This touches on how we store information and the extraordinary efforts we must go through to find something in digital milieu. The case cited here is a documentation of the first use of The Smiley :-)

Dr. Carla O'Dell, the president of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) writes in the Navy's Chips online magazine an overivew of Knowledge Management, What's Now and What's Next.

Here's an article at GanttHead (a site for project managers, natch) that discusses a technique that integrates the hemispheres of the brain by allowing creativity and imposing order. The technique, using a Mind Mapping, was developed by Tony Buzan in the 1970's. There are books out about this stuff too.