Index notes

Category: navigation concept

Summary: Notes that act as entry points into a set of related notes.

What it means

Index notes help users find their way through a growing system. They are less about hierarchy and more about orientation.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

They connect to maps-of-content, dashboards, folder-structure, tagging-strategy, and retrieval.

Common mistakes

• Creating indexes for every topic without maintaining them.
• Using indexes instead of search when search would be enough.

Related pages

• maps-of-content
• dashboards
• folder-structure
• tagging-strategy
• retrieval