Cluster Your Articles with this Simple Method: the Content Map
How to arrange and categorize your articles to a knowledge base
In the past year, I’ve written more than 100 articles online.
The articles are spread among different topics.
They are in different formats (short-form and long-form) and they reach from personal stories to in-depth book summaries. With the number of published articles steadily growing, it becomes more and more challenging to keep a good overview.
I decided to create a content map to cluster the articles I’ve written.
What is a content map?
I am sure there are dozens of definitions of what a content map is and what it should look like.
I didn’t try any of these.
Instead, I created my method.
As I’ve always been fond of sorting and categorizing, I found the process very joyful, and I think there shouldn’t be too much of a template if you want to create a content map.
What I did was …
- A brief brainstorming about the main categories I want to use.
- A brief brainstorming about other meta-data that might be interesting.
