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- **[[Ideaverse Map|LYT]]** - Stands for "Linking Your Thinking".
- **PKM** (Personal Knowledge Management) - The process of individuals making, using, organizing, connecting, combining, collaborating, and creating with their personal notes.
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- **[[ACE Headspace|ACE]]** - A framework based on three foundational head spaces: Atlas, Calendar, Efforts. Within the Ideaverse for Obsidian, this is applied through a unified structure for folders and links.
- **ARC** - A framework based on the natural flow of ideas (Add, Relate, Communicate) to reclaim and master the core of your creative process.
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- [**Mental Squeeze Point**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/Mental+Squeeze+Point) - The point in any endeavor where the amount of information begins to overwhelm you. Either you overcome the squeeze point, or your project gets stuck.
- [**MOC (Map of Content)**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/MOCs+Overview), pronounced (EM-OH-SEE) - A note that mainly has links to other notes, thus "mapping" the contents of multiple notes in your digital library.
    - MOCs help you gather, develop, and navigate your ideas.
- [**Home note**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Home) - Your Home note is your north star, navigating you to your MOCs. It keeps the entire system organized.
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- **Ideaverse** - Your notes connected. More broadly, the total of one's mental landscape. An ideaverse is the universe of ideas that exists between your brain and every place you think.
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- [**Idea Emergence**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/Idea+Emergence+(defn)) - The process of how the ideas you encounter go from the "nothingness" to the "somethingness"—and how those ideas grow in richness, complexity, and personally meaningful value over time.
- **Architects & Gardeners** - A framework to understanding your current thinking style. Used to troubleshoot sticking points and even to get in alignment with team members.
- **Top-down Thinking** - Starting with structure and a clear destination. e.g. A folder-based framework.
    - PRO: Keeps you on track.
    - CON: Stifles emergent thinking.
- **Bottom-up Thinking** - Starting with a various ideas and connecting them organically.
    - PRO: Allows for emergent thinking.
    - CON: Can feel a little too chaotic at times.
- **Middle-out Thinking** - Developing a fluid structure that creates simultaneous cycles of top-down and bottom-up thinking. e.g. LYT!
    - PRO: Encourages next level thinking.
    - BUT: Requires learning the technique and being able to balance structure/chaos.
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- [**Note-makers**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/Note-makers) - Note-makers are people who spend their thinking time in an active, engaged way—making sense of the stuff they encounter.
- [**Note-takers**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/Note-takers) - Note-takers passively collect information rather than actively develop their ideas.
- [**Fluid Frameworks**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/Fluid+Frameworks) - Any helpful framework, or structure, that helps but doesn't hinder note retrieval and/or idea management. They are adaptable, fitting your evolving needs.
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- [**BOAT Note**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/BOAT+notes) - BOAT stands for “Block of Atomic Thought” - a less defined note with fewer links, often recently created or not yet fully formed. As it develops, it may grow into a more robust evergreen note.
- [**Evergreen notes**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/Evergreen+notes) - Evergreen notes are focused on a single idea and written mostly in your own words. They naturally accrue more links over time.
- **VLN** - Very Long Note - A note that either by design or by development has become very long. It could possibly be refactored into several smaller notes but sometimes is great as is.
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- [**Refraction Thinking**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/Refraction+Thinking) - Thinking about ONE thing, through the lens of ANOTHER thing.
- [**Data views**](https://notes.linkingyourthinking.com/Cards/Data+view+notes+(defn)) - Data views are special queries you can add to notes, most commonly by using the Dataview community plugin.

