Note Maturity

Note Maturity

Notes pass stages from raw capture to trusted claim to archive - match effort to where the note actually sits.

Promote on Reuse

Promote on Reuse

Polish a note when it re-enters real work - not when it first lands in the inbox.

Typed Repair

Typed Repair

Broken closeness and settled standing are different breaks - name which one failed, then fix the right one.

Depth of Understanding

Depth of Understanding

Atomic ideas climb five depths of understanding - not three education tiers.

Take Smart Notes

Take Smart Notes

Ahrens treats writing as the work itself - linked permanent notes beat a panic draft at deadline.

Gate What You Consume

Gate What You Consume

What you read and watch becomes raw material for judgment - gate intake before output rots.

Reading the Garden

Reading the Garden

Learn in two lanes - wiki for understanding, cards for recall when life shows up.

Cap Today's Commitments

Cap Today's Commitments

Today's list should fit today's energy - three real wins beat twelve borrowed from tomorrow's fuel.

Follow the Rhythm

Follow the Rhythm

Reliable cadence beats sporadic heroics - the same small moves on schedule outperform panic sprints.

Active Reading

Active Reading

Read with a pencil in hand - mark, question, and extract before highlights die in the book.

Signature Move

Signature Move

The one practiced answer you reach for when the moment speeds up - on court and in a note.

Platform Reach Is Borrowed

Platform Reach Is Borrowed

Followers and algorithm reach are rented - steward the megaphone, own the vault.

OKF Export

OKF Export

Same garden flattened for agents - markdown paths, required type, no Hugo build.

Create Note

Create Note

Enter a topic; the prompt picks one atomic claim and asks for actionable examples in garden format.

Commonplace Book

Commonplace Book

Before linked notes, quotes and ideas lived in one book worth reopening.

Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done

David Allen's capture-clarify-organize loop turns scattered tasks into one trusted inbox with weekly review.

Inbox Zero

Inbox Zero

Process the inbox to empty each week - decide, do not hoard.

Information Diet

Information Diet

Choose feeds on purpose because algorithm defaults are not neutral.

Layered Reading

Layered Reading

One pass through a book is not absorption - return when more depth is needed.

Literature Notes

Literature Notes

After reading a source, write what stuck in your own words - not a pile of copied highlights.

Maintenance Window

Maintenance Window

Block garden time on the calendar so broken links do not ambush on a random Sunday.

Network Analysis

Network Analysis

Look at which notes connect everything else - those hubs show where the garden actually lives.

Read Later Queue

Read Later Queue

Save for later is fine until the queue turns into a guilt pile never touched.

Taxonomy

Taxonomy

Tags, folders, and types help find notes later - classification in service of retrieval.

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