (Record, Discovery, Reference + GTD)
- Title and contents
- Date and Time stamp
- Chronological order
- Link between cards
- Revision Rule (Capability of modification)
- Capability of Reorganization
- Star system
You see first five features are already implemented in the blog system. To implement the PoI system to blog,
- Reduce Tag to only 3-4 kinds (Record, Discovery, Reference + GTD)
- Make title exact and short
- Write the contents piece by piece
- Allow revision/modification of the contents (revised time should be recorded)
- Link between card and card, to external world, by using hyperlink
- the blog should/must be private
You can start the PoI System from a blog just in front of you. It is good if you hesitate to use this system, because of difficulty with getting indexcard and dock physically. Now all you need is some simple attitude above.
# Wish-list and problems-to-be-solved should be discussed. Any idea? :)
November 29th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Hmm. To me it sounds more like a wiki.
December 1st, 2006 at 3:03 pm
>>eu
Thank you for your comment.
I don’t know much about wiki system, though I frequently use Wikipedia. For me, “Blog” sounds more personal and friendly.
December 1st, 2006 at 3:46 pm
I just found Nata Ritter’s article about the Indexcarding sytem + blog.
Much more sophisiticated idea than my idea. Especially, I do love his idea of the plug-in for GTD and drawing diagram and taking photo by using mobile. Wow.
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:54 am
I have been using blog for writing manual of my system, as you see.
If people start to use this system, and need to update this manual to ver. 2.0, I think Wiki will work great. :)
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:11 am
I agree, wiki is the ultimate digital form of your system. I actually use a TiddlyWiki . I keep it on my hard drive (can also easily be moved from one computer to another, but everything stays in the one file) but that I use through my web browser. Rumour has it this file can get a little unstable with a lot of data, I haven’t experienced this yet but it’s very believable (javascript can be like that).
another really nice solution is VoodooPad, it’s a great app for mac that I’ve found invaluable and well worth the price I think, I am planning to buy it soon. VoodooPad can handle drawings (with mouse/trackpad) and images and omnioutliner documents that can be easily re-edited as well as basic and rich text editing, also excellent search and the printer-pdf service is great (I can import a whole web page or anything else that I can print from my computer directly into my VoodooPad just by choosing a different virtual ‘printer’)