18 July 2006

Microthinking

If you can capture a thought in fifteen square inches, and then move on, you can catch a lot of thoughts

Ed Vielmetti in Thinking in quadrille 3×5’ notecards

# posted by saurierduval | tags: ,

4 Comments for Microthinking

  1. Edward Vielmetti said,

    Oct 6 #

    See this

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkexpress/sets/72157594200490122/

    japanese 3×5 quadrille card thinking. kanji looks ideal for compact expression.

  2. Edward Vielmetti said,

    Oct 17 #

    I ended up on 5×8 cards instead of 3×5s and the size of the thoughts got bigger. Alas, it takes now 15 minutes to capture them.

  3. Saurier said,

    Oct 31 #

    wow, this flickr set is rhizomatic ;)

  4. Edward Vielmetti said,

    Nov 9 #

    Aha, it gets better –

    If you end up on 5×8 quadrille cards, you can tile and layer them to make bigger designs, big enough to show an entire page. Use overlapping cards to expand on the concepts and ideas in the blocks of the original layout.

    A card that took 15 minutes to write took about 2 minutes to present as part of a narrative.