Interesting find by @chrisaldrich:

"It was fascinating to run across the memindex a productivity tool from the Wilson Memindex Co., advertised in a December 1906 issue of System: The Magazine of Business."

#MemIndex #43Folders #BulletJournal #HipsterPDA

https://boffosocko.com/2023/03/09/the-memindex-method-an-early-precursor-of-the-memex-hipster-pda-43-folders-gtd-basb-and-bullet-journal-systems/

@brennen Another idea I've been working with, sort of, is what I call #BOTI or "best of the interval".

It's kind of a #43folders kind of thing, but eternal. Alternatively, a round-robin databas / MRTG system (if you're sysadmin-aware, you may know these).

In any given interval, decide you're going to track the n most significant items. At the end of that interval, log/record those, and start the next interval. The best-of selection process continues for each subsequently larger interval period.

Intervals could be day, week, month, year, decade, etc.

What you should end up with is a reasonably small set of critically good or appropriate works.

Pick an n that works for you: 10, 100, 1,000, ... (Smaller is probably better, say 10--100.))

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