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This chat starts where our last chat ends.
We built filters on our incoming information flows.
A piece passed our filters. we are now skimming, or studying it.
What should we keep form it for optimal leverage and retention.
What are Touchpoints?
It’s a concept imagined by Bruno Winck to simply note taking, organizing and retention to be very easy. Many other authors reached similar ideas.
Touchpoints are half-way between tags and annotations.
Annotations tends to be too many and too long. They are good to keep takeaways, to prepare summaries. They are heavy to retain what the text is about or to relate it to other pieces.
Tags are great when they are well managed. Chances are your are poorly managed. There should be as few as possible tags in your list and assign the minimum set of tags the most relevant. tags are just labels, with no semantic or flexibility.
Touchpoints are the key parts of annotations or title that let you remember what the piece is about and which topics are touched by the arguments in it. Not all points, only those you are interested it.
A touchpoint don’t contain the author position or judgement, only the minimal sequence of words to be clear. Like both a text supporting opinion A and a text against opinion A ends up in the same basket.
Touchpoints will be much more numerous than tags, they expand freely as your knowledge grow. There is a secondary knowledge process to relate them and ensure various expression leading to the same meaning are unified. It’s done a posteriori where tags are organized a priori.
Some touchpoints maybe concepts, people’s name, books, events. Touchpoints are not limited to that.
How to identify touchpoints?
Title
There will be one or more touchpoint to keep what the piece is about. Good thing compared to tags is that we don’t need to limit ourselves to 100 predefined tags. Be precise without paraphrasing the title. It doesn’t need to be unique to the piece as it’s very likely 10 or 50 pieces will be produced on every topic over a few years.
Don’t try either to include all the specificity of the piece in one touchpoint. It is the collection of them that will be used to remember what the piece is about.
Authors are likely to be touchpoints as well
Body of text
Now is the funnier part. Read, skim and try to locate the 10 or less more important ideas shared. Important for you. Unless you are in charge of building summaries it’s only your interest that count.
You could start with annotations too. Once you annotated the piece, locate in each annotation what they are about and use this as touchpoint.
TBC
PKMChat being about Personal Knowledge Management encompass Knowledge lifecycle in general. Our first chat was about learning, acquiring Knowledge. Our second is about sharing it. Week after weeks we will switch from one end of the lifecycle to another while exploring all the channels that could be used: social, formal, writing, videos. Feel free to suggest topics by tweeting to @pkmchat.
TBC
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