Note Taking

Getting Started

Getting Started

How my linked notes garden works on this site - atomic claims, wikilinks, and a public graph.

Graph

Graph

Force-directed map of how my notes link to each other.

Process Over Outcomes

Process Over Outcomes

Results matter - but optimizing only for outcomes wins once. Optimizing for a repeatable process wins again and again.

There Is No Perfect Solution

There Is No Perfect Solution

Waiting for the perfect tool, plan, or answer feels responsible. It's often the nirvana fallacy. Here's why I choose good-enough tradeoffs on purpose.

Active Knowledge Curation

Active Knowledge Curation

Saving links isn't curation. Here's how I try to keep notes useful - revisiting, pruning, and connecting what I actually care about.

Advantages of Digital Gardens

Advantages of Digital Gardens

A digital garden grows in public - messy, linked, alive. Here's why I prefer that over polishing every thought into a finished essay.

Analog Capture Tools

Analog Capture Tools

I love my wiki, but sometimes paper wins - meetings, sermons, the pocket notebook that survives a dead phone battery.

Anti-Fragile Systems

Anti-Fragile Systems

Fragile systems break when an app shuts down. I try to build note workflows that get stronger under stress - plain files, open formats, owned exports.

Associative Linking

Associative Linking

Folders sort. Links think. Here's how I use associative linking so notes meet each other without me remembering every filename.

Atomic Design for Notes

Atomic Design for Notes

Brad Frost's atomic design is for UI components. I borrowed the idea for notes - one idea per file, combinable later. Here's how that changed my wiki.

Categories
Tags