Future-proofing

Category: system quality

Summary: Designing a knowledge system so it remains usable as tools, projects, and needs change.

What it means

Future-proofing favors clarity, portability, review habits, and simple structures. It does not require predicting the future perfectly.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

It connects to portability, plain-text, backup-and-export, folder-structure, and note-refactoring.

Common mistakes

• Trying to build the perfect system for every future scenario.
• Depending on features that cannot be exported.

Related pages

• portability
• plain-text
• backup-and-export
• folder-structure
• note-refactoring

Mentioned in

• — from Plain text
• — from Portability