PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) - The process of individuals making, using, organizing, connecting, combining, collaborating, and creating with their personal notes.
ACE - The Universal Mental Model for Knowledge Management - A framework based on three foundational head spaces: Atlas, Calendar, Efforts. Within the Ideaverse for Obsidian, this is applied through a unified structure for folders and links.
ARC - A framework based on the natural flow of ideas (Add, Relate, Communicate) to reclaim and master the core of your creative process.
Mental Squeeze Point - The point in any endeavor where the amount of information begins to overwhelm you. Either you overcome the squeeze point, or your project gets stuck.
MOC (Map of Content), pronounced (EM-OH-SEE) - A note that mainly has links to other notes, thus “mapping” the contents of multiple notes in your digital library.
MOCs help you gather, develop, and navigate your ideas.
Home note - Your Home note is your north star, navigating you to your MOCs. It keeps the entire system organized.
Ideaverse - Your notes connected. More broadly, the total of one’s mental landscape. An ideaverse is the universe of ideas that exists between your brain and every place you think.
Idea Emergence - The process of how the ideas you encounter go from the “nothingness” to the “somethingness”—and how those ideas grow in richness, complexity, and personally meaningful value over time.
Architects & Gardeners - A framework to understanding your current thinking style. Used to troubleshoot sticking points and even to get in alignment with team members.
Top-down Thinking - Starting with structure and a clear destination. e.g. A folder-based framework.
PRO: Keeps you on track.
CON: Stifles emergent thinking.
Bottom-up Thinking - Starting with a various ideas and connecting them organically.
PRO: Allows for emergent thinking.
CON: Can feel a little too chaotic at times.
Middle-out Thinking - Developing a fluid structure that creates simultaneous cycles of top-down and bottom-up thinking. e.g. LYT!
PRO: Encourages next level thinking.
BUT: Requires learning the technique and being able to balance structure/chaos.
Notemakers - Notemakers are people who spend their thinking time in an active, engaged way—making sense of the stuff they encounter.
Notetakers - Notetakers passively collect information rather than actively develop their ideas.
Fluid Frameworks - Any helpful framework, or structure, that helps but doesn’t hinder note retrieval and/or idea management. They are adaptable, fitting your evolving needs.
BOAT Note - BOAT stands for “Block of Atomic Thought” - a less defined note with fewer links, often recently created or not yet fully formed. As it develops, it may grow into a more robust evergreen note.
Evergreen notes - Evergreen notes are focused on a single idea and written mostly in your own words. They naturally accrue more links over time.
VLN - Very Long Note - A note that either by design or by development has become very long. It could possibly be refactored into several smaller notes but sometimes is great as is.
Refraction Thinking - Thinking about ONE thing, through the lens of ANOTHER thing.
Data views - Data views are special queries you can add to notes, most commonly by using the Dataview community plugin.