FfLAPa
FfLAPa is how I run my own work in Obsidian. One rule holds it together: notes are inputs to projects, not an end in themselves. Most systems turn into a “second brain” or a “knowledge garden” you that requires constant, fruitless tending; this one moves an idea from capture to output and gets out of the way.
Six tags are the whole vocabulary:
- fleeting: anything captured
- fragment: a fleeting note that earns a second pass
- literature: notes taken from a source, effectively a fleeting notes but from somewhere specific
- atomic: a finished, single idea
- project: output with a deadline
- archive: retired, and one-way
They run in one direction. A fleeting or literature sharpens into a fragment, then an atomic idea, then feeds a project. Anything that stops moving forward gets archived.
Structure is the part most systems get wrong. There is no master list of categories and no “map of content”. The graph is the index and it doesn’t lie. Centralized categories warn of an organization-over-output orientation. I call these hubs: Imagine a one note with lots of links coming off it, like a wheel with spokes. The goal is the opposite: Knots, which are clusters of interlinking, often disparate, notes. That’s where real connections are made.
This site is published out of a FfLAPa project: drafted in the vault, synced to the web.