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On November 11, 2005 11:33 pm Andrew Lowe was like: |
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> A wiki is one of the first things to come to mind. I'm contemplating |
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> setting a wiki up on my trusty little firewall/email/squid/dns.... |
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> server, scanning the clipping, creating an entry in the wiki, placing, |
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By all means consider using your 'puter to help with your filing. The wiki |
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might well be a good idea. However please don't underestimate the power of |
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your memory. |
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One technique that I sometimes find useful is to collect things based on |
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criteria that are apparently irrelevant to what I am doing, but appeal to the |
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senses. For instance I might, in your situation, sort the material based on |
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arbitrary criteria, such as "Can I see an indoor plant in this photo?" or |
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"Does this text mention the eating of food?" by remembering one thing about |
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the document you stand a good chance of remembering the other things, and you |
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will also stand a good chance of remembering where you put it. |
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Decorate the files and boxes too. The decorations don't necessarily have to |
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be relevant. Wallpaper scraps, colourful pictures of animals, unusual |
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handwriting - whatever it takes to get the stuff through your visual cortex |
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or your fingers and to get your memory working the way it wants to. |
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Of course different techniques may work better for you. Go to the library and |
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get a book or two on improving your memory, clutter reduction, whatever. Use |
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the ones that help and ditch the ones that don't. Find what works for you. |
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Then, if you still need to, set up an electronic database that thinks the way |
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you like to. |
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Robert |
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Robert Persson |
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"Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." |
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(US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) |
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