Databases

Category: tool pattern

Summary: Structured collections of entries with fields, filters, views, and relationships.

What it means

Databases are useful when notes have repeatable attributes: books, contacts, projects, sources, experiments, or decisions.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

They connect to notion, metadata, dashboards, personal-crm, and research-workflow.

Common mistakes

• Putting every note into a database even when a plain note would work.
• Adding fields no one maintains.

Related pages

• notion
• metadata
• dashboards
• personal-crm
• research-workflow

Mentioned in

• — from Dashboards
• — from Notion
• — from Personal CRM