Organizing lots of thought snippets

Posted by Hugh
Jan 26, 2015 at 11:25 AM

tradercclee wrote:
Hi all!
> >What’s your best system to organize lots of snippets of thoughts?

Tinderbox: see this description: http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/forum//YaBB.cgi?num=1421254289, and this recent thread: http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5711/0/what-is-tinderbox-interesting-summary.
On the Mac platform. Here’s another, simpler Mac programme I’ve used in the distant past: http://www.boswell.com/quotes.html. However I fear that Boswell is no longer being updated and may not work with recent OS X versions.
> >I’ve been using Workflowy exclusively for a while now.
> >The good news is that I’ve stuck with Workflowy, and it’s a great
>repository of all my ideas.
>The bad news is that there are so many snippets, it takes a lot of time
>to piece everything together to get insights.
> >I capture a lot of ideas. And they are roughly organized into
>categories.
> >But sometimes thoughts overlap categories, or don’t belong in any.
>So now I have tons of snippets strewn throughout the outline.
> >Once in a while, I go back to clean up and reorganize.
>But this is a pain.
> >I’d like to discover insights shared by snippets of thoughts.
>And have an easy way to quickly put ideas into categories/tags as I’m
>capturing the ideas.
> >Would love to hear your latest and best ideas!
> >PS - there was a German filing system mentioned here a while back, where
>each note is tagged with an ID number?... I don’t remember the name.
>Wondering if this would help?

Probably Zettelkasten. Here’s a website devoted to it: http://zettelkasten.de, which has been created by Christian Tietze, a member of this forum. A search of the forum for “zettelkasten” will turn up his and others’ postings on the subject, including suggestions for zettelkasten-suitable software on the Windows platform.
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