# Action
Something to do for an effort, project, area, or interest.
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## Scope
- Narrower than an Effort, and alongside Area, Interest, or Project.
- May represent a single Action as a Task with many steps and more content than would simply be included in a bullet list.
- More complex actions might be ActionGroups that have one or more nested groups of actions.
- Sequential actions can be represented as a simple bullet list with a checkbox.
- Parallel actions can use a numbered list to identify the sequence (1., 2., etc.).
## Broader
- [[Efforts Folder (Term)|Efforts Folder]] — generic (ISO 25964)
## Collections
- [[Note Types (Collection)|Note Types]]
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#vocab/term · created 2026-08-28 · modified 2026-08-29