organise everything by note type and not by topic
2026-05-24 00:55 Note Type: insight Tags: organisation, data, note-taking, thinking
Everything is organised by note type, not by topic. This is the single most important architectural decision in the whole setup and most people get it wrong.
When you organise by topic, a note about attention economics in crypto and a note about attention mechanics in gaming live in completely separate folders and never encounter each other. When you organise by type, they both land in the patterns folder and Claude can find the connection between them.
My folder structure has six subfolders inside Captures: observations, reactions, patterns, questions, numbers, and references. Every note goes into one of these based on what kind of thinking it represents, not what it is about.