What can I submit here?

• a link to a systematization that you or someone else has created (drawings, tables, books, photos, etc...)

• a text post that is in some way relevant to systematization

What is systematization?

Systematization is the imposition of patterned structure onto information of any sort.

In other words, systematization is the art of organization.

If all of the structure imposed is actually there in reality, then you are doing science. Mendelev did this type of systematization when he created the periodic table of chemical elements.

When reality is less well-defined or less inherently ordered, then systemization becomes an art. Timothy Leary did this type of systematization when he created the eight-circuit model of consciousness, and Lao Tzu did as well when they wrote the Tao Teh Ching.

When we set aside reality altogether, and simply make something beautifully and memorably elegant, then systematization becomes an art of fantasy building. Brandon Sanderson did this when he designed the magic system of Mistborn.

When we design for the purpose of mental organization, rather than for understanding a real or fantasy world, we end up with mental tools like the Chinese Zodiac (which makes for a far more memorable calendar than our western one).

Systematizers may enjoy:

• laying out toys or trading cards on a floor

• making lists, tables of stuff

• making tables of stuff

• building collections of stuff

• making venn diagrams of stuff

• making hierarchies of stuff

• designing new systems altogether for systematizing stuff