[Knowledge Platform Organization Meta-Framework](../Knowledge%20Platform%20Organization%20Meta-Framework/Knowledge%20Platform%20Organization%20Meta-Framework.md) # Components of Organization > [!summary] These are ways to mentally model how and why to organize information ## Goals of Organization 1) Information Retrieval - Finding the thing that you need for whatever it is 2) Knowledge Work - Working with information from within the system itself (libraries aren't made for this) 3) Action - The goals of some organizational systems (like planners or todo lists) are for helping towards actions or goals 4) Knowledge Capture or Inputs - Some systems just need to be easy to put stuff into boxes ## Things we can organize by? - STIR - **S**pace - **T**ime - **I**mportance - **R**elatedness - LATCH - **L**ocation - **A**lphabet - **T**ime - **C**ategory - **H**ierarchy (the original refers to this as “Continuum”, but that’s not as catchy) - Ways to organize - By the process (input, organizing, output) - By the content (ontologies, clustering/keywords) - By actionability - By the time (modified or created or published) - By name (alphabet, naming schemes)