most notes begin as transient notes. transient notes = ideas captured quickly while not worrying about the quality of the actual note other than it’s ability to share the insight across space and time
but for them to develop into evergreen notes over time, you need a place to put these transient notes in and develop a practice which reliably drains that inbox
i take a lot of transient notes, specifically because i dont have an inner monologue and it’s extremely difficult for me to ruminate over my thoughts without writing it out and working it out while doing so
these are usually taken on bear because of these reasons
- i can open it extremely fast using a raycast shortcut ( super shift b )
- tags are folders so there’s no organizational work there.
- easy way to archive once the note has been handled
but one can not trust adding into the inbox if the inbox is not going to be handled
so i have a practice where every night after i am exhausted from the gym, i spend time writing about the work day, the mental gym session and then try to clear as much as i can from my inboxes — specifically the writing inbox since i find that i am most creative when i am exhausted at night
my writing inbox currently is just inbox
it has sections for
- MOCs which i can click into to review those notes and turn them into evergreen notes
- logs which are files which have logs in them which might require updates
- status is a property which is either active or inactive to filter out inactive files
- TODOs which search every file in the vault to find todos i have left inside notes
- PENDING which are just files which i want to get to someday but havent yet
- ACTIVE are files which are currently being worked on to become evergreen notes
related and references: tools for thought