[[Topics]] ## Notes - [[5 bullets for planning]] - [[A good idea is of no use to you unless you can find it]] - [[A good shop involves a lot of cannibalism]] - [[A great storage solution isnt about the ability to put things inside of boxes]] - [[Always be knolling]] - [[Always be prepared]] - [[Am I being cheap? Absolutely! That's the point. That gives the background artists more time to make something else.]] - [[A simple way to organize your life]] - [[BDD for your stuff]] - [[Be merciless with your scraps]] - [[Categorization]] - [[Charting for nurses - How to understand a patient's chart]] - [[Code is a collection of ideas]] - [[Collect resources that may be useful. Routinely organize resources to keep them useful.]] - [[Create a repository of knowledge for all those who need it]] - [[Curate what you hoard - then it's not hoarding.]] - [[Default to topic searching over content searching]] - [[De-organizing stuff is like walking downhill to school knowing you're gonna have to walk uphill to get home]] - [[Don't label something based on what it is]] - [[Don't make it more intellectual. Make it more intuitive.]] - [[Don't think, know]] - [[Finding organizational inspiration and discarding things you need later - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[From purpose, plan backwards to create an efficient path forwards]] - [[George Carlin's digital filing system for his notes]] - [[George Carlin's foolproof system for organizing ideas]] - [[Having a crap ton of stuff means you have a ton of crap]] - [[Having all that stuff visually accessible as well as organizationally accessible is really for the problem solving that needs to happen for that shop]] - [[Heijunka]] - [[Heijunka box]] - [[How my storage system works - Laura Kampf]] - [[Ideas should be effortless to capture and impossible to lose]] - [[If I didn't have it right now, where would I look for it?]] - [[If it's neat to look at, I'll use it more.]] - [[If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a useful form.]] - [[I'm going to be less inclined to pull something out of an ugly box than a beautiful box]] - [[Intentional task batching affords far less opportunities for distractions]] - [[It's easier to move slices than the make slices]] - [[It's hard to have clarity on what you're prioritizing, if you don't even know what you're prioritizing]] - [[It's interesting how quickly stuff turns to crap the moment you stop paying attention to it]] - [[It's so easy when you have a ton of stuff to lose track of where it is. Once you lost track of where it is... You've lost it.]] - [[It will sit in pockets that they've made themselves]] - [[I've written songs where I don't like this whole song, but I like these couple of lines, so I might recycle them and use them in something later]] - [[Knowing conceptual structures makes them useful. Connecting them makes them powerful.]] - [[Labels are only necessary when something isn't obvious or intuitive]] - [[Lists give rhyme or reason to any project - big or small]] - [[Low-frequency tools. Having them is not enough. You have to be able to find them when you need them. And low-frequency tools can suffer from cleverness, at least in my shop.]] - [[Make the things you're most likely to need the most accessible]] - [[Make things easy to find, hard to forget, and impossible to misunderstand]] - [[My system is under thinking - so it's more intuitive.]] - [[Optimize for data preservation. Avoid losing things from disorganization or from data corruption.]] - [[Organization in the material world is a means to reduce visual stimulation]] - [[Organization is care]] - [[Organization isn't a thing you do]] - [[Organization is transformation of mental mapping of ideas into material space]] - [[Organized as you gather. Tidy as you go.]] - [[Organize stuff based on the first order of retrievability around the collective philosophy of work for everyone using the space]] - [[Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable]] - [[Smallest parts are the hardest to keep track of]] - [[Stacking ammo]] - [[Store stuff that speak to both practicality and imagination]] - [[Structure must be earned]] - [[Studio progress boards]] - [[Stuff]] - [[Stuff becomes crap the moment you fail to find it]] - [[Task batching]] - [[Technical debt - Improving the production pipeline]] - [[The best way to store materials - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[The first order of retrievability]] - [[The goal is if I died, there's information about everything!]] - [[The organization of things is, is to put things into boxes.]] - [[The setup of my mill is like a fighter pilot's cockpit. Everything I need, the first order of retrievability, is within quick grasp.]] - [[The storage method speaks to both practicality and imagination]] - [[The truth about making cartoons]] - [[Tips for organizing reference materials - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[Toolkits]] - [[To organize your thoughts, you must first see your thoughts]] - [[Visual control]] - [[We can't run a marathon without mile markers]] - [[What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important]] - [[When to discard scrap materials - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[When to store a project - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[Within the philosophy of storage, there's always more room on the z-axis]] - [[You must be the best archivist of yourself]] - [[Zettelkasten]] ## See also - [[Self-understanding]]