The answer is told in one sentence: by unifying the collection of information and establishing labels.
Students who have studied big data and labeling system establishment have experience in this area, then point to the upper right corner to exit, or deeper guide us, but how you still have the following questions, do not visit then look down.
Do we all have these troubles:
1. We encountered a problem, this problem seems to be the other day somewhere, but because there is no record saved, and then desperately go, but nothing.
2. We summarized the 1st miserable situation of not being able to find the record, so then, we feel useful to save, but to use it, Murphy appeared again, because we save too many places, there are computer learning disk, Baidu cloud, email, word, Google bookmarks .... We forgot where to put it.
Experienced 1, 2 of the lessons, are said to suffer the longest experience, this time to learn smart, I met the impression of the notes, finally I put 1G or less files, no matter the mail, URL, Zhihu, WeChat public number articles can be put on the impression of the notes, on the cloud synchronization, the impression of the notes as my second brain, 1G or more to put the computer or Baidu cloud disk.
3. But the problem is that the information stored in Impression Notes is much more, and Impression Notes has only one level of directory, not multiple levels of directory, so it's still hard to find the information when it's categorized into more categories.
The problem is similar to why QQ has friend grouping and WeChat doesn't have friend grouping. Sometimes you remember something, and that something involves a person, but you forget what a person is called, and then you go through the entire WeChat address book list?
These 1-3 are all manifestations of our inability to quickly find the information and knowledge we have collected. Solving the problem of quickly finding the information we've collected and the knowledge we've organized can also be solved in layers.
Problem 1. How to quickly find the information we want?
For new information: find the web page, ask people, read books and other methods to quickly find, or if it is simple to practice to verify the information or knowledge (such as 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 is equal to how much, their own practice counting once out).
For the old information: such as we calculated 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 = 3628800, we when the notes stored up on the good, see the information or data, the same are stored up on the good, do not exist in the brain, easy to forget, to exist outside the brain of the external hard disk. When you want to use it, you can use your brain to call up the information on the external hard disk.
Question 2. How to save the information scattered everywhere how to do?
Integration to a piece, it is best to choose to store in the cloud, easy to read at all ends, such as dropbox \ cloud notes \ Baidu cloud \ Tencent cloud \ cloud album. Big brothers, now are 9012, should have been on the cloud synchronization it.
Questions 1 and 2 are prerequisites, question 3 How to quickly find saved information, is the focus of this article, 1 and 2 to help us filter most of the ineffective information, we have collected useful information, but how to find the information we want in the multi-information?
To answer question 3, we first need to understand how we started the thinking process, let's clarify a few concepts.
Scene: the visual drama, the scene refers to a certain time, space (mainly space) within the occurrence of a certain task action or because of the relationship between the characters constitute a specific picture of life. Simply put, scene = time + character + location + context.
Why do we need to find information? Out of the demand for the scene (product manager knowledge: no demand for the scene, YY out of the function is mostly waste). And the scene is specific, multi-information (time + character + location + context and other information).
The second and third terms are System 1 and System 2 in Thinking Fast and Slow?Let's do two questions first to understand these two terms:
(1) Driving a car and encountering a traffic light, what to do if the light is red?
(2)? There are four cards on the table with 1, 2, 3 and 4 written on them (as shown below): someone says: "All 1's have a 2 written on the back. "May I ask: How many cards do you have to turn over to verify if this statement is correct?
System 1 (fast thinking): It runs unconsciously and quickly, and the step-by-step arithmetic process is slow thinking, not much brain power, no feeling, and is completely under autonomous control. It can be said that the brain's autopilot state.
System 2 (Slow Thinking): It is highly varied and requires attention to be diverted to brain activities that require mental effort, such as complex arithmetic. System 2 operations are often associated with subjective experiences such as behavior, choice, and focus.
The way to think about problem 1 above is to invoke system 1 to think fast, and problem 2 is to start intervening in slow thinking when system 1 can't think fast enough to solve the problem, and slow thinking is cerebral and requires focus.
When we look for existing information or call knowledge, we are subject to the needs of the scene to call, and when we habitually according to the directory from top to bottom, from front to back, so do not think directly to find the words, call is fast thinking, most of the time is inefficient diligence.
Labeling: Labeling is the abstract classification and generalization of a particular group or object of a particular characteristic, and its value (labeled value) has the ability to be classified. So what kind of correlation is it with the object? Let's take another example:
Object/attribute origin color industry characteristics
Civet American white pet can change the prince
Li Bai Chinese yellow literary poet
Uniqlo Japanese white clothing basics
Multiple groups of labels can constitute a specific description of the information, and multiple groups of information labels can constitute a scene. Gave an example
There is a countryman who doesn't know much English, saw a car accident in the street, so he called the traffic police, but he can't say the word car accident, but he said this: two car " peng peng " people die ! ? The police according to the location also really came over to deal with the car accident!
Do you understand why Impression Notes doesn't have a multi-level catalog?
My answer is: in the case of a lot of data, in the case of forgetting an object, or not defining the object we are looking for clearly or not being able to define it, or forgetting the title (especially in the case of fancy titles), the way we organize the information by tagging the information, enriching the latitude of the information to find it, and then finding it in multiple tags is much quicker than the multi-level directory. This is because knowledge or nouns are generally abstract, while the problems we encounter are generally concrete, with scenarios. To quickly find useful knowledge, the best way we can do is to turn abstract knowledge into concrete scene images.
For example, we want to buy a NB birthday gift for boys in Taobao, if we directly search for the object of the birthday gift, it is estimated to brush a long time. But if we search based on the guy's favorite things like cool, punk, tech, texture, and then look for birthday gift relevance, the efficiency will be very much higher.
Similarly, we use the information we have collected to apply a little system 2 slow thinking, according to the scene to the information on the scene with the characteristics of the label, in the next encounter with the same scene and then call, the path diagram is as follows:
The result is that, if you give a piece of information on the 3 scene labels, we encountered the same scene, there is almost no such thing as can not find this piece of information, the efficiency of searching for the information will be greatly improved. this information efficiency will also be greatly improved.
We look back to the Internet data companies, in the face of massive information (big data) to find, google, Baidu did not use hao123 the way to establish a multi-level categorized directory site navigation, now hao123 estimates that very few new people use.
Multi-level directory classification and search keywords to find
Recall, I was used to why the top-down directory to find documents, because I grew up with this is the way to store things in categories, after the work of the information ready to increase, and categories and evolved into the world of phylums, phylums, phylums, families, genera, species and other multilevel classification methods, and at the same time, from childhood to the big and there is no sense of a global search, the scene labeling and technical support functions. and technical functional support.
Back to Impression Notes, why is there no multi-level catalog? Because it's more efficient to find it in a labeled way. Organize information in notebooks and notebook groups, so it's a 2-level directory, flat enough to record information by topic.
We label the information when we collect it, if we use Zhihu or WeChat to send articles to Impression Notes, we put the collected information into a notebook, and then review the collected articles every week and label them with scene characteristics.
2. Computer file information information to find
Mac: comes with Spotlight, and third-party software Alfred? Focused search, ultra-fast, simply good to not! And Apple can also tag the file archives.
Spotlight? In the search bar, you can type happy, and it will associate the most likely content you want to open (the title of an article in Impression Notes reads: Happy is a day, unhappy is a day, so it adds up to two days)
Windows: With the view, the search harmed me to develop a top-down directory structure to find information. Had I been using something like aggregated search on a mac, I would have picked up on this use of tags a long time ago. But there are third party apps for windows too.
Everything voidtools.com/
Everything is a file search program on Windows.
Just the first time you open it, it builds an index, and for subsequent uses, whether you have thousands of pieces of software or a few hundred gigabytes of hard disk, Everything retrieves the files you want in just a few seconds.
You can think: it's so powerful, it must be very big and take up a lot of memory, I just want to tell you, it's an installation file of less than 1M, and occupy less than 10M of memory, it is simply the conscience of the industry.
Wox ?getwox.com/
Wox is a Windows Express launcher helper.
You can quickly open system apps and settings, like Control Panel, Network settings.
You can quickly search for local files, and it supports fuzzy searches, for example, if you want to search the web, you can just type wl.
You can also use it for web search, translations, the everything plugin, and many more.
Summary
We start from the beginning of the school to the present is the information from the top down, according to the pyramid structure to organize, as well as the history of not big data to find the support, so that I forgot to add tags to the information, to build the scene associated with the information in this way, fortunately, the environment has changed, so that I learned a new path to search for information.
1. Save the information: no matter what information, if there is used for, 1G or less, first unified save to the cloud notes, focusing on features and scenarios according to the establishment of labels, 1G or more to put the computer cloud disk.
2. Organize information: Regularly categorize and organize information according to your life knowledge system, and internalize the useful ones into knowledge.
3. Search for information: Search for information by tag.
When your information is matched to the scene, you will find that life is full of information, and everything can be labeled to build an impression.
Reference:
1. Book: Daniel Kahneman "Thinking Fast and Slow"
2. Book: Matt. Ridley, "Bottom Up"
3. Books: Barbara Minto's "Pyramid Principle", Li Zhongqiu, "Structural Thinking Power"
4. Books: Xuanzhi Okuno, "How to Organize Information Effectively"
5. Websites: Zhihu, "Recommendations for Black Tech Tools for?Windows"