As my collection of notes grows, the structure evolves. Or rather: the structure becomes clearer. Here is how I have it structured at the moment.

This is all using Bear, my note-taking app of choice.

Fleeting

I’ve got those. I’ve got the Bear scratchpad.

Permanent

I have some index notes:

• object notes (e.g. Fastmail)
• concept notes (e.g. Fiction writing)
• top-level notes (e.g. Resources, Areas)

The rest are leaf notes:

• week­notes: Append-only. These are, in a way, somewhere between permanent and fleeting notes. They are never updated. But the thoughts written in them will evolve, and some of them will get a permanent note. When that happens, I update the original week­note with a reference to the new permanent note.

• literature notes (e.g. Book: On Writing (Stephen King): These are summaries of what I’ve learnt from literature. This lives in Bear, not in Zotero. To do: Tag these as different type in Bear, perhaps?

• regular notes (e.g. statements like Language must serve communication or questions like How can we build a great product?)