Lisa Martin

Thinking back to Chapter 1, we know categorization is one of the LATCH methods for organizing information.

Categorizing content is a process of criteria matching, which means we have to answer two questions:

What are the criteria for the category?
Does the content match the criteria?

In real life, we don’t perfectly define all categories up front, then assess content against that rigid structure one piece at a time. The process of categorization is much more fluid—we move back and forth between defining the criteria and vetting the criteria, seeing how the details fit in the system and how the system must change to accommodate details