Wednesday, November 22, 2006
THE MASTERLIST IS AN IDEA
First and foremost, The MasterList is an idea. You can create a MasterList without a computer or a software program and write-it-up in the sand on a desert island.
A MasterList is nothing more than a system of integrated project lists, with connections to everything you can think of and want to have notations about, to help you understand any part of it anytime you touch base with it, and to be able to re-connect instantly to any connection you have already have, so you don't have to rebuild half your knowledge base every time you peek in on your "script".
So, naturally, in a world of computers and software, we created a software program that does just that. The MasterList
I have created "masterlists" on legal pads, diagrams, Word documents, mind maps, and spreadsheets. I have "MasterList-ized" industry specific databases and case management programs, which I refer to as MERD's (Mandatory Employer Required Database).
But, my favorite MasterList tool is our software program The MasterList because it behaves EXACTLY AS DESIGNED. That means instant viewability of all connections to any idea or project. That means automated cross-viewing of categories, types, priorities, and date-triggered material across all projects. That means automated re-sequencing of priorities to adjust to the daily weather-shifts in workload and task production requirements.
Anything I would wish this idea could be, we have made it. And, it works perfectly.
Candidly, nothing is missing, except it has yet to realize its potential as an ubiquitous, shareable internet product ala MySpace. Well, that will take a considerable investment; and, it will be a great day when that is accomplished.
In the meantime, the Idea is perfect in conception and marvelous in its PC, networkable version.
Think about the Idea. How would you pull together everything, with relationship to everything, the way you want it related, and according to your definitions of what, when, where, and why you want it?
Google can hold all the world's knowledge in its 100,000 server database. But only The MasterList can organize all your practical, working knowledge, the way you need it, to help direct you on your everyday personal journey of processing the world you have to work with, in the way you see it, and how you to need to work upon it.
First and foremost, The MasterList is an idea. You can create a MasterList without a computer or a software program and write-it-up in the sand on a desert island.
A MasterList is nothing more than a system of integrated project lists, with connections to everything you can think of and want to have notations about, to help you understand any part of it anytime you touch base with it, and to be able to re-connect instantly to any connection you have already have, so you don't have to rebuild half your knowledge base every time you peek in on your "script".
So, naturally, in a world of computers and software, we created a software program that does just that. The MasterList
I have created "masterlists" on legal pads, diagrams, Word documents, mind maps, and spreadsheets. I have "MasterList-ized" industry specific databases and case management programs, which I refer to as MERD's (Mandatory Employer Required Database).
But, my favorite MasterList tool is our software program The MasterList because it behaves EXACTLY AS DESIGNED. That means instant viewability of all connections to any idea or project. That means automated cross-viewing of categories, types, priorities, and date-triggered material across all projects. That means automated re-sequencing of priorities to adjust to the daily weather-shifts in workload and task production requirements.
Anything I would wish this idea could be, we have made it. And, it works perfectly.
Candidly, nothing is missing, except it has yet to realize its potential as an ubiquitous, shareable internet product ala MySpace. Well, that will take a considerable investment; and, it will be a great day when that is accomplished.
In the meantime, the Idea is perfect in conception and marvelous in its PC, networkable version.
Think about the Idea. How would you pull together everything, with relationship to everything, the way you want it related, and according to your definitions of what, when, where, and why you want it?
Google can hold all the world's knowledge in its 100,000 server database. But only The MasterList can organize all your practical, working knowledge, the way you need it, to help direct you on your everyday personal journey of processing the world you have to work with, in the way you see it, and how you to need to work upon it.
