LibraryScenariosWhen teams struggle with information overload in their shared documentation systems
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When teams struggle with information overload in their shared documentation systems

Our team has been documenting our creative process in shared files but now we have so much written material that no one can find anything and important insights are getting buried. We created this external memory system to help us build on past work but it's become an overwhelming archive that nobody uses.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group confronts the paradox that successful externalization of memory can become so abundant it defeats its own purpose.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Writing and the externalization of memory?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.