Situational Note-taking: “Frame for work” and “Framework”

Oliver Ding
Curativity Center
Published in
8 min readJan 3, 2024

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A short note

Yesterday I wrote a short annual review of my creative work in 2023. The above diagram was used to represent a series of books: Aspects of Early Discovery.

In 2022, I wrote four books and called them “Aspects of Creative Life” which focuses on different units of analysis of a creator’s life course.

In 2023, I moved to the process of making creative work, especially the early stage of developing significant themes into solid concepts. I used “Aspects of Early Discovery” to name four possible books.

In 2023, I wrote 7 or 8 possible books. Two of them are the same thing because one (Knowledge Engagement) was written in Chinese in April 2023, and the other one (Creative Life Theory) was written in English in Oct 2023.

From 2019 to Dec 2023, I wrote 26 possible books!

This is a fantastic creative journey!

This morning I sent the link to the article to two friends. After sending the email, I reflected on the two diagrams I…

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Oliver Ding
Curativity Center

Founder of CALL(Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.