Zettelkasten/Patterns
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Daily Page Pattern
The Daily Page Pattern consists of creating a page named [[YYYYMMDD]] that collects all of the notes for a given day.
See Zettelkasten/Patterns/Daily Page Pattern for a detailed explanation of the pattern.
See 20160101 for an example of what a daily page looks like.
Monthly Template Pattern
The Monthly Pattern consists of a special month template, consisting of the month and year (like {{January2016}} for example) that contains links to all of the daily pages for that month.
See Zettelkasten/Patterns/Monthly Template Pattern for a detailed explanation of the pattern.
See {{January2016}} for an example of what a daily page looks like.
Page Organization Patterns
We use three patterns to help pages stay organized and keep from becoming scattered:
- Reserve top-level headers for meta-level page organization (different sections for different uses of the page)
- Take notes chronologically in a top-level Notes section
- Move information to sub-pages as it accumulates or requires more room
See Zettelkasten/Patterns/Page Organization for a detailed explanation of these patterns.
Todo Lists
Combine several of above patterns, apply them to todo lists
- When creating a Todo page, add top level sections: Overview, Planned, Todo, Done, Notes
- Start with the notes
- Move on to the plan
- Implement todo items as you work your way through plan
- Top level sections: Overview, Planned, Todo, Done, Notes
- Second level sections: date
- Third level sections: topics
- When starting to work on a todo item, create second level date section, and third level topic section
- Take notes in that subsection
- Overview is usually added last, revised over time, contains important summary of information
- Example: if setting up a VPN network on a server, take notes on the server's todo page
- notes for how VPN was set up are organized by date
- if you take multiple days to set up the VPN, notes organized chronologically then topically
- if you come back in six months to fix one thing, notes are still organized together, still chronological