Worklab 2023: "The Art of Organizing Yourself and Your Data"

Update 2024-10-17: sketchnote and captions by Sacha Chua

In June 2023, I got invited to give a short talk about local file management at the Worklab 2023 which was organized by mur.at. This time, I used a different idea and talked about a few general concepts and ideas related to this topic. A few things I took from my PIM lecture.

The talk was part of the session "Desire to collect - Tools & Roadmap".

Fortunately, the talk was recorded and got published in October 2023 (44min):

Here are the main topics of my talk with some links:

• Vocabulary Problem (1987)
  • naming things in general and files in particular is difficult
• Information retrieval using navigation and search
• Mental models/coginitive models
• The Desktop Metaphor
• Strict hierarchies in the real world versus the non-hierarchical opportunities in virtual environments
• Issues with hierarchies and why they don't work in many cases
• My research focus (PhD, blog)
• The file management method I developed which also introduced TagTrees
  • Visit the online-demo
• How to use tags: category tags vs. content-describing tags
• Orders of order
  • Everything Is Miscellaneous
• Bonus for fun: Tagging Files With Windows 10

Sacha Chua created awesome sketchnotes for that talk:

Its licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution. She also published captions for the video recording file.