I hope people won't mind if I indulge in a completely off topic question. The reason I ask it here is because I figure the kind of people who are using mnemosyne are the kind of people who are likely to have dealt with the same problem that I'm having now.
Basically I want pick people's brain as to how they organise their thoughts, ideas etc. So far I have found myself just writing stuff in text files. Sometimes as mini-essays saved under a particular title in their own file, sometimes as individual paragraphs within files containing a broad selection of "musings" related to a general topic. With more specific thoughts such as ideas or questions I want to investigate, I've created text files such as ideas-website.txt ideas- programs.txt or questions-arthistory.txt and then simply add new questions or ideas to the lists as they pop into my head. This works well enough as a basic hierarchical structure, but of course shows it's limitations when you start hitting a certain volume. It's difficult to compare and contrast stuff, and to organise thoughts that don't quite fit the categories, in particular as a one-sentence question or idea gets added to and becomes a paragraph and then an essay it gets quite difficult to manage it within this structure. So I was wondering how other people managed this. Do you have a clever filing system to manage this? Do you not bother? Or maybe you use mind- mapping style software? Or twist some non-"thought-organising" specific filing software to match your requirements? Right now I'm thinking if I could add some "tag" feature to these .txt files I'd be happy. Then I could sort and search and display according to the tags I added to the text. I've taken a quick look into some mind-mapping software, but it often seemed like I had to learn some whole new way of doing things in order to fit what the software could do, but not the other way round. So I'm very interested to hear what people think and if you have any tips or recommendations. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
