https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/710585052769157141/761655649016217620 i use tags as a "state" manager mostly. #📥️ Seed box | items that i am / will be actively working on #🌱️ Seedlings | distilled from literature notes #🌞️ Incubator | items not yet ready for planting or in need of planting #🌲️ Evergreen | forest notes #:label: Tag Notes And finally some for just keeping important things find-able for me #✅️ Items that have tasks that i need to complete #:map: Maps of Content (the emerging organizational structure) #:gear: General utilities i use in this system #❗️ IMPORTANT i take my daily notes in my private journal (daily's) i put my normal content but i also say what i read/watched/listened to that day as incoming literature/content notes: today was a great day, i ate a chocolate muffin while reading [[How To Take Smart Notes]] by [[@Sohnke Ahrens]] now i have a link to [[How To Take Smart Notes]] & [[@Sohnke Ahrens]] on my link to the book i will put my literature notes using my media templates and it gets assigned the #📥️ tag as it is literature notes in my inbox to process then i make my notes, my pure thought notes which are new seedings #🌱️ and when i flesh them out and they are basically done just not densely linked or i have no where to file them yet, or they just need to be added to over some time then they are put into the incubator: #🌞️ until they are ready for planting, when they are densely linked and ready for "planting" in my evergreen forest they get a #🌲️because they are now my evergreen notes. on the graph now it can show me which notes are #🌱️ and #🌞️ and i can see where they may fit in in the macro view of my ZK graph my #:label: notes are what many usually use tags for like: #productivity, #business #python, #html, i use notes for this instead. because when the note itself gets a lot of linked references i can see the prevalence of that topic in my ZK, and having that file already makes it easier to set up MOC's like [[Programming]] that have links to [[python]] and [[html]] this allows me to easily deal with the emerging structure over time INDEX --> MOC's --> subjects --> jumping off point notes --> the minutia and with the graph filtering for files that dont exist, or tags it really makes this workflow nice for me as i can easily get down into the weeds of my content and material and get down to linking things up better over time. and with my #🌲️ notes i can start writing with an outline that could look like this: - topic - [[ADHD hyperfocus is a double edged sword of both deep work and avoidance]] - [[With poor executive function even activities you would like to do become difficult to approach]] - [[Tasks that are not atomized and cannot be finished in a single step are projects]] - [[cloze deletion improves memorization with context rich active recall]] - [[Bottom up writing prevents confirmation bias and provide a shorter and iterative feedback loop]] and makes it so i can just connect thoughts and flesh out the gaps and form those narrative stories in my writing or video scripts. p.s. this s*** is so fun