Topic:: note taking
Summary::
Evergreen note taking is a style of note taking associated with networked though. Evergreen notes, like an evergreen tree, are 'designed' to accumulate usefulness over time
Notes::
For me Evergreen Notes evolve from a loose 4 stage process
blank placeholder pages with no information that may one day grow into an evergreen or maybe never sprout
the brain dump stage
sense is being made out of the brain dump and a structure is emerging
well on its way to being a true Evergreen Note and at a stage where it could be understood by the outside world
I've been thinking about Person/Maggie Appleton's Digital Garden and her analogies for the growth of Evergreen Notes.
John A. Taylor has another interesting way of organizing notes in Roam Research on the way to Evergreen Notes
notes should be an open stream running through your Digital Garden from source material to Evergreen Notes
well on its way to being a true Evergreen Note and at a stage where it could be understood by the outside world
I see a lot of people implimenting different systems to give pages types. Systems like PARA, Person/Maggie Appleton's modified Evergreen Notes system, etc. Even within my own Roam Research graph I have pages for all types of things including: