[ Stacks ]

Online databases for knowledge management are useful and important.  Being able to find information quickly is just expected.  Similarly, a structured filing and folder system for your own information and knowledge that you keep online is even more important.  But it’s not quite the same as an actual library.

I remember getting lost in the library stacks.  Browsing for a book in the library or bookstore is a very different experience to searching an online database.  In the tangible world of books-on-shelves, there’s the unexpected delight of a subject-adjacent book that you weren’t looking for. That doesn’t happen in databases.