I’m constantly experimenting with it! The downside of it being so flexible is that it can take a while to figure out the best system.
At the moment, everything goes into one database called ‘Notes’. I enabled the ‘Created at’ and ‘Edited at’ properties. I also have multi-select properties for themes (e.g. rationality, productivity, economics, etc) and for type (e.g. random thought, blog idea, resource, article, tool, etc). I also have a checkbox property called ‘processed’ - and I filter the view of the table to only see the unticked items. Everything I add is by default ‘unprocessed’ (i.e. unticked) - this allows me to add stuff from the web (with the web clipper) and quick random thoughts without worrying about immediately sorting them. Every so often, I go through everything that is ‘unprocessed’ and sort it (add tags, finish reading it, add highlights or more notes, links to other notes, etc) and once I’m done I’ll tick the ‘processed’ box so it’s hidden from the default view.
I ‘favorite’ the notes I use most regularly (e.g. I have one called ‘useful info’ which has stuff like my health insurance number, wifi passwords, etc). Otherwise, I navigate by searching, or by filtering on certain tags.
I’m planning to gradually build this out into a relational system (e.g. creating a ‘project’ table and linking the notes to relevant projects, etc). I try to ‘organize opportunistically’ (as described in Part II C here—retrieved this from my Notes table in Notion!) as I find most of my attempts to impose a top-down structure are not flexible enough.
I’m constantly experimenting with it! The downside of it being so flexible is that it can take a while to figure out the best system.
At the moment, everything goes into one database called ‘Notes’. I enabled the ‘Created at’ and ‘Edited at’ properties. I also have multi-select properties for themes (e.g. rationality, productivity, economics, etc) and for type (e.g. random thought, blog idea, resource, article, tool, etc). I also have a checkbox property called ‘processed’ - and I filter the view of the table to only see the unticked items. Everything I add is by default ‘unprocessed’ (i.e. unticked) - this allows me to add stuff from the web (with the web clipper) and quick random thoughts without worrying about immediately sorting them. Every so often, I go through everything that is ‘unprocessed’ and sort it (add tags, finish reading it, add highlights or more notes, links to other notes, etc) and once I’m done I’ll tick the ‘processed’ box so it’s hidden from the default view.
I ‘favorite’ the notes I use most regularly (e.g. I have one called ‘useful info’ which has stuff like my health insurance number, wifi passwords, etc). Otherwise, I navigate by searching, or by filtering on certain tags.
I’m planning to gradually build this out into a relational system (e.g. creating a ‘project’ table and linking the notes to relevant projects, etc). I try to ‘organize opportunistically’ (as described in Part II C here—retrieved this from my Notes table in Notion!) as I find most of my attempts to impose a top-down structure are not flexible enough.