Types of Notes

There are several types of notes I intend to create and nurture here.

• Concepts
• Ideas: Thoughts connected in a specific way
  • My own ideas
  • Ideas of other people
• Ideas formulated as claims ("epistemic status" within the note points to how credible I think the idea is)
• Questions: Questions that emerge that I want to have an answer for but don't – or the answer is super speculative.
• Notes that structure other notes, aka Maps of Content
• Stubs: To start this, I'm planning to build a first "skeleton" of this digital garden. This means a high number of notes with meagre content, to build the basic structure with the core ideas. These notes may contain one sentence, a paragraph, or a bullet list.
  • It would be cool if I can link as many of these together as early as possible.
• Events: Something that happens and is relevant to a topic. Can be in a day, several days, weeks or longer. #type/event
• Logs: Journals or logs with date stamps (I have lots of those in my private vault)
  • People
  • Exercise/Health
  • Certain Topics
  • Projects

In the beginning I will not label my notes with these – and I may never. This is just a rough list for me to keep up what types of notes there are.

Inspired by: Andy Matuschaks Taxonomy of note types (My approach differs in that I don't have a systematic or hierarchical approach with my notes.)