Fleeting notes

Category: note type

Summary: Temporary notes used to capture thoughts quickly before they are processed.

What it means

Fleeting notes are short-lived. They protect an idea from being lost but are not meant to become permanent without review.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

They connect to inbox, capture, daily-notes, permanent-notes, and weekly-review. A good system makes it easy to process or discard them.

Common mistakes

• Letting fleeting notes accumulate forever.
• Treating quick fragments as finished thinking.

Related pages

• inbox
• capture
• daily-notes
• permanent-notes
• weekly-review