Launch of Wisdom Trove

It's been a lot of work but every minute has been worth it. I've learned so much from this project, in terms of both life wisdom and web development skills. Hopefully others will also find the site useful.

Using Evernote for Compass and Wisdom Trove

This year, I moved all my information relating to Compass and Wisdom Trove to Evernote. Previously I have been using Mindmanager and Excel.

Evernote is really powerful and flexible. It provides some great benefits as an information management system

Benefits

• Facilitates dashboards for tasks and life management.
• Favourite notes, notebooks, and tags accessible in the left column.
• Note links for seamless cross-referencing between notes.
• Organisation by notebooks and tags for flexible categorization.
• Powerful search, even within PDFs, images, and attachments.
• Access across multiple devices for on-the-go productivity.
• Ability to attach various file types, including PDFs, docs, sheets, and mind maps. Best of breed apps for different needs all integrated.
• Collaboration features for shared notes and teamwork.
• Note history archive for tracking changes and restoring versions.
• Scalable: Wisdom Trove ended up having 1000's of notes.
• Ability to create tables.

Wisdom Trove early map

Here is an early version of the quotes I collected for Wisdom Trove before moving it all to Evernote. 

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Wisdom Trove (2012 - )

Introduction

• This is an enormous project I have been working on since 2012. It is a quotations site that is due to launch in 2020.  The site, a work in progress, can be seen here:  www.wisdomtrove.com

Purpose

• Wisdom Trove lovingly curates quotes about life to distill profound truths and practical wisdom on the art of living.
• Inspiring readers to live more fully with greater outer effectiveness and inner tranquility.
• Distilling big ideas (essence)
• Deep spiritual truths introduced to a general audience.
• Inspires appreciation and celebration for life.
• Raising consciousness
• Makes the internet a better place.

Vision

• Wisdom Trove aspires to be the most meaningful quotations and wisdom site on the Internet by curating quotes on the art of living into a deeply insightful and integrated whole that is worth much more than the sum of its parts.
• A timeless reference work and a work of art
• Owns the quote and wisdom category. The Wikipedia of Wisdom.
• My own bible for living. Delighting myself first.
• Tao Te Ching for the modern age
• Abundance to pay others to contribute
• A life of Wisdom Trove, cafe collaborations, retreats and workshops, and travel and nature
• A timeless reference work immortalised in digital records
• Inspired by Presence and balance (time away).
• A unique and trusted voice.
• A revolutionary new way (system) for exploring, distilling and sharing wisdom.
• Collaboration with a dedicated team of conscious, expert curators.

Guiding principles

• Profound truth, practical wisdom for living, insight, revelation
• Exploring big ideas
• Distilled essence, substance
• Curiosity, openness, exploration, discovery
• Integrated, whole, inter-related, context
• Big picture and detail, zoom in and out
• Excellence, attention to detail, quality, consistency
• Mastery, work of art, genius
• Uplifting, consciousness raising
• Curatorship not aggregation, selective, quality not quantity
• Collaboration, sharing
• Best practice, guidelines
• Living, breathing, updated, growing, deepening
• Streamlined, user friendly, hand made and automated
• Timeless, timely, fresh, cutting edge
• Celebration and promotion of authors
• Wisdom of the head and heart
• Visual and verbal wisdom

Timing

• June 2012 - current

Summary