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title: C- People naturally try to enact typed distinctions in their notes
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Authored by:: [[P- Joel Chan]]

- Let's start with articulating some desire paths we've observed. I'll focus on Roam first because this is what the [[Discourse Graph Plugin]] hooks into, but we can also generalize to other settings.
    - In [[Roam Research]]
        - [[@ Maggie Appleton]]'s evergreen note system: https://maggieappleton.com/roam-garden
            - Loom
                - https://www.loom.com/share/8a17c7277f0442b8963e72a0475171a8?t=681
            - Maggie prefixes evergreen note titles with * to enable her to Efficiently retrieve high-signal conceptual building blocks for synthesis and writing
            - Some notes are tagged in-line as "seedlings" to guide attention (needs more work). These "seedlings" are integrated with a "writing inbox" practice adapted from Andy. This enables her to Incrementally develop ideas over time
            - She enhances this by applying CSS styles to enable visual distinction. This is a very common practice in the Roam (and larger hypertext notebook community; see, e.g., [[Obsidian]] supercharged links plugin: https://github.com/mdelobelle/obsidian_supercharged_links): https://maggieappleton.com/paintingroam
            - Note: Maggie's [[Zettelkasten]] system is a synthesis with [[Evergreen Notes]]
            - https://youtu.be/RXXXHN516qc
        - [[@ Lisa Hardy]]'s hyperfine village
            - Tweet
                - Lisa Hardy on Twitter: "OK, I made my "Hyperfine Village" into a public @RoamResearch database. Come take a look around, #roamcult! https://t.co/ukfvKbc8aW" / Twitter
                    - https://twitter.com/hardy_lisa_a/status/1293625272764264449
            - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmegacoglab%2Fj4TySbg_kn.png?alt=media&token=43f58b3c-5e70-4fc5-958d-e3d2f889d343)
            - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmegacoglab%2FaKBsQwbopq.png?alt=media&token=aa09ac2a-27cf-49e0-bbd8-0cdab135db0a)
            - https://roamresearch.com/#/app/hyperfinelabs/page/zNhX395Zu
        - [[@ Norman Chella]]'s thoughtmine: https://thatsthenorm.com/thoughtmine/
            - It's tuned to enable Norm to Incrementally develop ideas over time
        - [[@ Shu Omi]]'s [[Zettelkasten]] system: 
            - https://youtu.be/KmGrK1YxUPM
        - [[@ Beau Haan]]'s Zettelkasten
            - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoddCmn3eL0
        - [[@ Maarten van Doorn]]'s system
            - https://roambrain.com/the-complete-guide-to-effective-note-taking/
        - [[@ Lisa-Marie Cabrelli]]'s "realization notes" and similar
            - influenced by 
        - [[@ Maggie Delano]]'s "hive mind" for [[syntopical reading]]  https://www.maggiedelano.com/garden/syntopical-reading-in-roam
            - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmegacoglab%2FdbQur6sg1i.png?alt=media&token=a7ec75e8-31d2-4da4-994b-465a372ee73d)
    - Outside Roam
        - [[Obsidian]] supercharged links plugin: https://github.com/mdelobelle/obsidian_supercharged_links
        - [[P- Andy Matuschak]]'s [[sys/Evergreen Notes]], taxonomy of notes, and writing inbox practice
            - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Taxonomy_of_note_types
            - Writing inbox practice: 
                - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z5aJUJcSbxuQxzHr2YvaY4cX5TuvLQT7r27Dz
        - [[@ Nick Milo]] distinguishing "Maps of Content" from evergreen notes
        - [[@ Eleanor Konik]]
- Observations
    - Typing unlocks affordances that people find useful for their knowledge work. A shortlist includes the following:
        - Incrementally develop ideas over time
        - Efficiently retrieve high-signal conceptual building blocks for synthesis and writing
        - Trace provenance of ideas to high-signal types of sources, including one's own thought context, and references/literature
    - There are pretty good workarounds and techniques for specifying types of nodes. 
    - There is significant diversity in the specific language used for the terms, including wholesale differences in metaphors
    -  Specifying types of relationships remains clunky. 
        - This is where the [[Discourse Graph Plugin]] enhances things.