On VoodooPads, Everything Buckets and Great Discoveries

A comment on Buzz Anderson’s response to Alex Payne’s post about everything buckets is just about where I am:

I’m late to this discussion… but aren’t you and Alex talking about different things?

Alex never mentions VoodooPad in his article, and if you are creating links between VoodooPad pages then aren’t you using it as more than just an everything bucket? Creating links between documents sounds like what Alex was describing when he said, “Once data is normalized and structured, finding correlations is faster and easier.”

I actually agree with Alex and have gone back to the filesystem instead of everything buckets for organizing lecture material for classes — but I still use VoodooPad for writing notes. VoodooPad lets me build an extensive cross-indexed wiki of all that I’ve learned across terms. There’s nothing “everything bucket” about this. In fact, VoodooPad is a document-based application, so it even lets me have a variety of documents with completely different contexts.

I still use Evernote for some things, but I’ve been migrating toward VoodooPad after using it to build a wiki for a specific project. For me, it became the most intuitive way to take notes and link to a myriad of data I collected on the subject. And, I find myself able to find things easier in the construct I’ve created using VoodooPad.

I love when one project leads to great discoveries with ramifications on other projects or, like in this case, my entire workflow.