NetworkNote

A NetworkNote is a Note (a piece of information you want to remember for later) connected to at least one other Note.

It is the unit the whole method is named for. A Link is the connection you draw; a NetworkNote is what a Note becomes the moment you draw one.

A connected Note, not a lone one

On its own, a Note is raw material, a fact in isolation. Give it a Link to another Note and it stops being isolated: it now has a way in and a way out, and it can be reached from ideas you haven’t had yet. That connected Note is a NetworkNote. (An unconnected Note is an orphan, a NetworkNote-in-waiting.)

What you’re actually building

You don’t really collect notes; you grow NetworkNotes. Every act of capture makes a Note; every act of connection turns one into a NetworkNote. The health of your system is simply how much of it has made that jump, which is density over volume seen one note at a time.

NetworkNote vs NetworkNotes

A word on names: NetworkNotes (plural) is the method; a NetworkNote (singular) is its unit. The method is called what it is because the practice is exactly this: turning loose notes into connected NetworkNotes.

Next: the Note, the raw material every NetworkNote is built from.