For each note/block, there is info of:
- secondary value:
- it is served best by tags
- it may be about:
- when the note was taken
- e.g. the date of a journal
- what triggered its taking
- e.g. reading a specific chapter of a particular book
- what TODOs it triggered itself
- etc.
- when the note was taken
- primary value:
- it may be about:
- What concept this note is about.
- served best by the page the note is in
- What connections it makes to other concepts.
- served best by inline references
- What concept this note is about.
- it may be about:
Dates are (very) convenient (and yet) illusions.
- Usually we are not immediately sure of what concept a note is about
- Until we decide, it is convenient to keep this note in the journal of the date of its creation.
- But a note may:
- have multiple candidates for its date:
- date of conception
- date of being written down
- date of some event it refers to
- could even be a future date
- be edited after its creation-date
- Such edits make its date less important.
- have multiple candidates for its date:
- This is just one more reason to move the note when we figure out its true destination.
- But not earlier.
- We may or may not leave behind a reference.
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