tags: #pkm #IMF links: IMF START, IMF MOC — Index
Setting up your Index Categories
Here’s why I chose the specific order of categories that I did.
000s - Index, Active, and MOCs I mean, this is where it all starts. If you keep any category it should be this one.
010s - Mind The mind is a big interest to me and is an integral part of anyone’s life. It’s also this high up because without our health, what do we have?
020s - Body The category for Body is next to Mind (maybe you’ll want to combine both categories into Mind-Body…)
030s - People, Places This just works here better than anywhere else. It sort of connects to Interests/Inputs.
040s - Interests Another word for “Interests” would be “Inputs”. These are things you might say I “consume” (or at least spend attention on).
050s - Quotes and Figurative Language These are any and all Brief Inputs and Outputs. It’s super important to me to have a commonplace book. This is where those awesome tidbits, idioms, analogies, and metaphors get mapped. Having Brief Inputs/Outputs in the 500s makes sense to me because it’s in the middle of everything. My Interests/Inputs are above it and my Writings/Outputs are below it.
060s - Writings These are my longer-form"Outputs", anything from online posts to essays to speeches.
070s - Journal Journal is next to Writings. These are private.
080s - Goals and Finances Goals and Finances are next to Journal because they are private too. Both Goals and Finances use the “command center” pre-frontal cortex aspect of our brain so they go together in their executive functioning.
090s - Knowledge Management and Lists Knowledge MGMT is next to the other MGMTs for Goals and Finances. It makes sense to me that this is last because it’s the most meta. It’s the category about organizing the organizing. It’s the structure-building and information management headspace.
100s - Ideas and Projects These sort of transcend my 10 main categories, but it’s essential they are close by. Ideas are fledging. Projects are ideas that I’ve actually decided to work on.