On organizing knowledge

Some ideas on organizing knowledge

Ideas

Recommended sections for indexing knowledge on papers

• Abstract

• Keywords

• Required terms

• Problem setting

• Details

• Experiments

  • Experiments from the subject authors or the community

    • Configurations

    • Results

• Experiments from personal tests

  • Configurations

  • Results

• Related work/subjects

• Implementation reference

• Most relevant/Top references

What to do with information based on different criteria

I've been collecting a few techniques on knowledge indexing but it seems necessary to document when to use them.

Available techniques (curated)

• A) Cornell note taking system + spaced repetition; for remembering better

• B) Document things on this wiki; for practical knowledge, code or factual information.

• C) Feed into read later apps: For things that need to be processed.

• D) Practical recall + spaced repetition; for code usage and learning.

By change of the information over time

This criteria categorize knowledge depending on how quick the information is prone to change

Low

This type of information is useful to be stored because it's going to be useful for long time

Usage: Document it based on format based criterion.

Med

This type of information is known to change in midterm

Usage: Probably decompose in Low change form and discard the rest.

Quick

This type of information is most likely to be tight to events that produce information with high probability of change or short lived.

Usage: Don't even read it! Probably reconsider the value of the source that produced it.

Unknown

This type of information is based on premises that may or may not be prone to change over time.

Usage: Try to decompose the piece in more canon parts that can be better assessed and use it as its new type.

By scope of usage (and format)

Theory

Self-explanatory

Usage: Store specific questions of interest to A) and store canon factual bits in B)

Practice

Self-explanatory

Usage: Save reusable bits to B) and if it's really important D)

By its relationship with subjects

Factual

True statements about subjects.

Usage: Save the most useful level of it to B) and if the information involves complex relationships use A) as well

Analytical

Analysis made over factual information by subject expert

Usage: ID based factual, Try to find counterexamples and when the proper analysis is settled treat as the canon factual parts, reflect on the analysis.