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Evergreen notes should be atomic

A shared idea. A note should only be about a single concept. It should try and capture the whole of that concept if it can. This revolves around finding a sweet spot for creating links between notes. There's a trade-off between being too granular and too course. Too granular and connections become noisey and hard to find. Too course and connections are muddy and unclear as to what they're about.

  • Evergreen Notes
    • Evergreen Notes[^1] are similar to Zettelkasten. Evergreen notes should be atomic, concept oriented, densely linked and prefer associative ontologies over heirarchy. Keeping a set of evergreen notes provides incremental insight which builds over time.