Article:		Geeks and the Dijalog Lifestyle
Subject:		What about dijalogging how and what we learn?
Date:		2004-02-23 09:08:15
From:		Shao Pin Hoo
I am tremendously interested in how a Dijalog (I've been calling it a Personal Digital Library) can help me document and record things that I learn, not just from physical artifacts, but also web clickstreams, online citations, etc. It would be very interesting if enough people do that and share their learning dijalogs with the rest of us. One suggestion would be for the author to dijalog his experience during this period of writing for "Hacking the Library".

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• What about dijalogging how and what we learn?
  2004-02-23 09:32:27 John Brooking [Reply]
  
  I've tried various ways of doing that, from a Windows help file (early-90s) to the more recent notes on a Palm Pilot, none of them completely satisfactory. Like my filing example above, the major problem I see is one of searching. At least with knowledge, you can represent it purely digitally. (So I'm not sure what the analog portion of this topic is.) I guess probably a small XML document with keyword search capability might be best. Gotta be something out there already for this. Librarians?

  
  Another good type of content would be "notes to self" for some unspecified future time, such as when you hear a great piece of music on the radio, or someone recommends a good author, or someone tells you in March what they would love to get for Christmas next year.