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> what’s the smallest digital thing you’d accept as the authoritative source of truth

The atom of unassailable truth in my system is the calendar event, especially if it's in the calendar managed by my PA, or one of the automatic calendars fed by cal.com. I trust it without question, since it takes a fairly concrete, verifiable event to get something on the calendar e.g. adding my next therapy appointment at the end of my current one.

> And what’s the trigger that turns a note into an action for you?

My notes are all actions insomuch as they must all be digested into my digital note system, todos, or calendar events. If you mean my fledgling Zetelkasten, I don't make actions out of those. I suppose I also have my random list of project ideas and blog ideas that I grab things off when I finally have free time and some energy but not an idea already in my head of what to do.

Question for you: why do both you and several self help gurus I read use the format of "what's the smallest xyz that abc?" Is that some framework someone came up with? Not an attack, I just don't know how to ask that without sounding rude, sorry.

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On “notes are all actions”: I think we’re using the word “action” differently. I don’t mean “notes should become todos”. I mean “notes should resolve into an explicit state”: either it becomes a commitment (calendar/todo), or it becomes reference with a clear home, or it gets discarded on purpose. Your system already does that digestion, which is why it works.

On your last question: the “smallest xyz that abc” phrasing isn’t a special framework or guru thing. It’s just a way to force a constraint so the answer becomes practical instead of aspirational. Did I use it here?