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Introduction to Organizing for "Kids"
1. The Meaning of "Organized"
2. The Meaning of "Organizing" - Three Questions to Answer
3. Activity - The Three Questions when Designing an Organizing System
4. Activity - What Is A Library?
5. Thinking Like An Architect
6. Activity - Thinking Like An Architect
7. How Many Things Is That? (How "Things with Parts" Can Make the WHAT Question Tricky)
8. Activity - How Many Things Is That?
9. Organizing Time and Organizing with Time
10. How Many Things is School? Organizing at Different Time Scales
11. Categories defined by Listing their Members
12. Categories defined by Single Properties
13. Activity - List and Single-Property Categories (part 1)
14. Activity - List and Single-Property Categories (part 2)
15. Understanding "Hierarchy" in Organizing
16. Categories Defined by More Than One Property
17. Activity - How Property Order Determines a Hierarchy
18. Answers for "How Property Order Determines a Hierarchy"
19. Categories Defined by Similarity
20. Activity - Categories Defined by Similarity
21. Categories Defined by Shared Activities or Goals
22. Activity - Categories Defined by Activities or Goals
23. Organizing Tangible Objects
24. Activity -- Organizing Tangible Objects
25. Organizing Libraries
26. Organizing Plants and Animals
27. Activity - Organizing Animals
28. Organizing People
29. Activity - Organizing People
30. Organizing Places
31. Activity - Organizing Places
32. Organizing Digital Resources
33. Organizing the Activities and Places of School
34. Managing Your Time Better
35. Making and Analyzing an Inventory of Time Events
36. How A Time Architect Creates A Schedule
37. Organizing with Astronomy and its Natural Time Units
38. Activity - Organizing with Astronomy
39. Connecting WHAT, WHY, and HOW when Designing an Organizing System
40. Resource Abstraction - the "Santa" Question
41. Activity - Level of Abstraction
42. Collection Scope And Scale
43. Activity - Scope and Scale
44. "Natural" Categories and "Carving Nature at the Joints"
45. Activity for "Carving Nature at its Joints"
46. Applying "Carving Nature at its Joints" to Places
47. Automatic Organizing - The Gestalt Principles
48. Automatic Organizing - Camouflage and Illusions
49. Activity - Pareidolia
50. This Is NOT The End
Acknowledgements
Robert J Glushko
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