12/ The problem with distributed cognition is that while each locus of organization gets you in the right mood to do different things....
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13/ ... The loci differ in their WORN characteristics, stream-like liveness, processing affordances etc. Some loci like Twitter are leaky.
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14/ My "squirrel map" of distributed cognition as I call it, has about 8 different storage loci with different processing/social/leak chars
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15/ Pro: compared to bookmarking, I can do a shit ton more, with much lower effort. Con: when I have to pull it together to act, it's messy
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16/ Right now I have to wait for "heavy lift mood" days to rein in the chaos to create action momentum. No tools are good for that.
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18/ My squirrel map: Slack, Scapple, email-to-self, FB group, Dropbox PDFs, Penultimate (from Evernote), paper scraps, notebooks, workflowy
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19/ ... outer ring: a couple of FB groups, other people's slacks, twitter search. Locus of last resort is of course just Google.
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20/ This is not counting pure-WIP loci after an idea/exploratory thing has jumped the gap into action: Scrivener, WordPress, GDocs, text...
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curious how you use Scrivener. Do you use it for blog posts or just longer-form stuff? Been reevaluating my writing tools recently.
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longer form. Using it for breaking smart s2 and some other bg projects. Blog posts go straight into wordpress
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thanks, that's what I suspected. Tried Scapple and really liked it. Modeled two tricky problems yesterday very successfully.

