🛠️ Rules for this vault

💡 Use Case

• One page, written on Sunday 5 January, the same afternoon as 📜 Use this system for ninety days without changing it. It says what I may not change and where the urge goes instead.
• Four systems before this one each died of improvement. See 🧠 The tool is never the problem, which I believe on most days.
• Reviewed once, on 5 April, and extended for the year without edits.

How I use it

May not change

1. Folders, templates, properties, note types. No structural changes.
2. Plugins and themes: none added, none removed.
3. The hotkeys and searches in Vault hotkeys and saved searches. Eight and four. Changing them counts.

Must do 4. Inbox processed on Sundays. 5. A literature note within a week of finishing a source, or not at all. 6. A permanent note only when I can state a claim. 7. Every urge to change something goes on the itch list with a date, and stays there.

Around it

• Backed up to 💳 Cloud storage; the restore was tested once.
• What a language model may and may not do in here is on its own page: House rules for using a model.

⚖️ Pros & Cons

Pros

• It fits on one screen, so I cannot claim to have forgotten a rule.
• The itch list turns I must fix this now into a line of text. Nineteen lines by April, and I wanted none of them a month later.

Cons

• It is a rule against my favourite hobby.
• It does not say what to do when a rule is simply wrong. So far none has been, which proves less than it seems to.

🔄 Alternatives

• Willpower, which lost four times.
• A fifth system of my own design. It would have been ready by about March and I would have written nothing in it.