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-====Notebook Collection Phase====
+====Collection Phase====
+===Paper Notebooks===
 I have been offered this Transiency in June 2012, and wrote down any inspiring topic I may want to address during this period until the actual start of the Transiency, in November 2013.
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-As I do not have smartphone, I use old style paper notebooks to write down burning questions/comments/ideas, references and field notes. I write down stuff almost everyday, on quite many different topics. Therefore, I decided to ease the browsing process by adding up small tags into brackets to whatever I was writing down. Here are some tag examples:
+As I do not have smartphone, I use old style **paper notebooks** to write down burning questions/comments/ideas, references and field notes. I write down stuff almost everyday, on quite many different topics. Therefore, I decided to ease the browsing process by adding up small **tags** into brackets to whatever I was writing down. Here are some tag examples:
-  * [REF] is used for litterary and online references
+  * **[REF]** is used for litterary and online references
-  * [LMK] is used for Landmark Papers
+  * **[LMK]** is used for Landmark Papers
-  * [PROJ] is used for projects I would like to implement in the future
+  * **[PROJ]** is used for projects I would like to implement in the future
-  * [FUT] is used for mid-term to long-term ideas of what I may like to do as a profession in the future.
+  * **[FUT]** is used for mid-term to long-term ideas of what I may like to do as a profession in the future.
-  * [ADR] is mainly used when I travel for addresses I would like to remember, like nice coffee places, or spots to watch beautiful landscapes.
+  * **[ADR]** is mainly used when I travel for addresses I would like to remember, like nice coffee places, or spots to watch beautiful landscapes.
-  * [GDS] is used to record transient magical moments I would like to remember over the long term.
+  * **[GDS]** is used to record transient magical moments I would like to remember over the long term.
-  * [FoAM2013] was used to record any Transiency-related content.
+  * **[FoAM2013]** was used to record any Transiency-related content.
-One major phase of the project definition process was therefore to browse the eight notebooks I filled since June 2012 to recover any [FoAM2013]-labeled content.
+One major phase of the project definition process was therefore to browse the eight notebooks I filled since June 2012 to gather any [FoAM2013]-labeled content.
-====Post-it Classification Phase====
+===Numerical Content===
-Some of this content was outdated, so I decided to operate a first filtering step at the root level, and gathered onto post-its only the topics which still seemed relevant to address in November 2013.
+When doing online search, I directly used the computer to write down inspirationnal material regarding the Transiency. In my "numerical & online notebooks", I had:
-I started by just accumulating post-its in a unordered way during one browsing day. Ordering seems easier when you reached a kind of critical mass.
+  * **Web bookmarks** into the bookmark management tool [[http://diigo.com|Diigo]] under the label "FoAM2013"
+  * As I did not use my personal computer at work, I also had to process **E-mails** with links grouped under the label "FoAM2013"
+  * A **text document** called "FoAM 2013" for random non-links stuff like keywords and direct references to activities or Metabolhomics processes
+  * A **folder** called "FoAM 2013" filled up with PDFs to read, images, and other stuff.
+All this material was classified together with the Paper Notebooks material.
+====Classification Phase====
+===Post-it Classification Phase===
+Some of this content was outdated, so I decided to operate a **first filtering step** at the root level, and gathered onto post-its only the topics which still seemed relevant to address in November 2013. This induced lack of traceability, as I have no direct access to the whole set of topics I would have liked to adress during this Transiency. However, it lightened the amount of material to sort, which was already representing much more than the amount I would be able to work on within a year.
+I started by just **accumulating post-its in a unordered way** during one browsing day. Ordering seems easier when you reached a kind of critical mass.
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+From this critical mass emerged a first classification in three **categories**:
+  - **Practices**: a set of activities I want to learn or practice during this year.
+  - **Metabolhomics**: elements regarding the DIY upcycled bio-based self-sufficient habitat I plan to map and prototype this year.
+  - **Language**: a set of keywords describing the approach, methods and activities performed during this Transiency.
+More details about the **sorting algorithm** which helped me sort this into categories are available [[http://transiency-diary.tumblr.com/post/73420206199/iterative-ideas-sorting-algorithm|here]].
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+After more days of notebook content gathering, a bigger amount of post-its allowed to **define sub-categories** to the first basic classification scheme. Some categories where restructured when balance in the content would change with the growing number of post-its.
+===Practical FoAM2013 Table===
+====TODO====
+> Processing language: essential key words and essential anti-key words.