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Kamran Soomro's avatar

Tbh I think at the end of the day all these different organisation methods are mostly interchangeable. The one benefit I see in tags is that you can associate a note with multiple notes rather than just one which isn’t easy to do with folders.

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Stephen Klusza's avatar

I've struggled with what to put in daily notes consistently. I have seen many people use it to document what they did that day, but in my hands, it feels either redundant (since I have the equivalent amount of detail in its own note) or superfluous (yeah I know I paid the bills, my accounts shrunk accordingly). This was also a symptom of my earlier ventures in setting a PKM workflow that was either too regimented and stifling (too many folders) or too loose and unorganized (just links and tags).

I took Nick Milo's advice and started building the vault from the ground up, testing what I use in terms of plugins and templates and figuring out the right amount of organization that feels satisfying without precluding the ability to discover links between notes. Nick had mentioned the ACCESS framework a couple of times and that is the one that I've settled on quite happily as a middle ground between folders and tags/links. My daily notes are officially a taskboard (setting up different dataview queries to search for tags like #work, #home, etc in callouts) with a section under for New Tasks if I think of other tasks to add quickly and they remain in the Daily Notes folder. If I have spontaneous ideas to write down as fleeting notes, I take advantage of the core plugin Unique note creator to use a minimal template to jot things down and placed into an Ideas folder. The cool thing is that Daily Notes have a YYYY-MM-DD format, while the fleeting notes have the Zettlekasten prefix YYYYMMDDHHmmss, so it's easy to differentiate between the two. Next thing I am considering is using the Dice Roller plugin to show a random fleeting note from the Dieas folder at the bottom of my Daily Notes template, so it makes a fleeting notes link visible, in case I have time to revisit it and change it to a regular note or scrap.

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