Mastering Productivity Vol 2 – Information Reference System

This course is part of a larger series. The first course you should take is Information Inboxes.

I’ve gotten more requests for this course than any other course.

I have been working on it for over 5 years.

This course will answer the question of where to put the paper/digital file.

There is a special technical word for this type of organization…it’s called an ontology.

There is a system of organizing ideas.

The way a supermarket organizes its food and other products is an example of an Ontology. Amazon has millions of products in various categories. The Dewey Decimal system organizes hundreds of millions of books by category.

Many people don’t have a system for organizing their own personal information.

It has been requested by many people over the years.

The course contains a hierarchy that has been custom developed and tested for your use to handle all the major areas of your life, as well as all those things that you would consider Miscellaneous or uncategorizable.

There are four areas.

1. Your career.

2. Your life.

3. Your relationships.

4. Your health.

Managing your home or apartment, your finances, technology, property, vehicles, education, and other things are related to personal life.

The system has hundreds of folder ans subfolders.

The research that went into this should also be mentioned.

Over 100 different organizing systems have been created by other people. I created an organizing system to handle the best from each area of your life.

The creator of the system spends a lot of time in that area of their life, so certain areas will be very well organized. You will not find that here. The system is well balanced.

This system will give you a lot of clarity on your life, as a side effect.

The way you organize your information is a reflection of how you organize your mind. Mental clarity comes from having a well organized mind.

When you have a well organized mind, you can handle a lot more coming at you, take one new project, have 100 different things going on, and handle it easily when someone else is pulling their hair out.

It gives you peace of mind. One of the biggest problems with creating a system on your own is the unknown unknown.

If you forget something or misplace something that will haunt you later, you have to re-do your whole system and reorganize everything.

For those of you who have finished the book. Information Inboxes

Everything, digital and paper, is captured into inboxes. There are files on your computer, paper, mail, and email. This course includes a weekly or monthly practice where you sort each inbox into it’s final location in your information reference system.

The system is so revolutionary because it doesn’t force you to immediately organize everything you touch. It is more efficient and less of a hassle to process all your information in batches, instead of having to deal with it on a daily basis.

The system works in parallel on your computer and file cabinet system.

It is as easy to find a printed or digital file as it is to find a digital one.

Oh, and one other thing.

There are courses coming that will apply the same methodology to organizing your objects.

This system is also running in parallel with that one. A system that will organize all your objects is what you are getting.

To understand a little more.

There are only two ways to organize things. There are two kinds of property.

Intellectual property is information. Even if you never file, everything you create is copyrighted. Some intellectual property is licensed to you, like this course, but you don’t own it in the same way you own the notes you take on it.

There is a physical property. A big object is the objects all around you. The earth is large.

Anything you want to organize is in one of the two categories. Books, CDs, hard drives, and pieces of paper are the middle ground. They’re technically physical objects, but they’re mostly used to represent symbols that you can see as a person. It is possible to use a bad book as a door stop or paper weight, but that is not the primary use.

Originally, this course was only going to cover digital information, but it has been expanded to cover all types of physical objects that only serve as vehicles for symbols, like books, your mail, and papers you print out.

The course will change your life. It will give you a sense of mastery over your information that you can’t get any other way, and a sense of clarity because not only will your external and digital places be so much better organized, but your own mind and ideas will all fall into their natural and proper place.

I would bring this with me if I had to go back to before I knew anything about accelerated learning, how to be organized or how to be productive. It is that valuable.

I will see you inside if you enjoy the course.

Timothy