<aside> <img src="/icons/light-bulb_gray.svg" alt="/icons/light-bulb_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Notes are atomic Each note should hold a single bit of information. It could be a paragraph or a couple of sentences. The point is to have, as nearly as possible, just one thought per note.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/home_gray.svg" alt="/icons/home_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Each Note Has a Home Every note has a distinct home in the filing system, so you can easily find it when needed. Luhmann didn’t believe in arranging his notes topically because that could limit a note’s usefulness. A guinea pig — is it a pet, an experiment or food? Once you start thinking of a guinea pig in one context, it’s hard to see it in any other.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/link_gray.svg" alt="/icons/link_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Notes Link to Other Notes For example, a note about a science experiment could link to a note about guinea pigs. In this respect, Luhmann’s note-taking system resembled. Relations to notes are one-way
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<aside> <img src="/icons/tag_gray.svg" alt="/icons/tag_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Cross Reference Keywords (tag) Luhmann kept a cross-reference guide to important keywords from each of his notes. This way, if he wanted to find information about “pets”, he could look at the reference sheet and find IDs for all his notes related to pets. And that’s about it. See for this
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