Organizing? Notes? Art? Either or? Both and? Come on in!

The rule of organizing is: you must find what you did. That’s it.

Forget about everything else, and think, “what do I find easily? What can I never find?”

Before you go into a rabbit hole, researching organizing this, tidying that, decluttering with, purging through…

Consider. Do I have all of my IP items in one place?

If no, where are they?

Can you name them?

Can you find them?

It is not so much putting down your notes or your art. It is about finding everything.

What is easily findable for you?

Do you search your favorited websites by typing in a keyword, so it will make your item float up to the top for you to click?

Do you have a file drawer?

Do you have a desk drawer?

An assignment pad or a planner?

A calendar? Which one?

If you put things on your computer, where are they?

If you put things in a notes app, where are they?

If you put things in a notebook, sketchbook, or journal, where are they?

The more places you store things, much like the chickadee, the more chances you may forfeit any seeds you did not consume or use!

Speaking of chickadees, if you are reading this page, you get a bonus challenge for later, if you’d like.

Somewhere on this website, I have hidden a cache of many ideas. They are not stored in the typical pages of a website that you would guess, and they are not readily available to see with your naked eye.

Here are the hints!

1) You must hit a button, much like exploring a secret passageway.

2) It must have a cache of many buttons inside.

3) It is not the Get Started button, nor the link below it!

4) It is not the Learning the Basics page either…

5) It has my AI studies along with other learning items.

6) You can get to the secret button if you go to the About page and… scroll down…

7) If you really get super lost, look for my photo! It is very close…!!!

8) Hint for my Desperados: Do you want to…learn? Look for a button, where you can…Learn.

It is the quintessential example of me caching away many, many ideas, and I want you to consider your search for a workable organization method the same way you search for my cache of additional learnings on my website.

I want it to be fun. I want you to have a good set of directions, where you can think of things like we used to when we were given relatively easy but still challenging scavenger hunts.

My suggestions — more like hints — for your organization method would be…

1) You must try a way that works for you, much like finding a game you like.

2) It must be able to store a cache of your notes and / or art.

3) It cannot be 1,000 pieces of papers detailing One Thousand And One Nights, unbound, scattered about, blowing away in the wind of your open window.

4) It cannot all reside in your trash can or recycling bin either.

5) It has your creative side along with your critical thinking side.

6) You can get to it if you stand up from your desk and … walk to it.

7) If you really get super lost, look for your desire! It is very close…!!!

8) Hint for my Desperados: Do you want to…learn? Look for a system, where you can…Learn.

This is a playful way to say, you can start however you’d like.

I know we like rules, and we like systems, and we like clever tricks and hacks!

But.

You should find a rule of your making, along with a system of your own, and you should discover your personal tricks and hacks.

Because I love you, and you are a wonderful IP creator, and I think that you have not only talent, but a heart and a brain, and a desire to do things your way. Your way, not someone else’s way.

It takes some time to find what you like.

I am still honing my own.

I have tried Mom’s suggestions and Dad’s suggestions.

I have tried all the teacher ways I have tried over the years of school!

I have tried it the middle school way, the high school way, and the college way.

I have not tried it my ADHD friend’s way!

Except for my famous ADHD friend’s way… But I still don’t use it the way I was taught! Because he said I could do it my way.

So, you can do it all sorts of ways, and you can try all sorts of famous people’s methods.

However!

We will never find our way unless we try.

Please try for your IP’s sake to organize your notes and / or your art in a way that makes sense to you.

It can be simple, complicated, or just you.

It can be on paper, computer, or phone, too.

You can combine methods, use one, or adjust a ton.

The idea is, you organize for you.

The best ways I found to organize for myself, no one ever taught me, and they never stayed the same for very long.

You are a living, changing, breathing being, and your organization system should do the same.

Love,
Sarah