Using internal links (flexible, encourages serendipitous discovery, works well with bidirectional linking of ideas) & metadata (supports queries and filtering) > folders (rigid hierarchies)
- a note can only exist in one folder, but it might belong to multiple contexts
- deeply nesting folders are cumbersome and makes notes harder to find, and the depth of each note doesn’t inherent bring any information about its relation to other data
- when creating a note, its relationship to other ideas comes more intuitively than deciding where it should go (also more time-consuming)
- inline fields such as
Topic::could still act as folders - the folder pages are not well-supported in format or navigation
What if I want visitors to be able to navigate it?
- use public-facing map of content pages: readability and discoverability for others, no searching, stays flexible
- use Dataview to auto-list content: better than python scripting all the links anyway