#categorised

There is a difference between organising and categorising, which I find difficult to put into words.

Think of it like this:

Picture an organised room.

Now picture a categorised one.

Spot the difference?

In organised rooms the books are neatly on the shelves. The clothes are neatly folded. The cutlery is in a drawer in the kitchen.

In categorised rooms, things are either subtly or massively different. The books are grouped by size, author, genre, series, or some other category; some are separated because they don’t have subject matter similar to any other book. The clothes are grouped by material, maker, purpose, etc. In the kitchen everything has a separate drawer, depending on whether it’s a fork, knife, spoon, spork, spatula, eggbeater. Each belongs to a specific drawer.

Organised is neat, things are where you expect them to be. Categorised requires a criteria to be known to make sense of it.