Ask HN: How do you organize information: by type or context?

Re:Ask HN: How do you organize information: by type or context? by AnimalMuppet on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:32PM (#24734137)

I'd probably have a folder called "humans-brain", and within that a file called "quotes". I care more what the information is about, and less what the meta-data about the data is (what type of info it is). Why? Because I more often want to find information about a topic than I do to find information of a particular type.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize information: by type or context? by brslv on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:19PM (#24734552)

This is exactly what I'd do as well. But let's think in a more broader terms. For example in my house we organize good by type. Fruits go in one place, meat in another, milk and milk products in third etc. But, isn't a context-oriented organization more reasonable? Food for breakfast goes in one place, food for dinner in another etc.?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize information: by type or context? by dvxvd on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:46PM (#24734757)

Food is real and has physical appearance.. digital object they are virtual. So, you need to develop virtual organisation.. unfortunately don't know how ;)

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize information: by type or context? by simonblack on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:42PM (#24735515)

C'mon now.

You've never had a bowl of breakfast cereal at 10PM?

<grin>

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