Exploring Andy’s notes

  • Daily scratch/log notes
  • Prompts and incomplete notes in the writing inbox
  • Evergreen notes
    • Stubs for backlinks
    • Simple definition notes
    • Precise, narrow notes; can be framed as questions
    • Higher level notes i.e. notes that abstract over groups of others or personally defined terms
  • Outline notes: pull together many related evergreen notes under one roof and more or less represent an outline of a topic

Note types outside the taxonomy: - Literature notes: titled after a source, meant mainly as a link to other durable notes and a backlink target. Andy calls these “outline notes but for someone else’s ideas” * I’ve seen both loose outlines of other sources, as well as more in-depth and descriptive notes about sources in Andy’s system. These notes don’t have to be super light. - Log notes: observations about a specific system or project over time. I tend to take this in my daily notes, and can view them as backlinks.

Me

the different kind of notes in a pkm

Literature notes

Taxonomy of note types