The Daily Note Page (DNP) is the default repository for capturing daily information. The DNP's organization is mainly about providing context clues for ideas. It has 2 main sections, broken into 3 subsections each. The Overview section captures reflections and meta analysis from active Projects, spontaneous thoughts on various Topics of interest, a daily Reflection on my inner state, and the astrology for the day, either natal or collective. The Notes section tracks new and modified notes with dataview queries, and a field for quick notes that generally collects content sent from the share sheet on my devices. The template is here. All content from the DNP gets processed at the end of the week into a **Weekly Note Page**. Importantly, the DNP is considered a collection of fleeting notes, similar to the [[+ Idea Net]]. During weekly processing, content in each daily note is evaluated for relevance then refactored into a **Development Note**, or to a specific note. In this wise, most daily notes only live for the week they were created, a month at most. Content still in a daily note that has not found a home by the time of a monthly review is usually deleted. >[!quote] Maggie Appleton[^1] >>Don't shit where you need to critically think. [^1]: Appleton, M. (2022), *Daily Notes Pages*, https://maggieappleton.com/daily-notes In my daily work, rigor, format and formality occurs in a designated block for creative work, or a designated block for organization and [[Revision]]. The DNP captures anything that occurs throughout the day and removes the chafe of having to open a new or existing note. It’s appropriate to the moment, and can be evaluated for relevance later. My thoughts might touch a hundred notes over the course of the day, the DNP limits them to one. Regardless of how much structure I introduce to keep myself on task, spontaneous and errant thoughts will intrude each time block. Often a task combined with the idiosyncrasies of the day will trigger a thought with holistic significance to my interests but is not directly applicable to what I'm working on. Daily notes help keep ancillary and indirect information separate from active project notes, and track topics of interest that typically arise according to the season. Daily to weekly to **monthly note** processing is a way of reducing clutter and ensuring that I touch these ideas multiple times within relevant spans of their occurrence. The result is either a few orphaned notes with some perceived relevance, or the information is dispensed with. This keeps me continuously engaged with my ideas and emerging knowledge. Equally as important, it helps me let go of ideas that have not survived the iterative process. This frees cognitive energy for distilling the ideas that do.