I love good design, well-considered formatting. However the process of consideration consumes me whenever I try to implement it in my life

When I still had university library access, I would look through a journal/book publisher’s entire archive, and download everything that caught my fancy, just to have. A couple month’s later I would return to the archive, and collect anything interesting that has been released since my last visit.

COMMITTING TO AN ORGANISATIONAL SYSTEM IS AN ALL OR NOTHING COMMITMENT

a database map shows how things relate to each other

If I don't know something, I want to know where I can find it

Ways I organise knowledge:

• Typing things out in a notetaking app, with the freedom to rewrite, edit, reorganise in perpetuity. Occasionally being distracted by the infinite formatting possibilities.

• Writing things out on individual cards, laying them out on a large surface, sliding and grouping as I see fit. Not wanting to tidy them up or glue them down in any particular order.

Things I am drawn to:

• libraries

• mood boards

• tagging systems

COMMITTING TO AN ORGANISATIONAL SYSTEM IS AN ALL OR NOTHING COMMITMENT

I have accumulated a massive collection of pdfs and e-books. They exist in one space. It has gotten to the point where the task of cataloguing them all has become too gargantuan for me to just bash out.

On my browser window lives a bookmark to an SQL online course. In my YouTube bookmarks lives a similar tutorial. I have not done anything with either.