I’ve Scooped, Flipped, Bookmarked, Pinned, and Evernoted. My favorite hobby is collecting information. In fact, I can pretty much brag that I am GREAT at searching for information and saving it. The problem is that I am not good at remembering where I saved it.
“Did I save that article in Flipboard or on one of my Google Sheets? No, I think I Pinned it,” I mumble. Often.
After I spent 20 minutes looking for an article that I knew I had saved on whether or not I am more like Sherlock Holmes or John Watson (Sherlock Holmes, surprisingly), and realizing I could have found it in 3 seconds by using Google, I had to admit I had a problem.
I am a digital hoarder.
I decided to spend this summer looking for a way to streamline the digital content I collect. Here is my criteria:
- One place to store everything
- Accessible on any device and in any web browser, Twitter, Flipboard and other places from which I gather info
- No more than 2 steps to save
- Taggable
- Searchable
- Maintains the source information (especially if obtained on Twitter)
- Free
- Unlimited Storage
It may seem a bit counterintuitive, but I actually found a way to hoard more information – yet become more organized.
I’ll explain more in Step #2 tomorrow.
In the meantime, go ahead and feel free to join the Digital Hoarders Anonymous Program. The first step – admit you have a problem 😉
and zotero for texts, goodreads for books, and trello for all the clutter in my head, plus postits, maps in maps in maps on my harddrive and private messages on my facebookwall. And that’s only the digital information 😀
So please, if you have the ultimate solution, please share! 😀
Wow. I’m not sure I have a cure for you. You might be beyond my expertise! 😉