Reduction from ACCESS (Atlas, Calendar, Cards, Extras, Sources, and Spaces) ACE (Atlas, Calendar, Efforts) attempts at having a holistic system to manage Knowledge & Action equally
Around 1989, Richard Saul Wurman (founder of the TED Conference) wrote “Information Anxiety” (I got the original hardcover version linked here 244).
Wurman argues that there are five ways to organize information.
- Location
- Alphabet
- Time
- Category
- Hierarchy (the original refers to this as “Continuum”, but that’s not as catchy)
Because linking I felt that the LATCH model leaves out “relevance” or “relatedness”. “Hierarchy” != “relatedness”.
So I figured out a different way to represent the core ways we organize—and remember—things: STIR.
- Space
- Time
- Importance
- Relatedness
- Atlas is for the SPACE of knowledge and ideas
- Calendar is for moments in TIME
- Efforts are for projects of IMPORTANCE
And the “R” in STIR is for the links we make between them all!
