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You can read about many of these historical methods of organization in Judith Flanders' A Place for Everything: The Curious history of Alphabetical Order - http

You can read about many of these historical methods of organization in Judith Flanders' A Place for Everything: The Curious history of Alphabetical Order - https://www.amazon.com/Place-Everything-Curious-History-Alphabetical/dp/154167507X https://www.amazon.com/Place-Everything-Curious-History-Alph..., and The Library of Alexander: Center of Learning in the Ancient World by Roy MacLeod - https://www.amazon.com/Library-Alexandria-Learning-Ancient-Revised/dp/1850435944/ref=asc_df_1850435944/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312176356508&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9221970898134802772&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019691&hvtargid=pla-568730072140&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=60258871657&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312176356508&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9221970898134802772&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019691&hvtargid=pla-568730072140 https://www.amazon.com/Library-Alexandria-Learning-Ancient-R...

kkfx 4y ago
Thanks :-) I'll add Cataloging the World, by Alex Wright and Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 by Markus Krajewski plus few relatively recent articles: - Note Taking as an Art of Transmission http://doi.org/10.1086/427303 http://doi.org/10.1086/427303 - From Note-Taking to Data Banks https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2010.492615 https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2010.492615 - Facing Interfaces: Paul Otlet's Visualizations of Data Integration https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/e/e2/Heuvel_Rayward_Facing_Interfaces.pdf https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/e/e2/Heuvel_Rayward_F... There are surely many others and following those we arrive to classic PIM publications, witch is "the system to organize personal digital information" in the end!
- pdfernhout 4y ago
  Thanks for these insights and listing these alternatives in one place and showing their commonalities (like tagging, hierarchies, and parsing/subdividing). One book I have found interesting along those lines is "The Discipline of Organizing". https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/tdo4p/ https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/tdo4p/ Tangentially, William Kent's "Data and Reality" (the first two editions especially) also explores the larger meta-issues of moving from human-ish nuanced thinking to more limited formal representations (i.e. "The map is not the territory"). http://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm http://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm Coincidentally this other HN article showed up the same day: "25+ years of personal knowledge management" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30903940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30903940 I have my own FOSS explorations to make software related to these sorts of themes called Pointrel/Twirlip -- but still a work in progress after over forty years. Indirectly Pointrel did in a sense help inspire Wordnet though. :-) And Wordnet was core to the rise of Google (via Adsense) which claims to want to organize the world's information (even if they may have other goals as well).
  - sharmi 4y ago
    Thank you for wordnet! Wordnet is also the starting point of so many dictionary/language exploration sites, including mine, niftyword.com

kkfx 4y ago

Thanks :-) I'll add Cataloging the World, by Alex Wright and Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 by Markus Krajewski plus few relatively recent articles: - Note Taking as an Art of Transmission http://doi.org/10.1086/427303 http://doi.org/10.1086/427303 - From Note-Taking to Data Banks https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2010.492615 https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2010.492615 - Facing Interfaces: Paul Otlet's Visualizations of Data Integration https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/e/e2/Heuvel_Rayward_Facing_Interfaces.pdf https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/e/e2/Heuvel_Rayward_F... There are surely many others and following those we arrive to classic PIM publications, witch is "the system to organize personal digital information" in the end!

pdfernhout 4y ago
Thanks for these insights and listing these alternatives in one place and showing their commonalities (like tagging, hierarchies, and parsing/subdividing). One book I have found interesting along those lines is "The Discipline of Organizing". https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/tdo4p/ https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/tdo4p/ Tangentially, William Kent's "Data and Reality" (the first two editions especially) also explores the larger meta-issues of moving from human-ish nuanced thinking to more limited formal representations (i.e. "The map is not the territory"). http://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm http://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm Coincidentally this other HN article showed up the same day: "25+ years of personal knowledge management" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30903940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30903940 I have my own FOSS explorations to make software related to these sorts of themes called Pointrel/Twirlip -- but still a work in progress after over forty years. Indirectly Pointrel did in a sense help inspire Wordnet though. :-) And Wordnet was core to the rise of Google (via Adsense) which claims to want to organize the world's information (even if they may have other goals as well).
- sharmi 4y ago
  Thank you for wordnet! Wordnet is also the starting point of so many dictionary/language exploration sites, including mine, niftyword.com