LYT Guide

🧠 Atlas (Your Knowledge Library)

Purpose: This is your permanent, timeless knowledge base. If you are learning a concept, saving a resource, or connecting ideas, it goes here. It is not tied to a specific date or an active project.

• Dots: The smallest units of your knowledge. These are your “atomic notes” or individual concepts. If you write down an explanation of a side-channel attack, a specific mathematical proof for Olympiad prep, or a summary of a networking protocol, it lives here.

• Maps (MOCs): Maps of Content are your dashboards. They group your individual dots together so you don’t lose them. You might create a “Cybersecurity MOC” or a “Physics MOC” that links out to all your related dot notes, keeping everything organized from a bird’s-eye view.

• Sources: The raw material you consume. If you clip an article, save notes from a YouTube video, download an NPTEL ethical hacking module, or take notes on a textbook, it goes here.

📅 Calendar (Your Time Tracker)

Purpose: This is for anything bound by time. If a note is primarily important because of when it happened, it belongs in the Calendar.

• Days: Your daily notes or journals. If you track daily habits, jot down quick thoughts on the fly, or plan your schedule, you do it in these daily files.

• Records: Logs of specific events. If you have notes from a specific meeting, a one-off PRISM India program session, or an event you attended on a certain date, it goes here.

• Reviews: Spaces for reflection. This is where you put your weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual review notes to track your progress over time.

🔨 Efforts (Your Action Center)

Purpose: This is where you actually do work. If it requires action, planning, or output, it belongs in Efforts.

• Areas: Long-term responsibilities or ongoing domains of your life that require maintenance but don’t have a final “finish” date. Your standard high school coursework, physical training and gym routines, or general household management notes go here.

• Projects: Active builds with a clear end goal and completion date. Your workspace for developing the ESP32 secure hardware key, building out the Sector Three Next.js app, or setting up a new Shopify storefront belongs here. Once the project is done, the folder is moved to an archive or “Sleeping” state.

• Works: Your final, polished outputs. If you write a blog post, publish a data-engineering breakdown of F1 race telemetry, or draft a formal petition to the school board, the final deliverable goes here.

⚙️ x (The System Folder)

Purpose: The backstage area. It holds all the messy gears and wires that make your vault run, tucked away so they don’t clutter your search results or graph view.

• Packs & Prompts: Additional plugins, frameworks, or writing prompts you’ve downloaded.

• Scripts: Any JavaScript or automation scripts for your vault.

• Templates: Your standardized formats. Whether it’s a template for a new daily note, a boilerplate for a coding project, or a specific layout for a meeting record, keep them here.

The beauty of this framework is that it lets you separate the stress of doing (Efforts) from the joy of learning (Atlas).

Which of these four main areas feels like the most natural starting point for the notes you are currently trying to organize?

🧠 Atlas (The Deep Dive)

Atlas / Dots

• People: Notes on specific individuals. If you are researching a specific cybersecurity researcher, or analyzing the work of a physicist for Olympiad prep, their profile goes here.

• Questions: Open inquiries you are exploring. Example: “How does tire degradation affect cornering speed?”

• Quotes: Verbatim quotes that resonate with you.

• Statements: Declarative facts or core principles. Example: A note titled “Side-channel attacks exploit hardware vulnerabilities” or a specific physics law.

• Things: Broad concepts, definitions, or tools. This is where you’d put your high-level notes on Kali Linux, Supabase, or LaTeX.

Atlas / Maps

• Bases: These are generally system files filled with Dataview queries that auto-populate your dashboards. You rarely write notes directly in here; they act as the “engine” for your Maps.

Atlas / Sources

• Books: Notes taken directly from reading, like your HBCSE and IAPT Olympiad books.

• Clippings: Web articles or reference material you’ve saved from the internet.

• Courses: Notes from structured learning, like your NPTEL Ethical Hacking modules.

• Games, Movies, TV, Talks, Papers: Media consumption notes. If you watch a documentary or read a whitepaper on local LLMs, you log your takeaways in the respective folder.

📅 Calendar (The Deep Dive)

Calendar / Days

• x (Archive): In LYT, the x folder always means “Archive” or “System.” When a year ends, you drag all those daily notes into x/2024 or x/2025 to keep your current view clean.

Calendar / Records

• Events: Notes from specific, date-bound occurrences. Your notes from the PRISM India program at IIT Guwahati belong here.

• Ideas: Fleeting thoughts you want to capture on a specific day before they vanish.

• Meetings: Logs of conversations. If you have a strategy session with Soumalya about the school curriculum petition, or an interview prep call with Andre Thibault, you record the date and the notes here.

• Nice Things: A simple log for gratitude or daily wins.

Calendar / Reviews

• 2024, 2025, x: This is purely for your weekly, monthly, or yearly reflection templates.

🔨 Efforts (The Deep Dive)

Efforts / Areas

• AOE (Areas of Effort): High-level dashboards for the domains of your life.

• Health: Tracking your running metrics, logging your 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM Push/Pull/Legs splits, or managing dietary routines.

• High School: Standard Class 11 coursework, syllabus tracking, and general school admin.

• Finance / Household: Ongoing life management.

Efforts / Projects

• Active: Things you are actively building with a finish line. The Sector Three Next.js app or the ESP32 secure hardware key project live right here.

• Simmering: Projects you’ve started but are currently on pause or waiting on external factors.

• Sleeping: Finished or abandoned projects that you want to keep for reference.

Efforts / Works

• Articles, Newsletters, Videos: Your final, published deliverables. If you write a blog post summarizing your F1 data engineering analysis, the final draft sits here.

⚙️ x (The Deep Dive)

x / Packs

• ACE Pack, Flight School: These are downloaded LYT framework guides. You can safely ignore or delete these once you know how the system works.

x / Templates

• Collections: Specific structural templates for different types of notes (e.g., a “Movie Template” or a “Meeting Template”).

• Master Keys: Advanced Dataview routing templates used to build out your Maps.

x / Visuals

• Excalidraw / Images: All your visual assets. Your custom physics diagrams, TikZ visual references, or UI mockups for your web apps stay safely in here.

x / x (The deepest system layer)

• Prompts: AI text generation prompts or journaling prompts.

• Scripts: JavaScript files (.js) that power automation plugins like QuickAdd or Templater.

(Note: In Obsidian, x at the bottom of any folder just means “hide this stuff away so it doesn’t clutter my workspace.”)

Your Vault Properties, Categorized

Category	Properties	Purpose
Core Metadata	aliases, tags, cssclasses, URL, URLs, ""	The foundational elements. aliases lets you link to a note using different names, and cssclasses applies specific visual styles to individual notes.
Dates & Timelines	date, created, createdd, modifiedd, year, premiered, published, encountered, evolved, releaseDate	Everything related to time. Keeping track of when an idea “evolved” or when you “encountered” a concept.
LYT Navigation & Linking	top, down, related, rank, mapState	The architectural wiring of the Ideaverse. These determine how your atomic notes link up to your Maps of Content, and how they rank in your Dataview queries.
People & Authorship	people, by, peopleGroups	Tagging the creators, authors, or collaborators associated with a specific note.
Media & Culture	rating, YearXP, yearXPL, bookGroup, bookType, publisher, culturalWorks, culturalEra	Your library database properties. YearXP and yearXPL are LYT-specific ways to track the “experience points” or impact a piece of media had on you in a given year.
Life Audit Metrics	Recreation, Environment, Body, Soul, Partnership, Family, Friends, Work, Finances, Mind, mindRating	These come from LYT’s “Wheel of Life” review templates. If you are tracking physical training and academic prep side-by-side, these integer properties let you rate how balanced different areas of your life are from 1 to 10.
System Tools	packVersion	Used by LYT to track which version of their framework you have installed.