Quartz 4

My Digital Garden

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Welcome

This is my personal knowledge base, organized using the ACCESS system.

🗂️ The Dashboard

🗺️ Atlas (The Knowledge)

Concepts and topics I am learning.

✂️ Clippings (The Inputs)

Notes from books, articles, and media.

🚀 Efforts (The Outputs)

Active projects and assignments.

📅 Time Travel

⚙️ System

You are using the ACCESS folder structure (specifically the variation popularized by Nick Milo of Linking Your Thinking). This is a powerful system designed to separate different “headspaces” so you don’t get overwhelmed.

Here is the breakdown of what each folder is for, followed by a Map of Content (MoC) template you can copy directly into your index.md.

1. The Reminder: What goes where?

  • + (Plus / Inbox):

    • Purpose: The “messy desk.” This is where everything new goes first.

    • What goes in: Quick capture notes, random ideas, fleeting thoughts you haven’t sorted yet.

    • Goal: Keep this empty. Move things out of here once you decide where they belong.

  • Atlas:

    • Purpose: Your “Library of Knowledge.” This is for timeless concepts and facts.

    • What goes in: Notes on Psychology, Philosophy, Statistics, or any subject you are studying. (e.g., Cognitive Science, Stoicism).

    • Think: “If I wrote a textbook, these would be the chapters.”

  • Calendar:

    • Purpose: Anything tied to a specific date.

    • What goes in: Daily notes, meeting notes, journal entries, “To Do” lists for specific days.

    • Think: “What happened on November 28th?”

  • Clippings (sometimes called Sources):

    • Purpose: Stuff other people created (Inputs).

    • What goes in: Highlights from books, articles, PDF attachments, podcasts notes.

    • Think: “This is reference material I didn’t write myself.”

  • Efforts (sometimes called Projects):

    • Purpose: Things you are actively doing or making (Outputs).

    • What goes in: Essay drafts, project plans, coding projects, thesis research.

    • Think: “This has a deadline or a goal.”

  • Assets:

    • Purpose: The “Garage.” Static files that support your notes.

    • What goes in: Images, PDFs, scripts, and other attachments.

  • x (Extras/System):

    • Purpose: The “Basement.” Boring system files you rarely need to touch.

    • What goes in: Templates, archive folders, old retired projects.

Why this works for you:

  1. Clean Navigation: It hides the scary folder names (x, Assets) at the bottom and puts the important stuff (Atlas, Efforts) at the top.

  2. Quartz Compatible: The callouts (> [!example]) will render as colored boxes on your website, making it look like a modern dashboard.

  3. Actionable: It separates “What I know” (Atlas) from “What I am doing” (Efforts), which is crucial for a student.

Action: Paste this into your index.md, run npx quartz sync (or build locally), and see how it looks!

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