Writing

Notes on how to organize thought and turn it into readable text. Two sub-areas: personal knowledge systems (how you collect and link your own thinking — mindex itself is one of these), and frameworks for explanation (how to structure documentation and writing for others). This note is the canonical page for the writing tag — it sits at the meta layer and describes how the rest of the system is shaped.

Personal knowledge systems

• PKM — the umbrella term.
• Zettelkasten — Luhmann's slip-box, the foundational method.
• Evergreen notes — atomic, concept-titled, densely linked.
• Digital garden — the public-facing form. mindex is one.
• Canonical tag pages — curated entry points into topic clusters.

Frameworks for docs and explanation

• Diátaxis — tutorials / how-to / reference / explanation.
• Information Mapping — Horn's chunked, templated approach.
• Pyramid Principle — Minto's answer-first structuring.