hermes
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Note-taking

Structuring notes, personal knowledge bases and turning notes into actions.

  • Build a team wiki structure

    Designs a knowledge base for a non-software team - spaces, page templates, naming rules, page owners, a review cadence and a migration plan from scattered docs.

  • Design a personal knowledge system

    Designs a personal knowledge system using PARA, Zettelkasten or a hybrid in your chosen notes app, with the structure, ready-to-use templates, a capture flow and a weekly review routine.

  • Make reading notes

    Turns highlights from an article or book into atomic, linkable notes written as claims in plain words, with source references, link suggestions and prompts for the reader's own takeaways.

  • Organise digital files

    Designs a folder structure and file naming convention that fits how you work, plus a safe step-by-step cleanup plan and a short routine to keep files tidy. Use when finding files takes too long.

  • Process a brain dump

    Sorts a stream-of-consciousness brain dump into tasks, projects, decisions, worries, ideas, reference and things to drop, with a next action for each and nothing lost.

  • Set up a bullet journal

    Designs a bullet journal or paper planner setup for the person's needs - a key, collections, future, monthly and daily logs and a migration routine that fits their time.

  • Structure messy notes

    Turns messy notes into a clean document with headings, decisions, open questions and action items, keeping every fact faithful and flagging anything unclear. Use after a call, lecture or brainstorm.

  • Triage a reading list

    Triages a backlog of saved articles, books, videos and podcasts against current goals into read now, skim, schedule, keep as reference and drop, with a reason for each.