#note/new # Notes - Emergence Levels Nick Milo describes the ARC ideation workflow process as *idea emergence* across various levels: sparks, ideas, notes, maps, and outputs. This is an appropriate way to think about the process of making notes and maps. It's a powerful combination that enables linking my thinking. ## 1: Creating notes from sparks Arc Browser, Reader, and Drafts really help me in Level 1 to capture all the individual sparks and interests and create notes with my ideas and thoughts (dots). Arc browser, Reader, and Drafts help me with Idea Emergence in Level 1 to discover and gather all those interesting sparks from the world around me. I have a few Arc browser spaces to help me manage the Add part of the ARC ideation workflow: Web (browsing), Read (reading), Focus (active work), Add (to Obsidian), and Efforts (for interests). I use Obsidian in Level 1 to make those unique atomic notes in my PKM system. ## 2: Linking related ideas At Level 2, Arc Browser helps me with collecting links as tabs and clustering them into groups related to my efforts. Level 2 is represented by all the links between those tabs discovered in my browsing focus. ## 3: Collecting and clustering notes into maps In Level 3, Arc Browser spaces and groups work nicely with LYT Efforts and Obsidian maps. Level 3 starts to emerge for these related links as I cluster their tabs into folders to move to the Add space. These folders of Markdown links are pasted into Obsidian maps or notes. ## 4: Connecting maps for organization and navigation For Level 4 & 5, Obsidian integrates my maps with each other and my Home note; Arc Browser integrates my maps and notes with external links from the internet web. At level 4, I might even gather related groups of folders together around a particular effort. ## 5: Sharing ideas with others In level 5, I use effort, topic, and output maps to guide the further development of notes as I shape them for sharing in my digital garden, website, and social media.