tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890958153006612459.post2768919289234534530..comments2024-03-23T03:23:58.477-07:00Comments on TESTHEAD: The Frustration of "Too Much Choice"Michael Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16180074963526979074noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890958153006612459.post-75190739282231892722017-12-14T15:57:37.034-08:002017-12-14T15:57:37.034-08:00I think this is why people end up going with somet...I think this is why people end up going with something that they find familiar instead of looking into what's the latest and greatest. A perfect example of this is software adoption by small business owners. They might go with a mainstay like <a href="https://zipbooks.com/free-quickbooks-alternative/" rel="nofollow">QuickBooks</a> instead of a newer option with more responsive web features. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890958153006612459.post-45367470593169810982017-11-15T08:58:23.329-08:002017-11-15T08:58:23.329-08:00Jim Hazen, I know the feeling. I have played fast ...Jim Hazen, I know the feeling. I have played fast and loose and been lucky and I've also found myself being perhaps overly back-up conscious. Currently, I keep my active working folder sync'd to Dropbox and I also make regular backups via Time Machine or an external drive. I too know the pain of losing a big chunk of work that has had weeks or months put into it, and it's no fun.Michael Larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16180074963526979074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890958153006612459.post-39219045136473559922017-11-15T08:54:27.829-08:002017-11-15T08:54:27.829-08:00Thanks for the comment, robertday154. Yes, I am in...Thanks for the comment, robertday154. Yes, I am intimately familiar with the whole "finding what I need three days later" situation, or the flip side of that, discovering I need something that I knowingly got rid off a week or month previously because "yeah, I really don't need this". this new approach of immediate, near short/longish term and "who knows when I'll need that" is a little easier with digital media because, for the most part, it's just folders and files. Nailing down a good organization for that takes time, and I feel that I suffer because the sheer volume of it to organize terrifies me at times. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained :).Michael Larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16180074963526979074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890958153006612459.post-47178803083018566792017-11-15T07:51:37.028-08:002017-11-15T07:51:37.028-08:00Just make sure you back it up and have a couple of...Just make sure you back it up and have a couple of backup copies in case of disaster. I recently lost my "research" file (a TXT file with links and other notes) for the book I'm working on. The file got corrupted (could not recover it at all); end of day shutdown of computer and thought the file closed safely (er... wrong). Lost about 4 months of notes, fortunately most of them had been used as references and included in the book already. I made a point of making sure the references section was updated as I went. But I lost a couple of sections that were for a new chapter. Back to the drawing board.<br /><br />I now make sure Notepad++ does a local backup (I double save the file to keep it all recent) of the research file, and the Word docs with the book are backed up as well. Backup early and often.<br /><br />Jim HazenCalkelpdiverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14278143481367031063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890958153006612459.post-70757355142580039772017-11-15T02:09:17.781-08:002017-11-15T02:09:17.781-08:00As a librarian in a previous life, two of the subj...As a librarian in a previous life, two of the subjects I was taught in library school were "Organisation of Knowledge" and "Access to Information". The first was about categorisation and schemes for doing that; the second was about tools to drill down to that categorised knowledge. Of course, this was long before some loon went and invented the personal computer and the Internet, so we were talking for the most part about paper tools - catalogues, indexes, abstracts and bibliographies - and IT came into the equation when we looked at remote accessing big corporate databases. Keyword searching was the Next Big Thing.<br /><br />I find this background helpful now when organising my own digital resources. Even then, occasionally I manage to miss something in my own searches and inevitably find exactly the resource I need about three days AFTER I needed it. This happens no matter how well I think I've keyworded/tagged the item. So it goes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com