Concepts

NetworkNotes is built from a few simple parts. Learn these and the rest of the system follows naturally.

The NetworkNote

The whole method is named for it. A NetworkNote is a note connected to at least one other note; it’s the thing you are actually building. Everything else here is either a part of it or a way of working with it.

The three primitives

• Note: a piece of information you want to retrieve later (any size).
• Link: a connection you draw between two Notes.
• Network: the whole that emerges from many connected Notes.

Seeing it: the NetworkMap

A NetworkMap is a visual representation of your Network (Notes as dots, Links as lines), so its structure (hubs, clusters, orphans) becomes something you can see at a glance.

The three principles

Three practices keep a Network healthy: connect, don’t just file, create, don’t curate, and concentrate, don’t accumulate. See The Three Principles.

Start with the NetworkNote; everything else explains it.