On Monday, February 3, 2020 at 7:03:04 PM UTC-5, Matt Wilkie wrote: > > > In my opinion writing out an ideal interface (or more accurately: work, > process and interaction flows) are worth doing, if only to clarify for self > what is being sought. I've found it valuable for myself at any rate. It's a > good way of making the not-so-well-considered ideas known. If I can't > describe it clearly, then I haven't considered it as much or as deeply as > I'm in the habit of assuming I have. Of course even after the fuzzy > thinking has been given the boot it's still very difficult to get others > to invest enough imagining-themselves-in-your-shoes time to appreciate the > vision described -- they're busy with their own imagings. > > You've been thinking about this for a couple decades, the challenges still > have you by the short and curlies, they're not letting you go or you them, > so by that evidence alone it's something worth writing down. :-) >
In my experience, this is so very true. You can't really know what you want until you have tried using it to do real work. That will help refine and change your ideas pretty quickly (it's sometimes called "dogfooding", for "eating your own dog food"). OTOH, you have to have some conceptual framework to make a start. In the case of the zettelkasten, the originator of the system wrote that it will take maybe two years to get enough material into the system for it to start to make its benefits obvious. Another practitioner wrote about having it become helpful in a few months. So we can't expect to arrive at a good system by quickly hacking away for a little while. It's going to take a real investment of time working with it and changing things. That's not a bad thing, but it is reality. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/0e151ce8-bf28-451d-a555-32f4b4464a25%40googlegroups.com.
