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- | ==Notebook | + | ====Collection Phase==== |
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+ | ===Paper Notebooks=== | ||
I have been offered this Transiency in June 2012, and wrote down any inspiring topic I may want to address during this period until the actual start of the Transiency, in November 2013. | I have been offered this Transiency in June 2012, and wrote down any inspiring topic I may want to address during this period until the actual start of the Transiency, in November 2013. | ||
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+ | As I do not have smartphone, I use old style **paper notebooks** to write down burning questions/ | ||
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+ | * **[REF]** is used for litterary and online references | ||
+ | * **[LMK]** is used for Landmark Papers | ||
+ | * **[PROJ]** is used for projects I would like to implement in the future | ||
+ | * **[FUT]** is used for mid-term to long-term ideas of what I may like to do as a profession in the future. | ||
+ | * **[ADR]** is mainly used when I travel for addresses I would like to remember, like nice coffee places, or spots to watch beautiful landscapes. | ||
+ | * **[GDS]** is used to record transient magical moments I would like to remember over the long term. | ||
+ | * **[FoAM2013]** was used to record any Transiency-related content. | ||
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+ | One major phase of the project definition process was therefore to browse the eight notebooks I filled since June 2012 to gather any [FoAM2013]-labeled content. | ||
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+ | ===Numerical Content=== | ||
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+ | When doing online search, I directly used the computer to write down inspirationnal material regarding the Transiency. In my " | ||
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+ | * **Web bookmarks** into the bookmark management tool [[http:// | ||
+ | * As I did not use my personal computer at work, I also had to process **E-mails** with links grouped under the label " | ||
+ | * A **text document** called "FoAM 2013" for random non-links stuff like keywords and direct references to activities or Metabolhomics processes | ||
+ | * A **folder** called "FoAM 2013" filled up with PDFs to read, images, and other stuff. | ||
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+ | All this material was classified together with the Paper Notebooks material. | ||
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+ | ====Classification Phase==== | ||
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+ | ===Post-it Classification Phase=== | ||
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+ | Some of this content was outdated, so I decided to operate a **first filtering step** at the root level, and gathered onto post-its only the topics which still seemed relevant to address in November 2013. This induced lack of traceability, | ||
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+ | I started by just **accumulating post-its in a unordered way** during one browsing day. Ordering seems easier when you reached a kind of critical mass. | ||
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+ | From this critical mass emerged a first classification in three **categories**: | ||
+ | - **Practices**: | ||
+ | - **Metabolhomics**: | ||
+ | - **Language**: | ||
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+ | More details about the **sorting algorithm** which helped me sort this into categories are available [[http:// | ||
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+ | After more days of notebook content gathering, a bigger amount of post-its allowed to **define sub-categories** to the first basic classification scheme. Some categories where restructured when balance in the content would change with the growing number of post-its. | ||
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+ | As more post-its were added to the wall, **further sub-categories** where created, some **specific contents** were highlighted by being put on post-its with different colors. The final result of the post-it classification looked like the following picture - where you can only see the classification of the Metabolhomics category. | ||
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+ | Post-its have mainly been used as precursors of mindmaps. Post-its are quite handy because they - theoretically - can be re-positionned several times and still stick to the surface. When dealing with large amounts of content to classify, I think that post-its are handy for three reasons: | ||
+ | - You get physical with your ideas | ||
+ | - You are able to do and undo classification schemes in very intuitive and quick way | ||
+ | - You can keep an holoptic view more easily with a big wall than with a small screen | ||
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+ | However, as you do not want to archive your wall forever with the right classification, | ||
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+ | ===Mindmaps=== | ||
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+ | Thanks to the freeware version of [[http:// | ||
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+ | I kept almost exactly the same organization than on my wall, and obtained, for instance, the two following maps: | ||
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+ | * {{: | ||
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+ | The content may look a bit cryptic to you, but I promise I can understand myself better than with the post-its :) | ||
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+ | In addition to these mindmaps which define project strategy from high- to low- level content, I created a workbook for more practical sutff. Logically, I called it " | ||
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+ | ===Practical FoAM2013 Tables=== | ||
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+ | This [[http:// | ||
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+ | - A **General Objectives List**, where I write down things [[http:// | ||
+ | - A **Short-Term To-Do List**, where I write down short-term tasks I want to achieve in the following days. | ||
+ | - A **Reading/ | ||
+ | - An **Exploration List**, complementary to the previous one, where I write down names and keywords about topics I found interesting, | ||
+ | - A **Connected Projects List**, where I list projects I feel are connected to Metabolhomics and the general spirit of this Transiency. | ||
+ | - A **People I Should Connect With List**, where I list... people I should connect with. | ||
+ | - A **Diffusion List**, where I start to list contacts of people interested with my work, and to whom I should send some kind of newsletter. | ||
+ | - A **Questions List**, where I list the topic I would like to adress during my regular meetings with FoAM's Core Team members. | ||
- | As I do not have smartphone, I use old style paper notebooks | + | This workbook articulates day-to-day Project Management elements like the Short-Term To-Do List with more global Project Definition elements, like the General Objectives list. |
- | * [REF] is used for litterary and online references | + | ====Scheduling==== |
- | * [LMK] is used for Landmark Papers | + | |
- | * [PROJ] is used for projects I would like to implement in the future | + | |
- | * [FUT] is used for mid-term to long-term ideas of what I may like to do as a profession in the future. | + | |
- | * [ADR] is mainly used when I travel for addresses I would like to remember, like nice coffee places, or spots to watch beautiful landscapes. | + | |
- | * [GDS] is used to record transient magical moments I would like to remember over the long term. | + | |
- | * [FoAM2013] was used to record any Transiency-related content. | + | |
- | One major phase of the project definition process was therefore to browse | + | The next task is to produce a schedule |
- | Some of this content was outdated, so I decided to operate a first filtering step at the root level, and gathered onto post-its | + | Right now, the schedule is pretty rough, as it only cuts the whole Transiency in two main phases. |
+ | - The ***Definition phase (November-March)***, | ||
+ | - The ***Implementation phase (April-November)***, during which I will prototype a system of objects out of the Metabolhomics Map. | ||
- | I started by just accumulating post-its in a unordered way during one browsing day. Ordering seems easier when you reached a kind of critical mass. | + | A more detailed schedule is currently under construction. |
- | {{ : | + | ====TODO==== |
- | [...] | + | > Processing language: essential key words and essential anti-key words. |
+ | > Getting physical TD link |