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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===
+As more post-its were added to the wall, **further sub-categories** where created, some **specific contents** were highlighted by being put on post-its with different colors. The final result of the post-it classification looked like the following picture - where you can only see the classification of the Metabolhomics category.
-====TODO====
+{{ :michka:img_3708.jpg?400 |}}
-> Processing language: essential key words and essential anti-key words.
+Post-its have mainly been used as precursors of mindmaps. Post-its are quite handy because they - theoretically - can be re-positionned several times and still stick to the surface. When dealing with large amounts of content to classify, I think that post-its are handy for three reasons:
+  - You get physical with your ideas
+  - You are able to do and undo classification schemes in very intuitive and quick way
+  - You can keep an holoptic view more easily with a big wall than with a small screen
+However, as you do not want to archive your wall forever with the right classification, I have then switched to mindmaps.
+===Mindmaps===
+Thanks to the freeware version of [[http://www.xmind.net/|XMind]], I obtained compact and readable mindmaps out of my quickly-handwritten-and-unsticky-anymore-post-its.
+I kept almost exactly the same organization than on my wall, and obtained, for instance, the two following maps:
+  * {{:michka:practices_december.pdf|Practices}}
+  * {{:michka:metabolhomics.pdf|Metabolhomics}}
+The content may look a bit cryptic to you, but I promise I can understand myself better than with the post-its :)
+In addition to these mindmaps which define project strategy from high- to low- level content, I created a workbook for more practical sutff. Logically, I called it "Practical FoAM2013".
+===Practical FoAM2013 Tables===
+This [[http://www.openoffice.org/|Open Office]] workbook contains eight tabs.
+  - A **General Objectives List**, where I write down things [[http://transiency-diary.tumblr.com/post/73421005974/reading-list-priorizing|I would be sad not to have achieved at the end of the year.]]
+  - A **Short-Term To-Do List**, where I write down short-term tasks I want to achieve in the following days.
+  - A **Reading/Watching/Listening List** where is stored all the references collected in my paper and numerical notebooks.
+  - An **Exploration List**, complementary to the previous one, where I write down names and keywords about topics I found interesting, and I would like to dig into a little bit more.
+  - A **Connected Projects List**, where I list projects I feel are connected to Metabolhomics and the general spirit of this Transiency.
+  - A **People I Should Connect With List**, where I list... people I should connect with.
+  - A **Diffusion List**, where I start to list contacts of people interested with my work, and to whom I should send some kind of newsletter.
+  - A **Questions List**, where I list the topic I would like to adress during my regular meetings with FoAM's Core Team members.
+This workbook articulates day-to-day Project Management elements like the Short-Term To-Do List with more global Project Definition elements, like the General Objectives list.
+====Scheduling====
+The next task is to produce a schedule of activities, showing how they will articulate until the end of the year.
+Right now, the schedule is pretty rough, as it only cuts the whole Transiency in two main phases.
+  - The ***Definition phase (November-March)***, during which gathering and processing of informations are the main tasks. I will be involved with research, reading, mapping and design tasks to prepare the second phase, which will be...
+  - The ***Implementation phase (April-November)***, during which I will prototype a system of objects out of the Metabolhomics Map.
+A more detailed schedule is currently under construction.
+====TODO====
+> Processing language: essential key words and essential anti-key words.
+> Getting physical TD link