Using the editor in The Archive as surrogate for Hub notes
I apologize if this idea is too obvious or already discussed in the Forum. But as my collection of Zettels and keywords have grown, I felt I needed further organization. Structural notes would be one solution. But, I produced a "mind-map" of my keyword collection and was able to refine it down to 6 "hubs" which could also be referred to as "major keywords". All other keywords can be placed as sub-categories under one of those hubs. Now I am going back through all notes and adding as a keyword #_HubTitle. The underscore was needed since the editor is not case sensitive. Using the hub title of "Language" as an example, when I used #Language in the editor, all notes with a previously placed keyword of #language appeared in the list. But with #_Language, only those notes were listed for which I had added the new major keyword of #_Language. For me, it was very possible that a given note with the previously placed keyword #language might fit better under one of the other "hub" categories. One can use links to connect notes that lie in different hub categories. The editor can be used in a variety of ways to carry out searches. By putting the name of an idea or topic in the editor, all notes containing that specific name anywhere in the text will appear. Alternately, by putting #name, then all notes with that keyword will appear, regardless of hub category. I hope this is helpful as I have found the editor to be a very powerful tool for organization, searches and reducing (but not eliminating) the need for structural notes.
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