As we can observe on many internet applications like Blogger, Evernote, Wordpress or other CMSs, entries (posted) are grouped into tags. A basic connection is that an idea (entry) should belong to (a) context(s) (tag). This grouping method is really useful for readers to retrieve all entries belonging to a specific topic. Note that an idea varies its meanings along its different belonging contexts.
But, I need more than that. There are 2 main concerns about the limitation of current way.
Firstly, I need to link relevant ideas to each other. For example, "love" or "hate" can be in a same context of "relationship", but "fall in love", "have a date" just link to "love", not to "hate". So I want to see suggestions of "fall in love", "have a date" with "love" but without "hate", which is impossible if I place them all in the same "relationship". The better way as you can argue is to create a new context of "love", but indeed it is non-sense cause how about suggesting "love" when you find "fall in love" first. The relationship between "love" and "have a date" is not idea-context (child-parent) but an equal connection (like brothers) where we can access one via others. A link here is more simple than a context, we need 1 link per pair of connected ideas, or 1 context per ideas. (So weird that every idea turns to be a context)
Secondly, I need a hierarchical (tree-like) structure of contexts, as a context can belong to an outer context, as it exists so popular in our real world. (Evernote indeed implemented this idea)
SO, I conclude my idea in a sentence "An idea should be linked to relevant others and grouped into a context(s) which can belong to other contexts".
SO, I conclude my idea in a sentence "An idea should be linked to relevant others and grouped into a context(s) which can belong to other contexts".
Imagine our Evernote can implement my above ideas, so how can I improve my life. I believe it is very useful to study foreign vocabulary. I can save my foreign vocabulary to single entry, then link and group them. Now, whenever I think of an idea, it is really easier for me to develop my sentences, paragraphs and essays via linked entries as well as same-tag entries.
It's always an issue! We're struggling with organizing our ideas too, even in the simple job of organizing our blog posts. I have been labeling my blog posts on Blogger (kind of grouping them) and now I have a cloud of labels which turned out to be nearly useless.
ReplyDeleteMy wife uses WordPress which supports two types of grouping: Label and Category. "Label" is more "related", "links" whereas "Category" is more hierarchal, child-parent. This works quite well.
We had trouble in organising our photos. Finally we agreed to group them in chronological groups then in spatial ones. Some softwares (such as Microsoft Photo Gallery or Picasa) suggest to use tags (locations, people, topics) or rating, but I have't tried them.
I found out Evernote has released a new feature called 'note link' which is similar to the kind of connection I discussed above. Just a bit iritating that it is uni-derectional, not bi-directional, so for each pair of linked ideas, we have to create a 'note link' at each side pointing to its other end. Anyway, Evernote is really briliant to integrate every single innovation I can think of to store my knowledge out of my mind :)
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