I tried many organization systems, including Johnny Decimal like PARA. And none of them worked for me.
As an ADHD person, I've found the best way for me is not put effort in organizing at all.
For that reason I've found tools like Logseq/Tana/Reflect does a great job. I just write in the journal and tag items accordingly if required, then if I need to write some long form document, I create specific pages for it.
Then search and backlinks are everything I need. My brain works better searching than browsing.
a1ff00|1 year ago
A structure loosely connected to past notes via a weekly 'cleaning/review' process in my "PKS", where I'll /search/ for tags, filenames, file contents and loosely link things together.
It's saved me countless hours, but more importantly its drastically reduced analysis paralysis and kept me focused on the most important thing -- writing.
Invictus0|1 year ago
cacophany?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cacophony
unknown|1 year ago
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kossTKR|1 year ago
I personnaly just have a huge file with various notes, text, todos or whatever for each year divided into days, then i can just scroll up through days, or search to find out what i did and what day - some days have nothing, some have lots. Some topics / projects get their own file.
niteshpant|1 year ago
Agreed - I looked at the website for a hot second, got overwhelmed and immediately closed it
Consistency is key for a good organization system. Unfortunately, consistency in such manners of life isnt our forte
bicx|1 year ago
I find that if I have to organize or categorize entries in a system, entries just don’t get logged at all.
lardissone|1 year ago
Only bad thing is their mobile app, it's so bad.
znpy|1 year ago
anyway, here is what's has been working for me:
for physical stuff (documents, printouts etc): a dumb file organizer box, one of those where you can hang those hanging manila folders. and of course a few such folders. I bought fifty such folders some years ago, have used about half so far?
for digital stuff: a simple mediawiki installation. it's hosted at home and it's not accessible from the public internet. the visual editor makes it low-friction to edit, the categories system works well enough, a page can belong to more than one category and there's always a search function that works well enough.
the nice thing about mediawiki is that you can upload and embed images, you can link to other systems (like files in nextcloud) and you can upload whole files and link to them from various pages.
asystole|1 year ago
lardissone|1 year ago
The custom object types is great, I missed that feature from Anytype in other tools.
The only drawback is that they didn't implemented an import from other platforms tool. And I have all my history and notes on Logseq now.
lardissone|1 year ago
airstrike|1 year ago
Wow, I'm sold.
mohaba|1 year ago
jonaias|1 year ago
We've received great feedback from ADHD users about how it has helped them throughout their lives
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doomnuts|1 year ago