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Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : The Nature Of Tags - 0 views

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tags tag hierarchy

shared by Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Tags multiply like rabbits!
  • Tags make items look like they're multiplying like rabbits
  • the ability to assign more than 1 tag to an item
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  • becomes a cognitive quagmire when it comes time to get a grip on the scope of your data
  • ramplant multiplication of items showing up in multiple tag-groups can make a mountain out of a mole hill of data
  • Tags don't actually help you understand your data better
  • hierarchies visualize degrees of separation
  • in Tagsonomies, all neighbors are created equal
  • If what you're looking for doesn't exist in the tag or the intersection of tags you're currently looking at, you're out of luck
  • Without a visualization tool, tags are just as dumb if not dumber than hierarchies
  • 2 kinds of relationships
  • tags are either Related or Not related
  • Tagsonomies are too flexible for their own good
  • Some of the MIT Haystack studies asked users to "tag" URLs they found on the web with keywords
  • many of the users began to feel like the whole process pointless
  • they find it pointless to apply the keywords after a while
  • Tags are too generic
  • The notion of "related tags" is too generic
  • Tags are unable to store important metadata about both our data and the relationships that govern and structure that data
  • Tagged data sets quickly explode beyond human ability to extract narrative and scope from the data
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : How The Cookie Crumbles Part I - 0 views

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  • hierarchies has been the designated one size fits all solution to all our organizational needs
  • we break our semantically pure hierarchies by overstretching their bounds
  • we end up with messy hierarchies that are unusable and unmaintainable
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  • Stuff I need access to DOES NOT HAPPEN TO EQUAL the stuff at the top of the tree
  • Case study: Katie's OmniOutliner
  • http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
  • The following are images taken from: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : Vision - 0 views

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  • Custom Attribute
  • Custom Attribute
  • The Chandler Knowledge Worker
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  • Information is the substance of their work and more information is the output of their work: Research, proposals, priorities, direction and decisions?
  • knowledge is gained and shared
  • how people actually work
  • (too) many interesting things
  • There's something wrong with the way data
  • doesn't flow between the tools we use to manage, process, organize our information
  • software should be modeled around information
  • technological barriers
  • too much copying and pasting
  • false assumption that information management tasks are binary
  • false assumption underlying most productivity software that information and the organizational structures needed to manage that information are essentially static
  • A lone email languishes for a long time in your Inbox and then all of a sudden, blooms into an unending thread which dies down
  • the thread is revived and mushrooms into a full scale project
  • Three weeks later
  • you barely give it a thought
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08
       
      I tend to find myself involved in: at one extreme, very many varied small tasks, which are recorded/archived then intentionally forgotten; and at the other extreme: projects about which thought extends months or even years later. Between the two extremes: for me, things are hazy.
  • the same workflow hiccups show up again and again
  • an information management environment with built-in workflows that mirror what people hack together
  • three basic workflows everybody seems to construct for themselves, regardless of what tools they use
  • varying degrees of complexity and automation
  • These three workflows however, need to exist independently of each other
  • no complicated rule-builder
  • push-button interface
  • always assume a need for iteration and change over time
  • Peeling the Onion
  • Allow Organization to Change and Flow
  • the entire gamut of organizational affordances
  • Tagging
  • Filing, Rules, et cetera
  • won't ever be asked to decide between them
  • turn it into a Custom Attribute
  • Add semantics to a Tag
  • Custom Attribute
  • Drag a Tag or a Cluster to the sidebar
  • a Cluster: a way to thread items together, a way to reflect dependencies
  • Group collaboration systems exist in parallel with personal communication tools
  • does not scale down to work for small groups
  • the majority of the significant emails we send are sent while still in a draft-state
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08
       
      This is very thought-provoking.
  • Future
  • a well-defined end-user information model
  • by modeling the user experience around how people work today and the substance of that work, we can be more than just another software tool and instead aspire to be a system for information management: A smarter way to work. A better environment for collaboration
  • We want Chandler to be able to talk to other applications
  • As we make Chandler's end-user information model richer, the number of interesting applications to talk to will increase. This is one of the many areas where we hope that people in the community will help increase Chandler's ability to talk to other applications
Graham Perrin

[chandler-users] Collections: Calendar view: presenting and setting aside overlays [was... - 0 views

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004250 confusion misinterpretation

shared by Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08 - Cached
  • collection icon resembles any/all of the following: * a mobile phone * a clipboard * an envelope, in flight, dropping downwards Anyone: please, what _is_ that icon?
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08
       
      The icon with four interpretations from one person is in fact a fifth thing: a 'tag'!
Graham Perrin

Chandler Wiki : Is Search The Panacea - 0 views

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shared by Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08 - Cached
  • In our euphoria over the success and surprising usefulness and usable-ness of search and tagging, are we passing by a chance to not only make information accessible and useful but fundamentally alter the way we use information to make decisions.
  • we did not come all this way to end in Search, the biggest leap in information technology is yet to come
  • Search doesn't solve many of the biggest problems we face in our still nascent yet rapidly growing information-centric, information overloaded age
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  • how do we grok, wrap our heads around all this data? (NOT just succeed in finding stuff in it.)
  • Search is not a solution to information management. It's one piece of the puzzle.
Graham Perrin

[chandler] Index of / - ViewVC - 0 views

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