I have a problem organizing Work-In-Progress. While plenty of my work is electronic (easy - just close the folder and it’s handy to open again) a signifigant portion consists of large (11”X17” up to 30”X42”) sheafs of heavy drawings, and an associated stack of reference books, notebooks, reference drawings, and other cumbersome objects.  read more »

New Scientist has a piece in this week’s newsletter on using the “semantic web” to get organized, focusing on a site with which I’m unfamiliar called Twine.

It’s in invite-only Beta now, but might be worth checking out.

Key grafs :

Twine uses a semantic approach to act as a personal organiser, bookmark service, and a social network combined.  read more »

I really like the idea of Backpack (http://backpackit.com) where you can have one page showing a group of related files, to-do lists, and date-based notes (messages). I do not really use writeboard or sharing very much.

I would love to mimic this idea on my local machine (OSX Leopard) so I’ve been trying to brainstorm how best to accomplish it. My initial simple solution is to create a directory where all the related files will be stored and then create text files for to-do lists and messages. This idea is simple, but not very elegant.  read more »