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• GeoEng51

  July 21

  @notetaker said:
  I am taking classes on programming and cloud engineering. It seems difficult to store the info in an existing ZK vault as they don’t look related to what I want to do with ZK - which is to think about what I read.

  It depends on what software you are using. I use and am quite familiar with NotePlan. I have several different "vaults" of information, one for technical (engineering) information, one for personal history, one for health and one for a daily journal / plan. Each one is stored in its own, high level folder. But that doesn't stop me from linking from a note in one "vault" to a note in another "vault", as it's all being managed by NotePlan.

  Other software has similar capabilities.

  If compartmentalizing things in such a manner helps you to think clearly about the different areas of your life, all to the better!
• ctietze

  July 22

  @notetaker from my practice I cannot report any trouble with mixed topics in one vault.

  I remember being worried in the beginning somewhat, though.

  With scale, the way you interact with notes will change anyway, and then you may realize that it doesn't matter how many unrelated topics live in the vault because the entry points are topic-specific and by your own design anyway. (→ Structure notes)

  If you don't yet have gone beyond 1k notes, I wouldn't worry.

  Author at Zettelkasten.de • https://christiantietze.de/
• notetaker

  July 22

  @ctietze said:
  @notetaker from my practice I cannot report any trouble with mixed topics in one vault.

  I remember being worried in the beginning somewhat, though.

  With scale, the way you interact with notes will change anyway, and then you may realize that it doesn't matter how many unrelated topics live in the vault because the entry points are topic-specific and by your own design anyway. (→ Structure notes)

  If you don't yet have gone beyond 1k notes, I wouldn't worry.

  How do you store your structure notes so that they are not lost in the seas of atomic notes?
• Amontillado

  July 22

  @notetaker said:

  How do you store your structure notes so that they are not lost in the seas of atomic notes?

  This is a question I've had, too. One solution I hit on for The Archive, liberally tempered with inexperience, is to tag structure notes with #struct.

  In my musings, the title would be a unique timestamp followed by something subject specific.

  Search for #struct to see all the structure documents, search for #struct AND "subject goes here" for a more specific search.

  Is this a reasonable approach?
• Sascha

  July 22

  Is this a reasonable approach?

  Yes. My tag for structure notes is "##Ü2". You just need an arbitrary string that you can search for. Works perfectly fine with roughly 14k notes and 2100 structure notes.

  I am a Zettler
• GeoEng51

  July 22

  @Sascha said:

  @Amontillado said: Is this a reasonable approach?

  Yes. My tag for structure notes is "##Ü2". You just need an arbitrary string that you can search for. Works perfectly fine with roughly 14k notes and 2100 structure notes.

  I use the tag "#Structure" on all my structure notes as well. To be useful in a search, you probably want to have other tags that narrow down the search. You don't want to search for structure notes and then find you have hundreds of them. You want to find the one structure note that covers a specific topic you are interested in.

  For example, I've been writing a personal history for a couple of years (trying to remember all the funny or "educational" experiences of my youth, to pass on to my grandchildren). I have a structure note for that area, but if I want to find it quickly, I'd search on both "#Structure" and "#Personal_memories", combined.
• Amontillado

  July 22

  @Sascha said:

  Is this a reasonable approach?

  Yes. My tag for structure notes is "##Ü2". You just need an arbitrary string that you can search for. Works perfectly fine with roughly 14k notes and 2100 structure notes.

  Thanks, Sascha!

  @GeoEng51 said:
  I use the tag "#Structure" on all my structure notes as well. To be useful in a search, you probably want to have other tags that narrow down the search. You don't want to search for structure notes and then find you have hundreds of them. You want to find the one structure note that covers a specific topic you are interested in.

  For example, I've been writing a personal history for a couple of years (trying to remember all the funny or "educational" experiences of my youth, to pass on to my grandchildren). I have a structure note for that area, but if I want to find it quickly, I'd search on both "#Structure" and "#Personal_memories", combined.

  I think I like - time will tell - a hierarchy to tags. For instance, cities could be tagged something like #US-Texas-Austin or #UK-London.

  Something that's really fun with The Archive, though, is seeing how much organization can be effected without complexity. I don't want to overthink things.
• notetaker

  July 22 edited July 22

  Thanks Guys. For Reference Notes, do you all use another prefix to indicate the note is a reference note from a book or blog post or a course?
• GeoEng51

  July 24

  @notetaker said:
  Thanks Guys. For Reference Notes, do you all use another prefix to indicate the note is a reference note from a book or blog post or a course?

  Some do; I don't; just use a tag.