+ ACE Pack

+ - Atlas - Calendar - Efforts - x

ACE - The Universal Mental Model for Knowledge Management is made to work with links—and to last a lifetime. This pack is your guide to learning the ins and outs of ACE.

Video

ACE works for beginners and advanced users. It works for both people who want a ready-made system and those who want to customize every aspect of it. For an overview, start in with ACE - The Universal Mental Model for Knowledge Management, then jump to how ACE honors your 3 headspaces, and then finish with how ACE helps you switch context.

Lessons

• How + works
• How Atlas works
  • How the Dots folder works
  • How the Maps folder works
  • How the Sources folder works
• How Calendar works
  • How the Days folder works
  • How the Records folder works
  • How the Reviews folder works
• How Efforts work
  • How the Areas folder works
  • How the Projects folder works
  • How the Works folder works
• How x works
  • How the Packs folder works
  • How the Templates folder works
  • How the Visuals folder works

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Installation & Quick Start

This pack comes with Ideaverse Pro 2.0. It should already be in x/Packs/.

If you want to add this pack to another vault, just copy over this parent folder.

Dependencies

No plugins or themes are required, but a few will give you the best experience.

• Required:
  • None
• Recommended:
  • Plugins:
    • Dataview. It will render results in many notes based on where those notes live in the ACE folders.
  • Theme:
    • LYT’s “Soft Paper” theme via the AnuPpuccin theme. It colors each folder in a distinct way.

Usage Spectrum

Here are different approaches to using this pack, from simple to complex.

• Level 1 (🍃 Lightweight) - Just use the root level folders. Throw any note into one of the five folders: +, Atlas, Calendar, Efforts, x. Don’t do anything else.
• Level 2 (🌞 Enlightened)- Slowly get comfortable using more and more of the subfolders.
• Level 3 (🌈 Illuminated) - Use templates for different types of notes.
• Level 4 (🌠 Supernova) - Leverage collection notes and other queries.

Credits/Attribution

• Created by: Nick Milo
• Contributors: Keaton Sondreal, Dan Lardi, Karen Hume, John Mavrick
• Special thanks: To the early Obsidian community and many people who’ve shared feedback on previous versions. I listen to everything I can.

License/Terms of Use

This pack is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

You are free to:

• Share — Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes only.

Under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
• NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
• No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

You are NOT permitted to:

• Use this pack commercially or for profit.
• Claim ownership or authorship of this pack.
• Modify and redistribute altered versions.
• Sell or commercially distribute this pack or altered versions as your own creation.

Attribution format example:

“ACE for Organization, Knowledge Pack” (Version 1.0) by Nick Milo & LYT, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.”

Changelog

• 2025-04-16 - Released

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Version 1.0
Last updated: 2025-04-16