- The [collect one's thoughts](/en/collect%20one's%20thoughts) method introduced by [Tadao Umesao](/en/Tadao%20Umesao) in [The Art of Intellectual Production](/en/The%20Art%20of%20Intellectual%20Production). p.202
The following techniques may be useful in constructing coherent thoughts and sentences.
First, prepare a piece of paper...
On each sheet of paper, write a word, phrase, or short sentence related to the subject at hand, one entry per sheet. Write as you think of them, in any order...
When you've done it all, put the scraps of paper on your desk or on your tatami mat....
Look at each piece of paper one by one and see if there are any other pieces of paper that are connected to it. If there are, place them together. If there are any, place them together. At this point, never categorize the pieces of paper.
When you have a group of sheets of paper, put them together in an order that seems to make logical sense. Then, I fold the edges over and staple them together. This established an idea. I call the resulting series of paper strips "small stature".
Stapled:.
Compared to the flow of the KJ method introduced in The Intellectual Production of Engineers:: The KJ method is a method that is based on a method that is based on the KJ method.
Write down what comes to mind Writing Method.
Arrange them side by side for better listing.
Instead of categorizing, find pieces of paper that are connected and put them together.
Arrange them in the order in which they make sense.
Cards, Kozane and Scrapbox | Sigotano!
What I do with sticky notes when I write or prepare lecture materials is almost the same as the Kozane method.
He wrote that, too. p. 206.
This method had been gradually developed among our colleagues for quite some time. However, it was Jiro Kawakita, a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology and famous as the founder of the KJ method, who developed it into a very sophisticated technique, both in theory and practice.
The KJ method, named after his initials, has recently been attracting a great deal of attention as a systematic technique for finding meaningful combinations from heterogeneous data. In particular, it is highly regarded as a method for "gathering the collective knowledge" of multiple people, and seems to be put to practical use by various companies. The Kozane method, which I have introduced here, is a closed-door intellectual production technique for a few individuals, and in Kawakita's system, it is a relatively simple and rudimentary technique. In Kawakita's system, it is almost the same as what is called "KJ method B" writing.
In the early days when I started using Scrapbox, I too was aware that a page was the equivalent of a piece of "kozane" paper and complained, "Why do you force me to have a title?" and "Can't I change the order by myself?
I began to view granularity differently and began to think that "Scrapbox titles are the equivalent of tableplates in the KJ method (for a bundle of multiple cards).
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