In which we find it is a good thing I no longer work in a library
Published at 8:06 pm on September 10th, 2009
Filed under: Dear Diary.
Looking at our overstuffed bookshelves the other day, I started idly thinking about more interesting ways to file our books. It’s fairly impossible to come up with an entirely useable filing system, because of the way the shelves are stacked three-deep, so I thought it might be more fun to come up with a hard-to-use but more creative system. Filing by number of syllables in title, for example.
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Keyword noise: books, filing, classification, reading.
Or, knowing where to find things
Published at 9:50 pm on October 15th, 2005
Filed under: Geekery, Technology.
My life is a disorganised mess, and so I’m always on the lookout for ways to sort that out. Most of them seem overly-complex, self-evidently simple, or just too much work. However, I did rather like the look of a link posted on Boing Boing recently: an article from a few years ago about the Noguchi filing system.
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Keyword noise: categorisation, file management, filing, My Documents, Noguchi, Noguchi filing system, organisation.
In which we discuss taxonomies
Published at 8:19 pm on September 7th, 2005
Filed under: Meta.
Yesterday’s post made me think about blogging slightly, because I found myself creating a new category just to put it in. I’m still not sure how I should be creating categories, so I wasn’t entirely sure if I was doing the right thing.
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Keyword noise: blogging, categorisation, filing, irony, tagging, taxonomy.