Category Archives: PIM

Comment on Chris Aldrich’s very comprehensive description of the “new boil” of note-taking.
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I had to clear out my workplace. It was quite interesting to revisit the digital and physical traces of so many years. It started with little slips of paper, to capture data from telephone calls or other little notes, piled up in a drawer. They were best simulated by plain text files.
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Cleaning up my repositories, showed me that my bookmark collection has lost much of its relevance. If the links aren’t digested right away, they won’t be useful later, either. Read more about my filing and cleanup strategies.
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For syncing my office and home materials, I use a very primitive method, but it preserves me a sense of space, and it helps me keeping a work-life balance.
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“Different people seem to have different levels of task switching that is tolerable or even enjoyable.” And these different people exhibit very different styles of multitasking, some of which seem plausible to me.
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Bold, italics, and underline each fulfill a distinct role, and underline is ideal to indicate all kinds of relationships or links. But unfortunately, underline is underused. Why is it so unpopular? Perhaps because it is the markup of teachers.
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