Getting Organized in the Google Era
by Douglas C. Merrill and James A. Martin
Google's former CIO on organizing information with the brain's limits in mind: search over filing, offload memory, color and context. Dated tools, sound principles.
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you want brain-based principles for digital organization.
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Three things you will actually use
- The brain is bad at storage; outsource it.
- Search beats filing.
- Context cues memory.
Do this first
Stop filing and start searching for one week.
Our verdict
Brain-based digital organizing.
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