"Organized" is a vague adjective. Like "Efficient" and even "[[Health is Vague|Healthy]]", people talk about wanting to be "organized" often without really having any clarity around what would actually constitute having _achieved_ that goal. Ask around "What does it mean to be 'organized'" and you might get answers like: - to have a place for everything and everything in it's place - to have an extremely robust and effective productivity system - to be neat and tidy in your space - to always be on top of everything I think organization could be defined by the general [[Metrics|metric]] of "how quickly & easily could you get something you need". If you have a giant filing system for ever little thing, and you _know_ where something is but you can't actually _get it_ without going to the vault where it's kept... you're _sort of_ organized, but not really. This note shows My thoughts on organization Have changes since I wrote "Organization is intentional allocation of spacetime" in [[Organization & Spacetime]]. I actually quite like the New Oxford English Dictionary's definition: > [!cite] Organized - _adjective_ > Having one's affairs in order so as to deal with them efficiently Thus "organized" is having a particular [[Business Capability Models|Capability]], rather than a physical state. It's about having the systems built up around you to support handling whatever comes your way. In that way, it's actually pretty similar to my definition of [[Health is Vague|health]] - how capable are you of handling adversity or need. **** # More ## Source - self - New Oxford English Dictionary - via Google ## Related - [[Organization & Spacetime]] - [[Organize by Context]]