Note

A Note is a piece of information you want to be able to retrieve later. That is the whole definition. There are no fixed types to sort it into (use your own, or none), and it does not have to be a single tidy idea.

Make it whatever size is useful

A Note can be atomic: one idea, stated plainly, like “spaced repetition improves retention.” It can just as easily hold everything you want to keep about a talk you gave, a course you took, or a meeting you sat in. You size a Note to the unit you’ll want to pull back later.

There’s a mild trade-off worth knowing, not a rule to obey. A small, single-idea note is easy to reuse: it can connect into many contexts without dragging unrelated material along. A larger, thematic note keeps related things together in one place. Neither is “correct.” Choose per note, and don’t agonise over it; that agonising is exactly the overhead NetworkNotes avoids.

Notes are working objects

A Note is “permanent” only in the sense that you keep it as long as it earns its place. When it stops being useful, rewrite it or delete it. A Note is a tool, not an archival record.

A Note earns its place by connecting

Size doesn’t make a Note valuable; connection does. A Note no one ever links to is an orphan: it exists, but it participates in nothing. The moment you give it a Link to another Note, it becomes a NetworkNote.

Next: the Link, how Notes connect.