Note Taking

Local-first Software

Local-first means your device holds the truth; sync is optional icing.

Tags, categories, dates, aliases - metadata should help you find notes, not become taxonomy hell.

Mind maps are the messy first pass - export to atomic notes after, not instead.

Mobile capture: share sheet to inbox - save the spark before you scroll away.

Researchers need source notes and synthesis notes - never merge the two.

PKM organization is enough structure to find things - not a perfect folder tree.

PARA sorts notes by life responsibility - Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive.

Notes rot without review - calendar weekly and quarterly passes for inbox, projects, evergreens.

PKM is how you save, organize, and use what you learn - capture, organize, distill, express.

Control where your notes live, who can read them, and how they leave your machine.