Scan with broad interest
“What is important with card is not classification, but to flip some times.”
Umesao, Tadao, Chiteki Seisan no Gijyutu, p. 59.
Long time I had misunderstood what Umesao said. I had thought he suggest ‘flip’ cards to search a certain cards frequently. But it is not for search, but for review.
Search and review are resemble in action. Both ’scan’s the cards in a box. But the meaning is completely different.
Search : scan with narrow band, narrow interest. This is something like SETI project. Scan all stars and search for extra terrestrial intelligence. We know SETI provides screen saver and uses huge number of CPU all over the world.
Review : scan with broad band, broad interest. This is something like gazing stars in the sky. We see lights of stars, and also pattern of distribution : a constellation.
So Umesao’s words mean that we should scan the dock with broad interest. Enjoy finding pattern. When we find a new discovery, write it on a new cards. And this is a ‘productivity’.
