Notes Organizing Principles

This note documents the principles to follow throughout the whole notes organizing systems.

Golden Rules

• Use built-in features whenever possible.
  • Use tags whenever possible, don’t define metadata.
• Use universal features whenever possible.
• Don’t be persnickety about all-in-one.
• Maximizing compatibility without sacrificing ease of use.
• Distinguish the things that wrote and things that you took note of.

Sections

What retrieved the same way, used the same way, shall stay in the same

place.

• Emphasis - How to emphasize things, e.g. bold, italic, etc.
• Categorization - How to categorize things, e.g. tag, folder, sections, type.
• Naming

Platform

• Obsidian Organizing Principles
• Notability
• Notion
• Zotero
• Cubox
• Flomo

Methodology

• P.A.R.A proposed by Tiago Forte.
• LATCH Approach