Organising
See also Communication, Thinking, Politics, Platforms, Startups#Management, Technology.
a big mess. to reorder and fx with others
Knowledge
See also Wiki, Semantic web, Open data, Thinking
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_society
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_literacy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_management
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_science
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_organization_system
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_and_information_science
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_vocabulary
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)
- How to focus in the age of distraction
- Domain Knowledge or a Lack Thereof
- I Fucking Google Everything
- MIT: Haystack Group - Research on Information Access, Analysis, Management, and Distribution Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to make it easier for people to collect, organize, find, visualize, and share their information. We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers blending approaches from human-computer interaction, social computing, databases, web infrastructure, information retrieval, artificial intelligence and the semantic web.
Personal information management
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_management - practice and the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use personal information items such as documents (paper-based and digital), web pages and email messages for everyday use to complete tasks (work-related or not) and fulfill a person’s various roles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager - facilitates the recording, tracking, and management of certain types of "personal information".
Notes
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA - dead tree media
See Writing#Software and services, Vim
Evernote
Extensions
- Chrome: Evernote Web Clipper
Software clients
- http://www.geeknote.me/ - cli
- http://nevernote.sourceforge.net - NixNote
Other
- RedNotebook is a modern journal. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds. You can also format, tag and search your entries. RedNotebook is Free Software under the GPL.
- MindRaider is personal notebook and outliner. It aims to connect the tradition of outline editors with emerging technologies. MindRaider mission is to help you in organization of your knowledge and associated web, local and real world resources in a way that enables quick navigation, concise representation and inferencing.
- KeepNote is a note taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. With KeepNote, you can store your class notes, TODO lists, research notes, journal entries, paper outlines, etc in a simple notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting, images, and more. Using full-text search, you can retrieve any note for later reference.
- TreeSheets - Free form data organizer. The ultimate replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases. Suitable for any kind of data organization, such as Todo lists, calendars, project management, brainstorming, organizing ideas, planning, requirements gathering, presentation of information, etc. It's like a spreadsheet, immediately familiar, but much more suitable for complex data because it's hierarchical. It's like a mind mapper, but more organized and compact. It's like an outliner, but in more than one dimension. It's like a text editor, but with structure.
- Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day.
Outliners
Fargo
- Fargo is a simple idea outliner, notepad, todo list, project organizer. Fargo files are stored in Dropbox. We only need to access a single sub-folder folder. We do not need access to your entire Dropbox (we don't want the responsibility), or any of your existing files. You can easily disconnect if you don't want to continue using Fargo.
Workflowy
- https://workflowy.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSmbnaPZVHE
- Everything Is a List - "The genius of WorkFlowy, the note-taking app that changed the way I organize my life."
- http://colemanfoley.quora.com/Mind-Mapping-with-WorkFlowy
Checkvist
- Checkvist - Minimalist keyboard driven online outliner and task manager for teams and individuals. Capture your ideas and notes, create checklists and plans, share with colleagues, and get everything done — together.
Outliner of Giants
- Outliner of Giants is a feature rich outline processor designed to support the creation and management of large corpuses of information, such as those generated by students, researchers, writers and project managers.
Reference management
See also Comms#Social bookmarking, Learning#Citation management
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_management_software
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software
- list.it is a simple, free and open-source note-keeping tool to help you manage the tons of little information bits you need to keep track of each day.
Information mapping
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map
- http://drichard.org/mindmaps/
- http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
- http://www.xmind.net/
- Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too. The Exploratree web resource has been developed by Futurelab and emerged out of our work on the Enquiring Minds project. It provides a series of ready-made interactive 'thinking guides' or 'frameworks' which can support students' projects and research.
Tools
- FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
- SharedMind is a collaborative version of FreeMind mind mapping software.
Knowledge domain mapping
See also Visualisation#Semantic Web and Linked Data
Archivism
Library
Collaboration
See Politics#Collectivism, Thinking#Groups
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_(decision_making)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_design
"challenging sensitively"
Cooperative
- Cultivate.Coop is an online hub for pooling knowledge and resources on cooperatives. It is a space to collect free information for those interested in cooperatives and where people can build useful educational tools for the co-op community.
- http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html - 'The dotCommunist Manifesto'
Communication
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle - helps avoid point scoring
Nonviolent communication
- Thoughts <-> feelings <-> needs
- Observation -> feelings -> needs -> request
- Don't try to be perfect, rather progressively less stupid (anything worth doing is worth doing poorly)
Video
- Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication - Online Training Course - 1.5m
- Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg - CNVC.org - 20m
- CNVC.org - Session #1 - Introduction - Nonviolent Communication Training Course - 1h
- Nonviolent Communication Workshop - Marshall Rosenberg (2000) - 3h
- Nonviolent Communication Training Course - Marshall Rosenberg - CNVC.org - 9h!
- Marshall Rosenberg NVC Role Play / Marshall Rosenberg demonstrates Nonviolent Communication
- Marshall B. Rosenberg - How do you talk to yourself about making mistakes
- Marshall B. Rosenberg - Compassionate Communication with Trauma
- Marshall Rosenberg: How to prepare People for Your Weirdness
non-rosenburg;
- Parenting with Nonviolent Communication (NVC), part 2
- Naturalizing NVC
- Kelly Bryson, Non Violent Communication. NVC.The Langage of Love.
to check;
- Alan Seid, Cascadia training. Also,The Communication Dojo.
Debate
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_theory
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_map
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue#Structured_dialogue
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_policy_debate
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_ethics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_ethics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeasible_reasoning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentially_contested_concepts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicative_rationality
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogical_analysis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_dialectics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_persuasion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulmin_Model_of_Argument
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_arguments
Structured debate
Negotiation
Safe spaces
Consensus
See anarchism, horizontalism, etc. Politics
- Just do it - The Title of This Film was Reached by Consensus - Climate Camp
- Consensus (Occupy Wallstreet)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder_model - dutch government
Talking circle
TRIZ
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ - 'theory of inventive problem solving'
Anti-patterns
Technology
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_software
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software
Project management
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_project_management
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_software
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_project-management_software
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(management)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizing_(management)
Process
Committee
chair, sec, clerk
Agile
- http://agilemanifesto.org/
- http://moreagilemanifesto.org/
- http://darkagilemanifesto.org/
- http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/
- http://martinjeeblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/what-is-programmer-anarchy-and-does-it-have-a-future/
- http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com/michael_feathers_blog/2013/07/flipping-assumptions-with-programmer-anarchy.html
services;
Scrum
XP
(two [heads] are better than one, do the techno man)
Lean
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_construction
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_laboratory
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_higher_education
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_services
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Startup
Scale
Open source development
- http://blip.tv/tech-love-live/osb09-donnie-berkholz-assholes-are-killing-your-project-2464449
- http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/how-to-protect-yourhow-to-protect-your-open-source-project-from-poisonous-people
DevOps
PRINCE2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product-based_planning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_control
- QA
Other
Task management
Todo lists
"the BEST to-do list is the one you use"
- http://sourceforge.net/directory/business-enterprise/todo-lists/language%3Aphp/
- https://github.com/flosse/listOfToDoManagers
Org mode
Emacs based
Getting Things Done
Kanban
Pivotal Tracker
Trello
Other
- http://www.projectlibre.org/ - oss ms project
- http://strikeapp.com/ - v. simply todo service
- Holly - Task tracking for nerds. Holly is TODO lists with an interface for the tech-savvy. If you aren't into code and text editors this will make you cry.
- DropTask - Visual Task Management for Individuals and Teams
- TaskFreak! - Original is a simple but efficient web based task manager written in PHP. Getting Things Done based.
RTM, etc.
untried;
- https://www.blossom.io/ - $, lean kanban
other
- http://www.lengrand.fr/2012/10/my-almost-perfect-setup-to-stay-focused/
- http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/questions/787/56.html
- http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/28465017852/productivity-porn
- http://spotbloq.blogspot.de/2012/08/true-do-idea.html
- http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/todont.html
uncons, bar/foo camps, cons, etc.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration
- http://questhub.io/ - social
Time management
Pomodoro
Time sheet
Sleep
See Health
Calendar
- Baïkal offers ubiquitous and synchronized access to your calendars and address books over CalDAV and CardDAV. Baïkal implements the current IETF recommendation drafts of these industry standards for centralized calendar and address book collections.
- calcurse is a text-based calendar and scheduling application. It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks. A configurable notification system reminds user of upcoming deadlines, and the curses based interface can be customized to suit user needs. All of the commands are documented within an online help system.
- Khal is a CLI (console), CalDAV based calendar program, allowing syncing of calendars with a variety of other programs on a host of different platforms.
Event management
- http://frab.github.io/frab/ - conference
Open Space
Ticketing
Room booking
Travel
Tools
- noprocrast - A gem to stop you procastinating. Noprocast automatically adds and removes items from your /etc/hosts, rendering addictive websites useless. Ruby.
- workmode - command line tool for blocking sites to be more productive