Outline Notes
Outline Notes are my implementation of Maps of Content notes.
Part of § My note taking system.
Concepts for Outline Notes
- An Outline Note will generally always be a list of other notes
- I start Outline Notes with the § symbol.
- Notes can appear in multiple Outline Notes
- If a note is important, it will eventually be listed in some sort of Outline Note, or be linked from other Topic Notes
- Outline Notes become the centralized notes in my decentralized system of notes. See Maps of Content.
- § Notes Index is my Outline Note of Outline Notes. The top-level note, the most central node of my system.
- Outline notes are stored with Topic Notes, they have no separate tag. The only thing that designates a note as an Outline Note is that it starts with §. This allows fluidity between states of a note.
Other ideas around Outline Notes
Inspiration
This is inspired by Andy Matuschak who uses the § symbol at the beginning of any MOC type note, and calls them “outlines”. Some really good insights from him in these notes:
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