Investigator Raimundas
Vaitkevicius of the Minciu Sodas
laboratory, http://www.ms.lt,
invites you to complete this survey:
Do You Organize Your Thoughts?
This survey is for thinkers - scientists, philosophers, writers, politicians,
executives, journalists and all others who need to write down their thoughts,
save them, organize and develop them, as well as exchange them with other
thinkers. One of the goals of the Minciu Sodas laboratory is to help
thinkers organize and develop their thoughts, create new thoughts.
We first of all want to become acquainted with thinkers, learn their opinions
and desires. Therefore we ask that you respond as exactly and completely
as possible to the questions below. We also invite you to look through
the answers we have collected.
1) Name:
2) Address:
3) Telephone:
4) Email address (if you have one):
5) Subjects of thought (for example, particular branches of science,
particular activities)
6) How often do you write down your thoughts?
7) Approximately how many thoughts do you have written down?
8) Where do you write them down (for example, notebooks, index cards,
computer, etc.)?
9) Do you use any kind of system for writing down your thoughts and
saving them?
10) If so, try to briefly describe your system. Did you invent
it yourself, or did you adapt it from another system?
11) Do you ever organize or reorganize your thoughts in
different ways? If so, what ways do you use?
12) Do you use any methods or tools to help generate new ideas?
If so, try to briefly describe these methods.
13) Do you have any methods for locating a needed thought among all
of your thoughts?
14) Do you exchange the thoughts you write with other people?
If so, how do you typically do this?
15) What kind of obstacles or problems do you come up against in writing
down and organizing thoughts, as well as creating new ones?
16) Why do you think thoughts should be written down?
17) What kind of help or tools would you like for helping organize thoughts
and creating new ones?
18) Other comments and wishes:
19) May we share your answers with others? In particular,
do you retain copyright to your answers above, or do you place them in
the public domain? (Your placing them in the public domain makes
it feasible for us to share them with others.)
Please send me the completed survey by email: Raimundas_Vaitkevicius@fc.vdu.lt
or regular mail: Raimundas Vaitkevicius, VDU Psichologijos Katedra, Donelaicio
52, LT-3000 Kaunas, Lithuania. There is also a version of this survey
in
Lithuanian.
Thank you for your responses. Raimundas
Vaitkevicius
Translator and editor: Andrius
Kulikauskas.