Apple's Notes

PKM note types

PKM note types

  1. information-based: content, reference, keyword, excerpt, theorem, notation, references
  2. problem-based: method, exercise, example, approach, log, how-to guides
  3. learning-based: idea, aside, question, perspective, experiment, disambiguation, tutorials
  4. understanding-based: draft, concept, literature, project, plan, report, experience, discussions

Notes

  1. creative-writing-based
  2. documentation-based
  3. theory vs question
  4. Bloom’s taxonomy
  5. Nick Ang’s gardening analogy
  6. info: for referencing (free up stuff in the brain) or remembering (memory)?

Ideas

  1. atom: page that contains a single idea; often links to related things
  2. overview: page that overviews a topic, bringing atoms together for better reference (also: MOC or index)
  3. article: page that covers a specific topic, bringing atoms together to explain something specific
  4. list: page that lists out something
  5. note: page that contains notes on a subject. Generally has a source.
  6. diagram: text annotation of an image.
  7. subject: page that encompasses an entire subject, with other pages linking to it. (distinguish from overview and article?)
  8. meta: templates, documentation
  9. other: page that cannot be categorized by the other types

Bloom’s taxonomy

  1. knowledge notes: contains bare information that exists to be referenced by later ideas.
    1. Citation, quote, reference, excerpt, keyword and definition, how-to guides
  2. compre notes: contains organized information that aids to learning/understanding step.
    1. Literature, summary, fact sheet, overview, glossary, MOC, index
  3. application notes: contains organized knowledge being applied to a specific problem, question or topic. Requires personal engagement or practice by me
    1. Application, experiment, project, plan, experience, log, exercise
  4. analysis notes: contains a specific topic (possibly a question or problem) that will be explored, answered, supported or challenged by other notes
    1. Article, compare and contrast, annotations, hypothesis
  5. evaluation notes: contains
    1. Reaction note, RRL
  6. synthesis notes: contains new ideas that bridges other, existing references together

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