Let structure emerge organically. When it's imposed from the start, you prematurely constrain what may emerge and artificially compress the nuanced relationships between ideas.
— https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Prefer_associative_ontologies_to_hierarchical_taxonomies
Nature has no outline, but imagination has.
— William Blake
The main premise is there though — notes are short, they usually contain one idea, even if I can't name it yet (this also leads to interesting note titles, like spreadsheets might be a wrong model, or understanding requires effort). Notes are interlinked through direct links, and automatic backlinks (via muninn
cli tooling). If I have a bunch of notes which seem related in some way, I create index note to collect them together, enforcing a specific point of view. Single note can be in multiple different indexes that way (connections are usually better than taxonomies).