The approaches for information organization versus info retrieval are often different. For example, we mostly read content based on whatever fixed structure it's in, be it a blog post or a scientific article. Note-taking tends to follow that structure. But we retrieve and consume the information in a non-linear, context-driven search.
Putting everything in a rigid hierarchical oder has some benefits, namely familiarityto the author, but incurs the cost of organizing the material and the mental context switch from the task at hand.
I've been researching ways to make information tagging and visual search easy and effective - at the source - in the narrow case of reading scholarly documents [1]. The goal is to avoid a prescribed organization format in favor of contextual tagging, visualization for personal analytics, and linking of concepts afterwards, in a way that reduces distraction from reading and understanding.
Putting everything in a rigid hierarchical oder has some benefits, namely familiarityto the author, but incurs the cost of organizing the material and the mental context switch from the task at hand.
I've been researching ways to make information tagging and visual search easy and effective - at the source - in the narrow case of reading scholarly documents [1]. The goal is to avoid a prescribed organization format in favor of contextual tagging, visualization for personal analytics, and linking of concepts afterwards, in a way that reduces distraction from reading and understanding.
[1] https://www.knowledgegarden.io/