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Archives

This folder contains my initial thoughts and intuition captured after reading or watching longer-form content, organized by category.

Purpose

Instead of saving full articles or complete transcripts, I capture:

  • My immediate reactions and insights
  • Key takeaways that resonate with me
  • Questions that arise
  • Connections to other ideas
  • Personal reflections on the content

This approach helps me:

  • Focus on what actually matters to me
  • Build a knowledge base of my own thinking
  • Avoid information overload
  • Create a more personal and useful archive

Organization

Content is organized into the following categories:

AI-and-Technology

  • AI-Limitations: Articles about AI constraints, failures, or limitations
  • Tech-Competition: Industry competition, market dynamics, tech company strategies
  • Privacy-Surveillance: Privacy concerns, surveillance, data collection
  • Open-Source-AI: Open source AI projects, community initiatives

Media-and-Communication

  • Media-Transformation: How media is changing, new formats, industry shifts
  • Social-Platforms: Social media platforms, their impact, changes
  • Communication-Frameworks: Communication theory, frameworks, best practices

Business-and-Finance

  • Luxury-Markets: Luxury goods, high-end markets, premium brands
  • Corporate-Ethics: Corporate responsibility, ethical business practices
  • Marketing-Strategy: Marketing approaches, branding, customer engagement

Society-and-Human-Understanding

  • Dehumanization-Propaganda: Dehumanizing narratives, propaganda, harmful messaging
  • Impact-vs-Intent: Understanding impact regardless of intent, accountability
  • Religion-Narratives: Religious themes, spiritual narratives, belief systems

Personal-Development

  • Generalist-Resources: General productivity, career advice, life skills
  • Neurodiversity-Tools: Resources for neurodivergent individuals, masking, ADHD, autism

Workflow

  1. Capture: When I read or watch something that sparks thoughts, I create a note in the Clippings folder
  2. Reflect: I write down my initial thoughts, intuitions, and reactions
  3. Categorize: I assign the appropriate category using the categorization file
  4. Organize: The organize_files.py script moves the file to the correct Archive subdirectory
  5. Index: The script automatically adds your insights to INSIGHTS.md for easy reference

Insights Index

The INSIGHTS.md file in this directory is automatically maintained and contains a chronological index of all your insights. Each entry includes:

  • Title: The title of the content (extracted from frontmatter)
  • Date: The date you captured the insight (from created or published field)
  • Your thoughts: Your full personal reflections and insights
  • File location: Clickable path to the original file for easy access

This creates a single searchable document of all your insights that you can reference when creating content. The index is automatically updated whenever you organize clippings—no manual work required.

Quarterly Archiving

You can rename and archive this file quarterly (e.g., INSIGHTS-2025-Q4.md) and start fresh. The script will automatically create a new INSIGHTS.md for the next quarter.

File Format

Each file includes:

  • Frontmatter: Title, source URL, author, publication date, description, tags
  • Content: My personal thoughts, reactions, and insights (not the full article)

Example:

---
title: "Article Title"
source: "https://example.com/article"
author: "[[Author Name]]"
published: 2025-12-05
created: 2025-12-05
description: "Brief description"
tags:
  - "clippings"
---

My initial thoughts and reactions go here...

Scripts

  • create_categorization_file.sh: Generates a template file (categorize_all.txt) listing all clippings for categorization
  • organize_files.py:
    • Moves categorized files from Clippings to the appropriate Archive subdirectory
    • Automatically extracts and indexes insights to INSIGHTS.md
    • Includes duplicate prevention
    • Verifies file integrity before removing originals

Usage

# Step 1: Generate categorization template
bash create_categorization_file.sh

# Step 2: Edit categorize_all.txt to add categories
# Format: filename|primary_category|secondary_category

# Step 3: Organize files (moves files and updates insights index)
python3 organize_files.py categorize_all.txt