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Posted at 2020-07-20
This article is not about a magical way on how to organize all ideas. I'm just telling what I have started doing. Recently I'm gradually moving to unifying all sorts of private information I possess and getting rid of things I don't need.
This is exactly why I started developing MycorrhizaWiki; I needed a wiki to store everything digitally with hypertext. Yes, I needed a wiki. People tried to convince me that a bunch of files would work as well. No, it wouldn't. Neither would note-taking apps like Evernote or Notion. Nevertheless, no wiki engine satisfied me.
I have moved some text documents I have found on my pc to the wiki and deleted the original files. Now, they are all in one place and I can access them from any device in my local network whenever I need to. Also, hypertext. How can you live without hypertext?
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I have collected quite a collection of papers, copybooks, sketchbooks and notebooks that have countless pages of things I have written there over the span of 6 or so years. It's usually doodles or random ideas that are not worthy mentioning. Sometimes it's things that can inspire me later. Often it's of archaelogical interest. Revisiting all piles of copybooks, destroying the unneeded, preserving the needed.
A month ago when I asked my father on organizing tips (he sure has similar problems), he told me that he cuts out cool things and sticks them to A4 sheets. He also showed me some of them. They looked impressive, not gonna lie. Today I decided to the same thing. I have cut several copybooks. Clean sheets go here, uninteresting sheets go here, interesting sheets are sorted by topics. My room is a mess right now.
After sorting sheets I cut out the most interesting fragments and stick them to an A4 sheet. I have done 10 already. It may not sound impressive but it actually took some time to get to this point.
Composed sheets are scanned using my super installation called Rig22.
More about Rig22 in my Telegram channel
I mount my phone in the rig and photoscan the sheets using the app called Notebloc. Out of all alternatives it seems to be the most sane. A subscriber recommended me the Google's one today but I think I'll just stick to Notebloc.
Then I upload pics directly from my phone to the wiki. Those 10 sheets are there already along with other scanned things.
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I still have tons of sheets waiting for me. Gotta go.
P.S. Please tell me what methods of organizations you use. They may be helpful to me.
