What I would personally do, two ways of storing captured information:
- All text-based things like news, reddit, emails, newsletters, go under `/articles`, either manually by creating an input note with QuickAdd or by having it automatically added by Omnivore
- Second way - if there is little highlights made from a source, I would personally transfer my highlights/notes into a related existing note or new permanent note and delete the source note. to still keep track of the source you got the information from, you can either create a footnote reference using [[Obsidian footnotes]]
Out of curiosity, what is the need for the `Organize` and `Distill` note for each input? Why not just have the AI summary as a header in the `Original` source note (in the template I have it's `## Summary` , and then your summary could be the creation of a new permanent note about the topic that captures your own thinking and understanding? Or is that what you mean by a `Distill` note?
What does each express note look like?
What kind of storage folders do you have that you move your `Distill` notes into? What if instead of folders, with the new permanent notes you can just only link them to maps of content or parent notes that represent these topics like in my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=445yxZbj4H4
For your misc part of your email, you hinted at needing the following:
- Processing information into actionable items
- I feel this can be done when you are doing the `Distill` part of your note, which will give you an understanding on what new tasks or projects you can start. Instead of immediately starting them there, you can create the tasks based on the organization you have in your Ticktick, or if it's a larger project with a lot of tasks or vague definition, you can create a new `Project ` note and then set the status to upcoming 🟧, so you can put it in the backlog and prioritize the weekly commitments you already have (unless the tasks are time sensitive for work where you can just make the project active immediately or use the information to assist you in an existing project). in this note, you can then link to the related `Distill` or `Originals` notes you made to prepare for when you start working on the project. once you have finished creating action items (or realizing that there are no action items), then you can set the status of the source to 🟩. then in your next weekly review you can review those upcoming projects and tasks and choose which ones you want to start for the week.
- organize the resulting knowledge for easy access and review
- i feel this can be supported with my weekly review process. with my weekly review note template, there is a query to show all created notes within the week. when you get to the `Reflection` header section of the note, you can then answer prompts based on your new notes. you can also create a new prompt to ensure this ease of access is accomplished, asking something like **Are all my new notes organized in a way using links that will let me retrieve them when needed for my projects or understandings of topics?** This where you can go through each note and follow something like the [[Information actionability hierarchy]]