Pile of Index Cards

Circle

The 43Tabs is brand new index cards system introduced by NozarashiTei-san. The 43Tabs provides a sophisticated way to capture and process GTD tasks. NozarashiTei-san proposes the “PoIC+43Tabs” system. Following is an information flow in the combined system.

1. 43Tabs system (future to now) : This system handles information from “future” to “now”. The GTD, ToDo tasks belongs to this kind of information. The 43Tabs and PoIC is connected at “now”. They consists a single time axis runs through future, now, to past.
   
2. Chronological Order (now to past) : We stack all information, Record, Discovery, GTD (processed in 43Tabs), and Cite, in chronological order. Just simply stack them. Do not classify, do not search, do not revise the order. Leave system complex.
   
3. Task Force (past to here) : The accumulation of index cards in chronological order is not the end of whole process. When we see a pattern between index cards in the dock at a certain time, we organize “Task Force”. We pick up index cards from the dock and reuse them. The “Task Force” is understood as a process to pull back information from “past” to “here”.
   
4. Reproduction (here to future) : We spread the Task Force on desktop to organize group, try to find patterns among them. We obtain new knowledge through this process. The results are feed-forward to our future. The results will change the future, although they may not always “GTD task”. Therefore, the space is connected to time, again.

From the view point of information flow in PoIC+43Tabs system, time-axis (lower half arc) and space-axis (upper half arc) are connected, and build up a full circle. What we see in PoIC+43Tabs is, perhaps, whole life of information.

野ざらし亭さんの 43Tabs システムは、時間軸の中の「いま」で PoIC 時系列スタック法につながる。タスクフォース編成と再生産は空間軸の中の「ここ」で行われ、その結果は「未来」にフィードフォワードされる。PoIC+43Tabs システムでは、時間軸と空間軸がつながり、「ひとつの輪」を作る。

# Revised : 2007.12.04 Picture modified.

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6 Responses to “Circle”

1. ksk Says:
   December 12th, 2007 at 4:19 pm

   hey hawk,

   thank you sincerely for sharing your wisdom with the world. the POIC is a great gift to the online community and is appreciated by so very many.
   however, those of us in the states feel a little ‘left in the dust,’ so to speak,
   as recently some key amendments to the system have been explained
   only in japanese.

   for example, i can deduce the general concept of the 43 tabs system from
   the website and diagrams, but the exact methodology remains a little unclear.
   i also wish that us USA-POICers could have a second chance at purchasing some Correct goods. even a temporary re-opening of the POIC-store would be an amazing christmas gift for those of us who wish to better our productivity and creativity in the new year! thanks in advance for your consideration, and for all your good work.

2. Hawk Says:
   December 17th, 2007 at 10:55 am

   >>ksk

   Hi ksk. Thank you for your comments. :)

   About the 43Tabs. First, I’m not sure to explain the detail of the 43Tabs at my blog or wiki by me. Because I think honor of the 43Tabs is of NozarashiTei-san. He made it. So it must be done on his place, basically.

   Second, it is not totally easy to translate from Japanese to English. Ttranslation from English to Japanese is much easier in my case. When I write in English, I try to think in English. I think your expectation for translation of 43Tabs concept that is originally written in Japanese to English will load huge effort on NozarashiTei-san (and/or me).

   Here is plan B. We translate Japanese to English by using robot like google translation. It is not always “perfect” english, it must be corrected by native English speakers. I need your help to do this. I’m totally O.K. to provide PoIC Wiki space to work on this assignment. First of all, however, we need to confirm the permissions to NozarashiTei-san, of course. Personally, I think the 43Tabs is really great system worth to share the idea with the world.

   I need comments.

   About Christmas gift. O.K. Let’s think about it positively. Recently, I discussed about this with Jazzmasterson, too, at PoIC workshop. So now I believe there are needs for Correct goods. It is pleasure for me to send christmas gift to PoIC users. I will announce about PoIC-store on this blog soon.

3. JennyB Says:
   December 17th, 2007 at 7:56 pm

   Where can I find an English description of 43Tabs? Babelfish is not enough!

4. Hawk Says:
   December 18th, 2007 at 2:59 pm

   >>JennyB

   Thanks JennyB.

   Anybody know any better translator robot?

   The only thing I know is Sherlock and google (and the Sherlock is disappeared from Mac OS X..).

5. 野ざらし亭 Says:
   December 20th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

   Japanese, sorry.

   こんにちは、野ざらし亭です。
   どうも「43Tabs」のエントリーを英訳するかどうかという話題だと察しますが、
   私の能力ではそれは充分に達成できません。

   しかし、もしも誰かが私のかわりに英訳の労を取って頂けるのであれば、
   喜んでテキストおよび図、写真を提供する準備があります。

6. Hawk Says:
   December 21st, 2007 at 12:51 am

   >>野ざらし亭さん

   こんにちは。

   「43Tabs」ついて英訳のリクエストが出ています。
   私個人としても、ぜひ英訳するべきだと思います。

   私は日本語から英語に翻訳するのは苦手なのですが、
   みんなでちょっとずつ力を出しあえばなんとか成るかな、と楽観的に考えています。
   これまでも、PoIC マニュアル英語版で、
   ネイティブのコントリビューターさんに力を貸していただきました。

   作業には、PoIC Wiki のスペースを使おうと思います。
   文・図・写真は、材料をメールで送っていただければ、私が Wiki にアップロードします。
   もし、可能であれば、Upload file からご自身でアップロードしていただくと助かります。
   アカウントが必要となりますが、気軽に参加して下さい :)

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