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Building a Personal API

Building a Personal API

Frontmatter and folders shaped so future you and scripts need no fresh briefing every time.

Building a Second Brain

Building a Second Brain

The head is for thinking, not storing - notes hold what would otherwise get lost.

Capture

Capture

Saves what resonates into one trusted inbox, then empties weekly.

Compounding

Compounding

Compounding is small gains stacked over time - the curve stays flat until it suddenly bends.

Context-Aware Capture

Context-Aware Capture

A saved link is a mystery six weeks later unless the why is jotted while memory is fresh.

Creative Blocks

Creative Blocks

Thousands of notes and the page stays blank - one small ship action usually unsticks the work.

Creative Output

Creative Output

Notes are inventory for me - posts, sermons, code, and dinner experiments are the point.

Daily Notes

Daily Notes

Today's scratch pad for fragments - promote what repeats, let the rest fade.

Digital Garden

Digital Garden

My garden is where notes grow in public - linked, imperfect, alive on Hugo and Git.

Digital Minimalism

Digital Minimalism

Notes sharpen when extra apps, sync layers, and unused notifications drop away.

Digital Serendipity

Digital Serendipity

Old notes surprise on schedule because links were made on purpose, not by luck.

Drafting in Public

Drafting in Public

Drafting in public keeps the garden honest with rough posts and feedback instead of private hoarding.

Evergreen Notes

Evergreen Notes

Phrase ideas worth standing behind in two years and revise when reality shifts, not when a trend spikes.

Evergreen vs Fleeting Notes

Evergreen vs Fleeting Notes

Sparks belong in fleeting notes; trusted claims belong in evergreen, with a clear path between them.

First Principles Thinking

First Principles Thinking

Rebuild from what you actually believe, not a quote filed as someone else line.

Future-Proofing Knowledge

Future-Proofing Knowledge

Future-proof notes with plain text, open tools, and exports tested before a vendor locks you in.

Graph View Analytics

Graph View Analytics

Graph view analytics reads the link map for orphans, over-connected hubs, and forgotten gaps.

GTD vs PARA

GTD vs PARA

GTD vs PARA runs tasks in one system and notes in another - cousins, not rivals.

Intellectual Sourcing

Intellectual Sourcing

Cite sources in notes to trust synthesis and find the original later.

Linking by Meaning

Linking by Meaning

Link notes so ideas meet in the graph without memorizing every folder path.

Local-first Software

Local-first Software

Local-first means my device holds the truth; sync is optional icing - backup should behave the same way.

Low Hanging Fruit

Low Hanging Fruit

The easy win available now - grab it before climbing for the hard stuff.

Maps of Content

Maps of Content

Hub notes get written by hand when one topic spreads across too many files to hold in memory.

Mental Models

Mental Models

Mental models are thinking shortcuts kept when they survive real decisions.

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