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one type of note to be aware of in the zettlecauston system is the fleeting
note fleeting nodes are probably the most plentiful in the zettle costume
or in any type of personal knowledge management system but they're also kind of the least valuable
because fleeting notes are thoughts and ideas that don't have much shape or form yet
let's think of leading notes in the context of the getting things done methodology by david allen
if you're familiar with that at all you start off by capturing your thoughts capturing things to do
and that's essentially what we're doing with the taking fleeting notes is we're just capturing
things that we're thinking about so as you can see here on my daily note that i have
today i'm thinking about fleeting notes i like to think
leading notes in the context of gtd capture okay these are fleeting notes because these
are thoughts that i'm having but they're not necessarily totally fleshed out into these broad
permanent notes that i'm incorporating into a zettle constant type workflow
these notes do belong in your system but long term they need further development to be
of much greater use now granted some notes can be just a quick sentence and they're
full of gold they're a gold mine of information but a lot of times when we have off the thoughts
which is what fleeting notes are that process in my mind is akin to taking a
rough diamond and then cutting it into a beautiful stone you know that that thing
is something of value but it takes a little bit of time and effort to develop it into the
finished product so that leaves some questions first and foremost how do you capture them
well for one you can use your daily notes inside of obsidian
that's what i like to use inside the workflow to gather these fleeting thoughts you can
also use a notebook and then transfer them into your vault at a later point in time
i personally use a notebook to capture thoughts and ideas that i have as well as tasks for the day
and then i will transfer anything that's relevant to my obsidian vault at some point during the week
the other thing you can do is you can use an app like drafts on the iphone drafts is an excellent
quick capture application for text it's free with a premium tier if you need a lot of the extra
automation functionality but a lot of times i'll just pop open my phone open up drafts and i'll
just type my quick notes in there and then when i'm back at a computer i will either pull open
drafts on my mac or i will just take a note of what's in there and i'll either just transcribe
it from my phone and retype it on my computer or something of that sort so they can live in
your daily notes you can use a notebook someplace else that you can use to capture them if you're
especially looking at trying to keep them more temporarily is to use a type of scratch pad note
so how you can do that is you can just create a brand new note you can title it scratchpad
then instead of leaving it just in your side pane over here where you can browse to it or using the
open command o for opening what you can do is you can actually drag this over into the sidebar
so then if i just title this
scratch pad for my own reference anywhere that i'm at inside of my obsidian vault
i have a scratch pad and it acts just like a note so if i write down i need to make a video
video on permanent notes then it's there so if i find that over here scratch pad you can
see works just like that if i open up the knowledge graph and find the scratch pad
see it shows up there as well so it's very powerful to be able to have the scratch pad
in the sidebar to take notes how do you contextualize these that is probably the
most important thing especially if you're going to come back to them at a later point in time
while there's a couple things you can do here first thing as you can see here in the scratch
pad and in my daily note that i have these wiki linked notes if you know that there's a thought
you need to come back and develop inside of those notes you can just click into that and one way
you can leave yourself a little breadcrumb to know that you have something to do there
is you can use something like a to-do tag so what i will do is i'll just put to do there and you can
see it comes up in the tag pane over here and then when you click on that it filters and shows all
of the notes that have that tag if i do the same over here you can see if i redo the search whoops
that fleeting notes and permanent notes show up there as something
that i need to flesh out a little bit further you could also do that in line
as well by just saying to do and then you can see it here in the search that pops up that
well today i'm thinking about fleeting notes you know that you might have something that you need
to flesh out further another approach that you could take is you could also do a wiki-linked node
just say to do there instead of a tag what's helpful about this is that instead of seeing it
in the tag search over here you can see it in the backlinks pane so if we open up the backlinks pane
on the to do note you can see that i have that in context there as well and i can browse straight
to it there's lots of different ways that you can contextualize these notes it's important to keep
them contextualized simply because that's how you discover them again now there might be fleeting
notes that are just fleeting and that's okay you don't necessarily have to take everything into
your vault and craft it into some beautiful piece of literature that you're proud of this can be a
place for you to dump ideas dump thoughts and not necessarily come back and access them at a
later time however that is what is powerful about unlinked mentions and about the knowledge graph
inside of obsidian the search features is that you can stumble upon fleeting ideas and thoughts that
you had previously that you're like eh that wasn't really all that useful you can stumble upon them
again and maybe at a later point in time for yourself that idea has a brand new context a
brand new value to you and then you'll want to take that and develop it further at that time
so
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