When you schematize something, you take a messy set of ideas or facts and put them into a clear system — maybe a picture with boxes, or a list of steps, or a simple map of how the parts fit. Teachers, scientists, and planners do this when they want the shape of a thing, not every small detail. It is a formal, school-and-office word. In everyday talk people more often say “make a diagram” or “organize it.” Though actually, schematize is a bit stronger than “organize”: you are not only tidying up, you are pushing the thing into a pattern, and some of the real mess will not fit that pattern. The pattern itself is called a schema.

系統化；圖式化