- **Epistemic status:** #budding Organizing your [[Digital Garden]] should be an organic process organized by concept creating [[Atomic Notes]] instead by topic using a hierarchy. The strength of the [[Digital Garden]] relies on having a critical mass of [[Evergreen Notes]] with good quality, and by [[Densely linking notes]] we can avoid the rigid structure. Sönke Ahrens further argues in favor of having an organic structure: > “In the old system, the question is: Under which topic do I store this note? In the new system, the question is: **In which context will I want to stumble upon it again?**” (Sönke Ahrens, 2017) Having a rigid structure, for example by topic, you will need to organize them by that topic. Later on, you might need a sub-topic. This makes it harder to maintain as the [[Digital Garden]] grows since a specific topic might not have many notes, it will force you to add more. You might have ideas that relate to each other from different topics and won't have any idea how to classify them. This limits your creativity instead of helping you [[Deliver the most value]] missing important connections that can only be made when [[Linking notes]] by concept. There can be some level of centrality by using keywords. We can classify these notes by 3 categories: - [[Fleeting Notes]]: Quick snippets that you capture and convert later - [[Evergreen Notes]]: Permanent [[Atomic Notes]] - Project notes: Only relevant to a specific project. Can be discarded or archived later, --- ## References - Ahrens, Sönke. _How to take smart notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers_. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. - Andyʼs working notes. “Evergreen Notes.” Accessed August 4, 2022. <https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes>.