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Optimized Note-taking

A tagging system to organize your notes

Note Taking Systems and Tags

Effective note-taking systems are a must for those interested in productive knowledge management systems. From Zetellkasten to the PARA system, there are many great options out there.

I am periodically looking to improve my pipeline of knowledge management, and, upon testing multiple systems for note taking, I realized the underappreciated value of tags for notes. So, in this post I will be sharing my tagging system to optimize your notes.

Types of tags

Tags are like micro bridges that allow you to give your overall knowledge storage a language to communicate high level organizational aspects of your notes.

For me, tags can be one of 3 types:

• Status
  Reflects the stage in which the note is in, given an implicit timeline of possible development states.
• Contextual
  Reflects the context in which a note was created like where you found the information…