● Maps of Content

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A map of content is a note that's mostly links, a curated index into a cluster of atomic notesOne idea per note, self-contained enough to survive being read outside the context it was written in. Luhmann's slip-box already worked this way, but the zettelkasten method frames atomicity as a discipline more than a rule, a compass rather than… on one topic, sitting alongside folders and tags rather than replacing them.

Automatic groupings can't make judgment calls the way a hand-written map can. A folder or a tag can only say a note belongs somewhere; a map of content can say why, and can put the same note in more than one place at once.