My note types

I have some index notes, which act as a hub:

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

The rest are leaf notes:

• week­notes: Append-only. These are, in a way, somewhere between permanent and fleeting notes. They are practically never updated.¹¹1 Exceptions exist: see Are week­notes ever edited?  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: These are summaries of what I’ve learnt from literature. These notes live in Bear (note-taking application), 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?)

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