Output without input is impossible
Ref. : @ blog v. 1.5, Statistics and Analysis
Look close at my Dock@home and tag of the cards in detail. You find Record and Discovery cards are dominant. It means I had used the PoIC system mainly as record and idea capture. The GTD card is not so many because most of time a GTD stuff is processed on the Fieldnote.
So a statistics that I made at the end of last year reflects mainly a number of Record and Discovery Card. It shows huge oscillation, from 100 at minimum to 400 at maximum.
Weissmanrichard, a flickr user, give me an interesting comment about the statistics. He points out Record, GTD, and Discovery are an output (blue line in the picture), and Reference is an input (red line in the picture). I had never imagine such view points before.
What I can deduce from them is, if I concentrate only to output, it oscillates like a wave. Increase, soon it stops, then starts decrease. In other words, a slump happen anyhow. Output without input is limited, or more strongly impossible. In my case a input mainly come from reading. The Reference Card is much more important in the system than I thought before. I had a trick not to take note of the book. I need to rethink how to take the Reference cards better.
