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The ideas · ten chapters

Notes should move.

Most systems are good at saving and bad at using. Sylvics turns “I saved it” into “I know it” and “I did it”, with a handful of old, proven ideas. Each chapter takes about two minutes and has something to try.

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Start with the golden rule. The rest follows from it.

1vault, and one golden rule

2systems: PARA, extended, and a Zettelkasten, adapted

3modes: Knowledge, Action, Reflection

10rules you meet as you go

01 One rule, three keystonesOnly three things are asked of you. Tune a daily note and feel the golden rule. 2 min 02 Three modes, three servicesLearn, do, review. Switch one off and watch what breaks. 2 min 03 Modes in motionSix flows between three modes. Mix your week and watch what grows. 3 min 04 The LoopSeven verbs, one real project. Then a game: fetch the smallest thing. 2 min 05 PARA, extendedProjects, Areas, Resources, Archive, and what Sylvics adds. Sort seven notes. 1 min 06 A Zettelkasten you can keepA filter, not a conveyor belt. Watch a year of reading fall through it. 2 min 07 Ideas compoundA year of real notes, replayed. Links grow faster than ideas. 2 min 08 Nothing stays by accidentWalk a note through its life, then watch one fade when nobody tends it. 2 min 09 The weekly heartbeatSimulate two months of an Inbox. Then learn the Return, for weeks that go wrong. 2 min 10 The ten rulesEverything above in ten short rules. Then eight situations to test yourself. 2 min

Credit where due

Old ideas, carefully arranged.

None of this was invented here. PARA is Tiago Forte's method; Sylvics uses an extended version. The Zettelkasten is Niklas Luhmann's practice; Sylvics uses its own adaptation. Learn, do, review is older than any of us. What Sylvics adds is the arrangement: one vault where these methods hand work to each other, and software that keeps them moving.

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