📓 content/C- People naturally try to enact typed distinctions in their notes.md by @scalingsynthesis ☆

Authored by:: [[P- Joel Chan]]

Let’s start with articulating some desire paths we’ve observed. I’ll focus on Roam first because this is what the [[Discourse Graph Plugin]] hooks into, but we can also generalize to other settings.
- In [[Roam Research]]
  - [[@ Maggie Appleton]]‘s evergreen note system: https://maggieappleton.com/roam-garden
    - Loom
      - https://www.loom.com/share/8a17c7277f0442b8963e72a0475171a8?t=681
    - Maggie prefixes evergreen note titles with * to enable her to Efficiently retrieve high-signal conceptual building blocks for synthesis and writing
    - Some notes are tagged in-line as "seedlings" to guide attention (needs more work). These "seedlings" are integrated with a "writing inbox" practice adapted from Andy. This enables her to Incrementally develop ideas over time
    - She enhances this by applying CSS styles to enable visual distinction. This is a very common practice in the Roam (and larger hypertext notebook community; see, e.g., [[Obsidian]] supercharged links plugin: https://github.com/mdelobelle/obsidian_supercharged_links): https://maggieappleton.com/paintingroam
    - Note: Maggie’s [[Zettelkasten]] system is a synthesis with [[Evergreen Notes]]
    - https://youtu.be/RXXXHN516qc
  - [[@ Lisa Hardy]]‘s hyperfine village
    - Tweet
      - Lisa Hardy on Twitter: "OK, I made my "Hyperfine Village" into a public @RoamResearch database. Come take a look around, #roamcult! https://t.co/ukfvKbc8aW" / Twitter
        
        https://twitter.com/hardy_lisa_a/status/1293625272764264449
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    - https://roamresearch.com/#/app/hyperfinelabs/page/zNhX395Zu
  - [[@ Norman Chella]]‘s thoughtmine: https://thatsthenorm.com/thoughtmine/
    - It’s tuned to enable Norm to Incrementally develop ideas over time
  - [[@ Shu Omi]]‘s [[Zettelkasten]] system:
    - https://youtu.be/KmGrK1YxUPM
  - [[@ Beau Haan]]‘s Zettelkasten
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoddCmn3eL0
  - [[@ Maarten van Doorn]]‘s system
    - https://roambrain.com/the-complete-guide-to-effective-note-taking/
  - [[@ Lisa-Marie Cabrelli]]‘s "realization notes" and similar
    - influenced by
  - [[@ Maggie Delano]]‘s "hive mind" for [[syntopical reading]] https://www.maggiedelano.com/garden/syntopical-reading-in-roam
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- Outside Roam
  - [[Obsidian]] supercharged links plugin: https://github.com/mdelobelle/obsidian_supercharged_links
  - [[P- Andy Matuschak]]‘s [[sys/Evergreen Notes]], taxonomy of notes, and writing inbox practice
    - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Taxonomy_of_note_types
    - Writing inbox practice:
      - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z5aJUJcSbxuQxzHr2YvaY4cX5TuvLQT7r27Dz
  - [[@ Nick Milo]] distinguishing "Maps of Content" from evergreen notes
  - [[@ Eleanor Konik]]
Observations
- Typing unlocks affordances that people find useful for their knowledge work. A shortlist includes the following:
  - Incrementally develop ideas over time
  - Efficiently retrieve high-signal conceptual building blocks for synthesis and writing
  - Trace provenance of ideas to high-signal types of sources, including one’s own thought context, and references/literature
- There are pretty good workarounds and techniques for specifying types of nodes.
- There is significant diversity in the specific language used for the terms, including wholesale differences in metaphors
- Specifying types of relationships remains clunky.
  - This is where the [[Discourse Graph Plugin]] enhances things.