#distill

Evergreen Notes.md

A system of developing comphrensive notes over time as your knowledge on a topic builds.

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Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research [Programmable Notes]

Three stages of notes

1. Seedling note - ideas that are rough, unrefined, and still need a bit to grow
2. Budding note - revised and worked on a bit. starting to grow but still need refinement.
3. Evergreen note - ideas I've invested significant time into. Edited, refined, and won't significantly change except for a few trimmings.

Similar to the ZettelkastenZettelkasten
#capture
A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thou... system

### Evergreen notes should be:

• Atomic

  • Capture one single idea consisely and in its entirety.
  • This allows you to reuse, remix, and recontextualize notes across projects

• Densely-linked

  • Connect your notes thorugh organic associations, rather than heirarchical structures

• Imperative & Declarative Titles

  • Make titles that are statements, clear instructions, commands, orders, or directions

• Concept oriented

  • Create notes based around concepts and big ideas, rather than specific books, articles, events, and media