Documentation Vault Guide

Vault Structure Guide

Folder Purposes

Folder	What Goes Here	Don’t Put Here
01 Sources	Original material: PDFs, articles, reports, interviews	Your own thoughts
02 Literature Notes	Reading notes: one per source	Multiple sources in one note
03 Permanent Notes	Your own ideas: one idea per note	Long summaries of sources
04 Projects	Active work: charters, frameworks, case studies	Finished outputs
05 Outputs	Completed work: essays, papers, presentations	Drafts (keep in Projects until done)
99 Templates	Note templates only	Regular notes
99 Archive	Old versions, deprecated notes	Active work
00 Documentation	Guides and conventions	Research content

Note Types

Type	Used In	Purpose
source	01 Sources	Original material metadata
literature-note	02 Literature Notes	Reading summary and analysis
permanent-note	03 Permanent Notes	Your own original idea
project-note	04 Projects	Active research work
dashboard	Any folder	Dataview overview tables
documentation	00 Documentation	Guides and how-tos

Naming Conventions

• Sources: Author Year - Title or PL-### for internal sources
• Literature Notes: PL-### Author Year - Title
• Permanent Notes: Descriptive phrase in your own words
• Projects: PL-### Project Name
• All notes: Use - between words, not spaces if possible

Metadata Standard

Every note begins with:

---
type: [see table above]
id: [PL-### or leave blank for auto-generation]
created: YYYY-MM-DD
tags: []
status: [unread/reading/draft/review/done]
---