In 2009, I was recruited by The Ineluctable Cassidy to be an event planner for the local ASIS&T group she was leading. We had a pretty punishing schedule of four events per academic year, and planning involved mailing lists, searching out event locales, creating a flyer, sending out emails, arranging refreshments, etc. These were a …
Category Archives: Information Management
On being an information packrat — Part IV
One of the great things about a good productivity system is that it contains decision points where you can decide to keep or dismiss outdated tasks. If “buy Christmas cards” is on your list, and it’s April, then you can probably safely delete that task and not miss it. Not so with information. Dismissing old …
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Robertson Davies on Useful Knowledge
In one of his early novels, a Robertson Davies character delivers a little speech that impressed me so much at the time that I’ve delightedly trotted it out whenever the subject of information management rears its tedious head.
On being an information packrat – Part III
The first post in this series looked at information hoarding, and the second looked at mindsets that could help me reframe the problem. So, with those things in mind, what can I do in the heat of battle to help me stem the information flowing from my web browser and onto my computer?
On being an information packrat – Part II
Knowing that I have a tendency to hoard information, what can I do to help myself? This post will talk about some big-picture mindsets that may help me to reframe the problem so that, looked at from this new perspective, it isn’t a problem any longer (or it’s a smaller problem that causes less pain). …
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On being an information packrat
Lord Peter Wimsey remarked that “Books…are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with ’em, then we grow out of ’em and leave ’em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.” (The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club) I see the truth of that whenever I scan my bookshelves, my stacks of CDs, my files …
Storing Nuggets of Information
The following are comments I left on the high-fun personal blog PigPog. Back in 2005, Michael wrote a post on storing and retrieving nuggets of information. This invited a couple of unedited brain-dumps from your Humble Correspondent. I’m posting them here because my original links to the post were broken after a site redesign and …
Mark Hurst’s “Bit Literacy”
Mark Hurst’s book Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload attacks a problem that, of all people, my Alexander Technique therapist mentioned to me today. She said that evolution has granted our bodies numerous ways to deal with few or no calories, but no way — except obesity — to deal …
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