§ My note taking system
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I have developed my own system of taking notes, which is heavily inspired by Zettelkasten and also by some of the concepts Andy Matuschak has written about. Some call this a Personal Knowledge Management system. This note is an Outline Note.
Background
- My goals of my note taking system
- The importance and value of note taking for me
- My notes are a lifelong body of work
Note taking philosophies
- It's important to keep my note taking system simple
- Note maintenance can be a fun activity
- Smaller notes remain more correct
- Articles and Posts are published moments in time of notes
- Outline Notes are the basis of articles and longer form content
- Using tags as tags, not as folders
- It's important to regularly publish writing
Details of my note taking system
- § My notes taxonomy
- Fleeting Inboxes
- Working Notes
- Clippings
- Topic Notes
- Outline Notes
- Stubs
- Articles
- Posts
- Individual note structure
- Type
- Categories
- Tags
- Bear tags structure
- Other elements
- List of unicode characters used as prefixes for my note taking system
§ My digital garden
- ☒ My note taking, digital garden and blogging tool stack
- Private is a label for any topic notes
- How my note taking system and my digital garden co-exist
Note taking habits
- Note taking system habits
- Note taking system daily routine
- Note taking system weekly routine
- My reading system
- Note Taking Spring Clean
- ■ Leading through writing
Note taking automations
- Backlinks script
- Backup and syncing script
- Bear X-callback-url scripting
- Dataview Queries & Tricks
- AI authorship tracking in my vault
Issues
Inspiration
Further thoughts / reading / uncategorized:
- Reflections on notes organization
- Journal Entry - November 29, 2021 at 4.34pm
- Note taking apps with bidirectional links
- Reviewing annual journal entries as a form of spaced repetition
- ■ The role and importance of my note taking system as a founder CEO
- ■ Evergreen notes as a way to run a company
- ■ Evolution of notes in my note taking system
- My recommendations for exploring Zettelkasten and note taking systems
- ■ Ways to solve the blank page problem or writer's block
- ■ Linking vs tagging notes
- Book summaries in Obsidian
Archive / out of date notes:
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