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.

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
• [LMK] is used for Landmark Papers
• [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.
• [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.
• [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.

Some of this content was outdated, so I decided to operate a first filtering step at the root level, and gathered onto post-its only the topics which still seemed relevant to address in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.

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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