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Productivity-systems desiderata

First considered December 16, 2024.

First published December 16, 2024.

Status: Very unfinished.

The initial prompt

There are people out there who ask “Why do I need a personal wiki when my collection of text files are fine”?

It is not assumed that a system will revolve around a single program such as Obsidian or Emacs’ org-mode, although many people quite reasonably swear by org-mode and put their entire lives into it.

Here’s what to look for in a good system.

Desiderata

• When you search for a thing you’re sure is in your system, you can find it easily.
• If you need to pause a task while you wait for a blocker to complete (say, someone who knows more needs some time to get back to you), you have a way to write down the incomplete state of the task and get back to it easily and quickly later.
• If you want to store images or other files in your system (some pictures can be worth at least a thousand words each) to illustrate a point, you can, easily.
• If you’re wondering what you can do now (say you’re trying to figure out what to do next), then your system will be able to surface things you can start and bury things you can’t or shouldn’t start yet.

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