#output/page # Atlas (Knowledge) The *Atlas* folder contains my notes about ideas, knowledge, and information. It contains main subfolders for `Notes` (knowledge & ideas), `Maps` (main maps & navigation hubs), `Views` (workflow processing), and `Works` (packages & outputs). Also, since I have a major focus on integration, I keep my notes about applications under an `App` folder. There are just a few subfolders for major types of knowledge. ## Notes All my notes are located in the [[Atlas Notes Folder|Atlas Notes]] folder as *dots* in my *Ideaverse* web of ideas, information, concepts, things, and statements. I prefer to call them Notes, rather than *Dots* like Nick who uses it as a generic collection of connected atomic notes (or "dots"). ## Sources I keep notes captured from other sources in an [[Atlas Sources Folder|Atlas Sources]] folder that keeps it separate from my own `Notes` with my ideas, thoughts, and knowledge (under `Atlas`). This includes information captured from other people, articles, books, videos, courses, AI prompts, websites, etc. Readwise highlights from articles and books are imported automatically into a `Readwise` folder under `Sources`. ## Maps The [[Atlas Maps Folder|Atlas Maps]] folder provide organization, structure, context, navigation, and links for related notes about a topic or app. Although each note has direct links to related notes at a local micro-level, the maps provide meaningful clusters of notes with additional context at a higher level. And these maps are also connected to related maps forming an infrastructure at a macro-level within the linked note system. They provide guided pathways through a web of notes, and always return back to the home note with intermediate hub maps where appropriate. ## Views The [[Atlas Views Folder|Atlas Views]] folder contains special notes with Dataview queries that provide dynamic lists and tables from metadata across the notes in my vault. These are key elements in workflow processing as notes evolve and mature over time through various stages from spark to output. ## Works My outputs, packages, downloads, components, information packets, and resources are contained in the [[Atlas Works Folder|Atlas Works]] folder to provide a repository of reusable assets harvested from my creative efforts. ## Prefixed folders Like Nick mentioned when describing his personal vault in his Folders video, I'm also considering possibly surfacing some of these major subfolders at the root level so they might be something like Atlas Apps, Atlas Notes, Atlas Maps, Atlas Views, and Atlas Works. This would still group all these Atlas folders together with the common Atlas prefix, and might simplify views so they don't have to worry about nested folders in queries. Right now, I'm just thinking about this, and will see how the nested structure works first. ## Visuals I have a Visuals folder for Obsidian canvas files, Excalidraw drawings, Mermaid diagrams, MindNode mind maps, Kanban boards, Freeform images, and screenshots. However, I keep `Visuals` (canvas & drawings) under the `x` (Extra) folder, which is not included when publishing my notes. --- ## Ideas - [[App Folders]] - [[Ad Hoc Folders]] - [[Focus vs Maps]] - [[PKM Folders|Folders]] - [[PKM - Maps|Maps]] - [[PKM Notes|Notes]] - [[Links]] - [[Metadata]] - [[PKM - Properties|Properties]] - [[Fields]] - [[PKM - Tags|Tags]] - [[PKM Views|Views]]