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meaning: "Historical events to learn about" | meaning: "Historical events to learn about" | ||
example: "⛬ Battle of Culloden 1767" | example: "⛬ Battle of Culloden 1767" | ||
| + | </source> | ||
| + | === Grok 4 === | ||
| + | <source lang='yaml'> | ||
| + | ontology: | ||
| + | source: "Personal Ontologies: The Future of Information Management by Martijn Aslander" | ||
| + | description: "A mapping of emojis to specific knowledge management concepts." | ||
| + | url: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/personal-ontologies-future-information-management-martijn-aslander-nkjle/ | ||
| + | notes: | | ||
| + | - "Emoji help visual recognition faster than text" | ||
| + | - "ISO 8601 date format enables chronological sorting" | ||
| + | - "Templates automate metadata entry" | ||
| + | - "Dataview queries create dynamic overviews" | ||
| + | - "~15 minutes daily maintenance for 20-40 items" | ||
| + | - "System evolved over 20 years of experimentation" | ||
| + | - naming_patterns: | ||
| + | -- dated_activity: "emoji date time location – description (e.g., 🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Birthday)" | ||
| + | -- person: "emoji Name (e.g., 👥 Jan Janssen)" | ||
| + | -- organization: "emoji Name (e.g., 🛗 AFAS)" | ||
| + | -- location: "emoji Name (e.g., 🏰 Castle Name)" | ||
| + | -- book: "emoji Title (e.g., 📗 The Invention of Nature)" | ||
| + | -- possession: "emoji Brand – Model (e.g., 📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30)" | ||
| + | |||
| + | metadata_fields: | ||
| + | - status: "Status: open/closed" | ||
| + | - action: "Action: call/check/buy/ping/write/read" | ||
| + | - rating: "Rating: importance/urgency level" | ||
| + | - date: "Date: ISO 8601 format" | ||
| + | - location: "Location: where it occurred" | ||
| + | - people: "People: who was involved" | ||
| + | - project: "Project: related project" | ||
| + | - organization: "Organization: related organization" | ||
| + | - cost: "Cost: financial information" | ||
| + | - time_of_day: "Time: morning (mi), afternoon, evening" | ||
| + | |||
| + | categories: | ||
| + | people: | ||
| + | - symbol: "👥" | ||
| + | meaning: "People I have met" | ||
| + | example: "👥 Jan Janssen" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🗣️" | ||
| + | meaning: "People I have not met yet" | ||
| + | example: "🗣️ Adam Grant" | ||
| + | - symbol: "⚱️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Prefix for people who have passed away" | ||
| + | example: "⚱️👥 Jan Janssen" | ||
| + | |||
| + | organizations: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛗" | ||
| + | meaning: "Organizations (General)" | ||
| + | example: "🛗 AFAS" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛗 🛩️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Organizations with special interest (e.g., airlines)" | ||
| + | example: "🛗 🛩️ KLM" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛗 🎒" | ||
| + | meaning: "Organizations with special interest (e.g., brands followed closely)" | ||
| + | example: "🛗 🎒 Tom Bihn" | ||
| + | |||
| + | locations: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🇨🇭" | ||
| + | meaning: "Countries (using flag emojis)" | ||
| + | example: "🇨🇭 Switzerland" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛤️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Destinations (regions, cities, villages, natural areas)" | ||
| + | example: "🛤️ The Hague" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🏣" | ||
| + | meaning: "Buildings" | ||
| + | example: "🏣 Office Building" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🏡" | ||
| + | meaning: "Houses (lived in or visited)" | ||
| + | example: "🏡 Home in Haarlem" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🚉" | ||
| + | meaning: "Stations (train/metro)" | ||
| + | example: "🚉 Utrecht Central" | ||
| + | - symbol: "✈️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Airports" | ||
| + | example: "✈️ Schiphol" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🏰" | ||
| + | meaning: "Castles and historical buildings" | ||
| + | example: "🏰 Muiderslot" | ||
| + | |||
| + | activities_and_events: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎪" | ||
| + | meaning: "General events and activities" | ||
| + | example: "🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Jan Janssen’s Birthday" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎪🎹" | ||
| + | meaning: "Concerts" | ||
| + | example: "🎪🎹 2022-07-07 – Rolling Stones Concert Amsterdam Arena" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🍿" | ||
| + | meaning: "Cinema outings / Movies" | ||
| + | example: "🍿 Cinema 2023-08-12 mi Oppenheimer" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎤" | ||
| + | meaning: "Public performances / Speaking engagements" | ||
| + | example: "🎤 2025-01-09 mi Erasmus University – Students International Business" | ||
| + | - symbol: "👏" | ||
| + | meaning: "Feedback received on talks" | ||
| + | example: "👏 2025-01-11 Jan Janssen – in response to talk at Raad van State" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🗺️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Outings (with partner, family, or work)" | ||
| + | example: "🗺️ 2022-12-18 Outing Muiderslot" | ||
| + | - symbol: "👣" | ||
| + | meaning: "Walks / Hikes" | ||
| + | example: "👣 2024-10-27 mi Rozendaalse Veld and Beekhuizense Bos – with Mark" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛣️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Road trips" | ||
| + | example: "🛣️ 2024-10-03 Road trip to Elp" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛎️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Hotel stays" | ||
| + | example: "🛎️ 2023-11-14 Mövenpick Karachi" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🚕" | ||
| + | meaning: "Taxi rides" | ||
| + | example: "🚕 2022-11-25 Utrecht – Haarlem" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛫" | ||
| + | meaning: "Flights" | ||
| + | example: "🛫 2024-02-20 Flight xxx 06:40 to Lisbon from Schiphol" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🍽️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Dining out" | ||
| + | example: "🍽️ 2023-05-03 Golden Bull – Maarten van den Berg" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🥡" | ||
| + | meaning: "Takeout" | ||
| + | example: "🥡 2024-12-06 Erawan" | ||
| + | - symbol: "💍" | ||
| + | meaning: "Weddings" | ||
| + | example: "💍 2025-05-01 Haarlem – Jan Jansen and Petra Bakker" | ||
| + | - symbol: "⚰️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Funerals" | ||
| + | example: "⚰️ 2022-07-08 Funeral of Jan de Vries" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🙌" | ||
| + | meaning: "Significant life events / Unique experiences" | ||
| + | example: "🙌 2022-08-14 Skydiving with the commandos" | ||
| + | |||
| + | tasks: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🔩" | ||
| + | meaning: "Small tasks / Maintenance" | ||
| + | example: "🔩 2025-01-03 Task – Tidy cables under the bed" | ||
| + | - symbol: "👨🌾" | ||
| + | meaning: "Gardening or harvesting tasks" | ||
| + | example: "👨🌾 2024-10-06 Harvest sweet potatoes" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🔩👨🌾" | ||
| + | meaning: "Combined small/gardening tasks" | ||
| + | example: "🔩👨🌾 2024-12-29 Task – Remove compost bin" | ||
| + | |||
| + | sentiment_and_reflection: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🌈" | ||
| + | meaning: "Nice things / Joyful moments" | ||
| + | example: "🌈 2025-01-11 I ran into Jan Janssen spontaneously after years" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🌪️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Unpleasant things / Bad moments" | ||
| + | example: "🌪️ 2025-01-02 I had a terrible night because of a crying cat" | ||
| + | - symbol: "👍" | ||
| + | meaning: "Compliments received" | ||
| + | example: "👍 2025-01-11 – From my partner about my writing productivity this week" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🙏" | ||
| + | meaning: "Thank-yous received" | ||
| + | example: "🙏 2025-01-11 – From Genieke Hertoghs for promoting her book" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🤔" | ||
| + | meaning: "Reflections" | ||
| + | example: "🤔 2025-01-11 Is the ontology post getting too long?" | ||
| + | - symbol: "✨" | ||
| + | meaning: "Insights" | ||
| + | example: "✨ 2025-01-11 Writing about my ontology is helping me clarify the bigger picture" | ||
| + | - symbol: "💭" | ||
| + | meaning: "Dreams" | ||
| + | example: "💭 2025-01-14 I dreamed I visited an underwater cave" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🔬" | ||
| + | meaning: "Things I want to understand / Curiosity" | ||
| + | example: "🔬 2022-07-12 How are matches made?" | ||
| + | |||
| + | communication_and_interaction: | ||
| + | - symbol: "💬" | ||
| + | meaning: "Reach-In (Inbound questions)" | ||
| + | example: "💬 2025-01-03 – Jan Janssen about dining tips in Haarlem" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🙋♂️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Requests for help" | ||
| + | example: "🙋♂️ 2024-10-25 – Jan Janssen about tips for getting his book into the library" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🤝" | ||
| + | meaning: "Reach-Out (Outbound connections)" | ||
| + | example: "🤝 2024-11-13 – Eppo van Nispen about the upcoming PKM Summit" | ||
| + | - symbol: "☎️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Phone calls" | ||
| + | example: "☎️ 2025-01-09 Menno Spaan – About the Digital Fitness Academy course" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🫶" | ||
| + | meaning: "Connection messages (connecting two other people)" | ||
| + | example: "🫶 2025-01-06 Alja and Marcel should meet up" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🔗" | ||
| + | meaning: "LinkedIn traction posts (also used for URLs and hosting)" | ||
| + | example: "🔗 2024-11-21 LinkedIn traction post about information literacy" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📅" | ||
| + | meaning: "Meetings" | ||
| + | example: "📅 2025-01-09 morning Maeva – Thijs about hosting and domains" | ||
| + | |||
| + | projects_and_opportunities: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🔑" | ||
| + | meaning: "Opportunities" | ||
| + | example: "🔑 2025-01-16 – Now that Jan Janssen has this job, he can help with the Month of Digital Fitness" | ||
| + | - symbol: "⚗️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Projects" | ||
| + | example: "⚗️ PKM Summit 2025" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📇" | ||
| + | meaning: "Maps of Content (MOCs) / Indexes" | ||
| + | example: "📇 MOC – PKM Summit" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📥" | ||
| + | meaning: "Inbox (quick thoughts and tasks)" | ||
| + | example: "📥 Quick note on idea" | ||
| + | - symbol: "⬆️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Unprocessed / Non-predefined items" | ||
| + | example: "⬆️ 2024-11-25 Create a Dedicated Page for PKM Meetups – Maarten" | ||
| + | |||
| + | media_and_content: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎓" | ||
| + | meaning: "Research pages / Topics to learn" | ||
| + | example: "🎓 Coffee or 🎓 Sleep" | ||
| + | - symbol: "✂️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Web articles / Clippings" | ||
| + | example: "✂️ Scientists Discovered How to Control the Casimir Effect—and Supercharge Tiny Machines" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📺" | ||
| + | meaning: "Films and Series" | ||
| + | example: "📺 Drops of God" | ||
| + | - symbol: "💿" | ||
| + | meaning: "Music albums" | ||
| + | example: "💿 Nothing Like the Sun" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎵" | ||
| + | meaning: "Lyrics and individual songs" | ||
| + | example: "🎵 Lyrics Nature Boy – Nat King Cole" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎹" | ||
| + | meaning: "Artists / Musicians" | ||
| + | example: "🎹 The Rolling Stones" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🗞" | ||
| + | meaning: "Newspapers" | ||
| + | example: "🗞 The Guardian" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📗" | ||
| + | meaning: "Books (general)" | ||
| + | example: "📗 The Invention of Nature" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📙" | ||
| + | meaning: "Children’s books" | ||
| + | example: "📙 Oh, How Beautiful is Panama" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📒" | ||
| + | meaning: "Comic books" | ||
| + | example: "📒 Redbeard – The Broken Compass" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📗📖" | ||
| + | meaning: "Books written by the user" | ||
| + | example: "📗📖 Easycratie" | ||
| + | - symbol: "✍️✍️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Manuscripts being reviewed or worked on" | ||
| + | example: "✍️✍️ How to Build an Information Organization" | ||
| + | - symbol: "✍️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Articles working on (Drafts)" | ||
| + | example: "✍️ My Personal Ontology" | ||
| + | - symbol: "✒️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Published articles" | ||
| + | example: "✒️ How to Capture an Opportunity as It Passes By" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎙" | ||
| + | meaning: "Podcasts recorded" | ||
| + | example: "🎙 2022-10-27 De Gelukkige Thuiswerker" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🖋" | ||
| + | meaning: "Interviews conducted" | ||
| + | example: "🖋 2024-02-02 morning Interview with IP Magazine" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📚" | ||
| + | meaning: "Concepts and Terms" | ||
| + | example: "📚 Eekschiller" | ||
| + | - symbol: "⛬" | ||
| + | meaning: "Historical events" | ||
| + | example: "⛬ Battle of Culloden 1767" | ||
| + | |||
| + | possessions_and_purchases: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛒" | ||
| + | meaning: "Purchases (General, over €20)" | ||
| + | example: "🛒 2025-01-15 Handy kitchen gadget by brand Y" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛒📗" | ||
| + | meaning: "Book purchases" | ||
| + | example: "🛒📗 The Invention of Nature" | ||
| + | - symbol: "📦" | ||
| + | meaning: "Possessions (General)" | ||
| + | example: "📦 General item" | ||
| + | - symbol: "👕" | ||
| + | meaning: "Clothing" | ||
| + | example: "👕 Shirt" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎒" | ||
| + | meaning: "Bags" | ||
| + | example: "📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30" | ||
| + | - symbol: "⛺️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Camping gear" | ||
| + | example: "⛺️ Tent" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🗜" | ||
| + | meaning: "Tools (Clamps)" | ||
| + | example: "🗜 Clamp tool" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛠" | ||
| + | meaning: "Tools (General)" | ||
| + | example: "🛠 Hammer" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🪚" | ||
| + | meaning: "Tools (Saws)" | ||
| + | example: "🪚 Saw" | ||
| + | - symbol: "⌨️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Keyboards / Tech hardware" | ||
| + | example: "⌨️ Mechanical Keyboard" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🪑" | ||
| + | meaning: "Furniture" | ||
| + | example: "🪑 Chair" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🖼️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Art / Decor" | ||
| + | example: "🖼️ Painting" | ||
| + | |||
| + | tech_and_admin: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🛠️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Software" | ||
| + | example: "🛠️ Obsidian" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🔌" | ||
| + | meaning: "Software plugins" | ||
| + | example: "🔌 Obsidian – Dataview plugin" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎟️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Subscriptions and Accounts" | ||
| + | example: "🎟️ New York Times" | ||
| + | |||
| + | food_nature_games: | ||
| + | - symbol: "🥗" | ||
| + | meaning: "Dishes and recipes" | ||
| + | example: "🥗 Salad Recipe" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🍷" | ||
| + | meaning: "Wine" | ||
| + | example: "🍷 Chablis 2020 – Dominique Laurent" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🍻" | ||
| + | meaning: "Beer" | ||
| + | example: "🍻 Moersleutel – Hoppy Stout" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🕹️" | ||
| + | meaning: "Computer games" | ||
| + | example: "🕹️ Game Title" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🎲" | ||
| + | meaning: "Board games" | ||
| + | example: "🎲 Monopoly" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🌳" | ||
| + | meaning: "Trees (in garden)" | ||
| + | example: "🌳 Magnolia" | ||
| + | - symbol: "🌱" | ||
| + | meaning: "Plants (in garden)" | ||
| + | example: "🌱 Wisteria" | ||
</source> | </source> | ||
[[Category:Semantification]] | [[Category:Semantification]] | ||
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source: "Personal Ontologies: The Future of Information Management by Martijn Aslander"
description: "A mapping of emojis to specific knowledge management concepts."
ontology:
people:
- symbol: "👥"
meaning: "People I have met"
- symbol: "🗣️"
meaning: "People I have not met yet"
- symbol: "⚱️"
meaning: "Prefix for people who have passed away"
organizations:
- symbol: "🛗"
meaning: "Organizations (General)"
- symbol: "🛗 🛩️"
meaning: "Airlines or specific organizations of interest"
- symbol: "🛗 🎒"
meaning: "Brands followed closely"
locations:
- symbol: "🇨🇭"
meaning: "Countries"
- symbol: "🛤️"
meaning: "Destinations (regions, cities, villages, natural areas)"
- symbol: "🏣"
meaning: "Buildings"
- symbol: "🏡"
meaning: "Houses (lived in or visited)"
- symbol: "🚉"
meaning: "Stations"
- symbol: "✈️"
meaning: "Airports"
- symbol: "🏰"
meaning: "Castles"
activities_and_events:
- symbol: "🎪"
meaning: "General activities and events"
- symbol: "🎪🎹"
meaning: "Concerts"
- symbol: "🍿"
meaning: "Cinema outings / Movies"
- symbol: "🗺️"
meaning: "Outings (with partner, family, or work)"
- symbol: "👣"
meaning: "Walks"
- symbol: "🛣️"
meaning: "Road trips"
- symbol: "🛎️"
meaning: "Hotel stays"
- symbol: "🚕"
meaning: "Taxi rides"
- symbol: "🛫"
meaning: "Flights"
- symbol: "🍽️"
meaning: "Dining out"
- symbol: "🥡"
meaning: "Takeout"
- symbol: "💍"
meaning: "Weddings"
- symbol: "⚰️"
meaning: "Funerals"
- symbol: "🙌"
meaning: "Significant life events / Unique experiences"
- symbol: "🎤"
meaning: "Public performances / Speaking engagements"
- symbol: "👏"
meaning: "Feedback received on talks"
tasks:
- symbol: "🔩"
meaning: "Small tasks"
- symbol: "👨🌾"
meaning: "Gardening or harvesting tasks"
sentiment_and_reflection:
- symbol: "🌈"
meaning: "Nice things / Joyful moments"
- symbol: "🌪️"
meaning: "Unpleasant things / Bad moments"
- symbol: "👍"
meaning: "Compliments received"
- symbol: "🙏"
meaning: "Thank-yous received"
- symbol: "🤔"
meaning: "Reflections"
- symbol: "✨"
meaning: "Insights"
- symbol: "💭"
meaning: "Dreams"
- symbol: "🔬"
meaning: "Things I want to understand / Curiosity"
communication_and_interaction:
- symbol: "💬"
meaning: "Reach-In (Inbound questions)"
- symbol: "🙋♂️"
meaning: "Requests for help"
- symbol: "🤝"
meaning: "Reach-Out (Outbound connections)"
- symbol: "☎️"
meaning: "Phone calls"
- symbol: "🫶"
meaning: "Connection messages (connecting two other people)"
- symbol: "🔗"
meaning: "LinkedIn traction posts (also used for URLs)"
- symbol: "📅"
meaning: "Meetings"
projects_and_opportunities:
- symbol: "🔑"
meaning: "Opportunities"
- symbol: "⚗️"
meaning: "Projects"
- symbol: "📇"
meaning: "Maps of Content (MOCs) / Indexes"
media_and_content:
- symbol: "🎓"
meaning: "Research pages / Topics to learn"
- symbol: "✂️"
meaning: "Web articles / Clippings"
- symbol: "📺"
meaning: "Films and Series"
- symbol: "💿"
meaning: "Music albums"
- symbol: "🎵"
meaning: "Lyrics and individual songs"
- symbol: "🎹"
meaning: "Artists / Musicians"
- symbol: "🗞"
meaning: "Newspapers"
- symbol: "📗"
meaning: "Books"
- symbol: "📙"
meaning: "Children’s books"
- symbol: "📒"
meaning: "Comic books"
- symbol: "📗📖"
meaning: "Books written by the user"
- symbol: "✍️✍️"
meaning: "Manuscripts being reviewed or worked on"
- symbol: "✍️"
meaning: "Articles working on (Drafts)"
- symbol: "✒️"
meaning: "Published articles"
- symbol: "🎙"
meaning: "Podcasts recorded"
- symbol: "🖋"
meaning: "Interviews conducted"
- symbol: "📚"
meaning: "Concepts and Terms"
- symbol: "⛬"
meaning: "Historical events"
possessions_and_purchases:
- symbol: "🛒"
meaning: "Purchases (General)"
- symbol: "🛒📗"
meaning: "Book purchases"
- symbol: "📦"
meaning: "Possessions (General)"
- symbol: "👕"
meaning: "Clothing"
- symbol: "🎒"
meaning: "Bags"
- symbol: "⛺️"
meaning: "Camping gear"
- symbol: "🗜"
meaning: "Tools (Clamps)"
- symbol: "🛠"
meaning: "Tools (General)"
- symbol: "🪚"
meaning: "Tools (Saws)"
- symbol: "⌨️"
meaning: "Keyboards / Tech hardware"
- symbol: "🪑"
meaning: "Furniture"
- symbol: "🖼️"
meaning: "Art / Decor"
tech_and_admin:
- symbol: "🛠️"
meaning: "Software"
- symbol: "🔌"
meaning: "Software plugins"
- symbol: "🎟️"
meaning: "Subscriptions and Accounts"
- symbol: "🔗"
meaning: "URLs and Hosting (also used for LinkedIn traction)"
food_nature_games:
- symbol: "🥗"
meaning: "Dishes and recipes"
- symbol: "🍷"
meaning: "Wine"
- symbol: "🍻"
meaning: "Beer"
- symbol: "🕹️"
meaning: "Computer games"
- symbol: "🎲"
meaning: "Board games"
- symbol: "🌳"
meaning: "Trees"
- symbol: "🌱"
meaning: "Plants"
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Here's a YAML file documenting Martijn Aslander's personal knowledge management symbols:
notes:
- "Emoji help visual recognition faster than text" - "ISO 8601 date format enables chronological sorting" - "Templates automate metadata entry" - "Dataview queries create dynamic overviews" - "~15 minutes daily maintenance for 20-40 items" - "System evolved over 20 years of experimentation"
ontology:
name: "Martijn Aslander's Personal Ontology"
tool: "Obsidian"
date_format: "ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)"
symbols:
# PEOPLE
people:
met: "👥"
description_met: "People I've met"
not_met: "🗣️"
description_not_met: "People I haven't met yet"
deceased: "⚱️"
description_deceased: "People who have passed away (e.g., ⚱️👥 Jan Janssen)"
# ORGANIZATIONS
organizations:
general: "🛗"
description_general: "Organizations (elevator symbol - many people)"
aviation: "🛗🛩️"
description_aviation: "Airlines (e.g., 🛗🛩️ KLM)"
brands: "🛗🎒"
description_brands: "Brands followed closely (e.g., 🛗🎒 Tom Bihn)"
# LOCATIONS
locations:
countries: "🇨🇭"
description_countries: "Countries (using flag emojis)"
destinations: "🛤️"
description_destinations: "Destinations - regions, cities, villages, natural areas"
buildings: "🏣"
description_buildings: "Buildings - places you can enter"
houses: "🏡"
description_houses: "Houses - homes lived in or visited"
stations: "🚉"
description_stations: "Train/metro stations"
airports: "✈️"
description_airports: "Airports"
castles: "🏰"
description_castles: "Castles and historical buildings"
# ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
activities:
events: "🎪"
description_events: "Events (e.g., 🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Jan Janssen's Birthday)"
concerts: "🎪🎹"
description_concerts: "Concerts (e.g., 🎪🎹 2022-07-07 – Rolling Stones Concert)"
cinema: "🍿"
description_cinema: "Cinema outings (e.g., 🍿 Cinema 2023-08-12 mi Oppenheimer)"
speaking: "🎤"
description_speaking: "Public performances and speaking engagements"
outings: "🗺️"
description_outings: "Outings with partner, family, or for work"
walks: "👣"
description_walks: "Walking routes and hikes"
road_trips: "🛣️"
description_road_trips: "Road trips and adventures"
hotels: "🛎️"
description_hotels: "Hotel stays"
taxis: "🚕"
description_taxis: "Taxi rides"
flights: "🛫"
description_flights: "Flights (with full airport and flight details)"
dining: "🍽️"
description_dining: "Dining out experiences"
takeout: "🥡"
description_takeout: "Takeout meals"
weddings: "💍"
description_weddings: "Wedding ceremonies"
funerals: "⚰️"
description_funerals: "Funeral services"
life_events: "🙌"
description_life_events: "Significant life events and unique experiences"
# PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
personal:
nice_things: "🌈"
description_nice_things: "Nice things that happened"
unpleasant: "🌪️"
description_unpleasant: "Unpleasant things (for reflection)"
compliments: "👍"
description_compliments: "Compliments received"
gratitude: "🙏"
description_gratitude: "Thank-yous from others"
reflections: "🤔"
description_reflections: "Personal reflections and thoughts"
insights: "✨"
description_insights: "Insights and realizations"
dreams: "💭"
description_dreams: "Dreams to document and analyze"
# WORK & COMMUNICATION
work:
reach_in: "💬"
description_reach_in: "Reach-in - incoming questions or messages"
help_requests: "🙋♂️"
description_help_requests: "Requests for help"
reach_out: "🤝"
description_reach_out: "Reach-out - outgoing messages to others"
phone_calls: "☎️"
description_phone_calls: "Phone calls and discussions"
connections: "🫶"
description_connections: "Connection messages - introducing people"
linkedin: "🔗"
description_linkedin: "LinkedIn traction posts"
meetings: "📅"
description_meetings: "Meetings and formal encounters"
opportunities: "🔑"
description_opportunities: "Opportunities identified"
# PROJECTS
projects:
project: "⚗️"
description_project: "Projects"
moc: "📇"
description_moc: "Map of Content (MOC) - overview pages"
# CONTENT & RESEARCH
content:
research: "🎓"
description_research: "Research pages on specific topics"
clippings: "✂️"
description_clippings: "Web articles clipped and saved"
video: "📺"
description_video: "Films and series"
albums: "💿"
description_albums: "Music albums"
songs: "🎵"
description_songs: "Individual songs and lyrics"
artists: "🎹"
description_artists: "Musical artists"
newspapers: "🗞"
description_newspapers: "Newspaper subscriptions"
books: "📗"
description_books: "Books (general)"
childrens_books: "📙"
description_childrens_books: "Children's books"
comics: "📒"
description_comics: "Comic books"
authored_books: "📗📖"
description_authored_books: "Books written by author"
manuscripts: "✍️✍️"
description_manuscripts: "Manuscripts being reviewed or written"
drafts: "✍️"
description_drafts: "Article drafts in progress"
articles: "✒️"
description_articles: "Published articles"
podcasts: "🎙"
description_podcasts: "Podcast recordings"
interviews: "🖋"
description_interviews: "Interviews conducted"
# TASKS
tasks:
small_tasks: "🔩"
description_small_tasks: "Small maintenance tasks"
garden_tasks: "👨🌾"
description_garden_tasks: "Garden and farming tasks"
# LEARNING
learning:
questions: "🔬"
description_questions: "Things I want to understand"
concepts: "📚"
description_concepts: "Concepts and terms to learn"
# POSSESSIONS
possessions:
purchases: "🛒"
description_purchases: "Purchases over €20"
book_purchases: "🛒📗"
description_book_purchases: "Book purchases"
items: "📦"
description_items: "Possessions and belongings"
bags: "📦🎒"
description_bags: "Bags (e.g., 📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30)"
software: "🛠️"
description_software: "Software applications"
plugins: "🔌"
description_plugins: "Software plugins (e.g., 🔌 Obsidian – Dataview plugin)"
clothing: "👕"
description_clothing: "Clothing items"
camping: "⛺️"
description_camping: "Camping equipment"
tools: "🗜"
description_tools: "Tools and equipment"
saws: "🪚"
description_saws: "Cutting tools"
keyboards: "⌨️"
description_keyboards: "Computer keyboards"
furniture: "🪑"
description_furniture: "Furniture pieces"
art: "🖼️"
description_art: "Pictures and frames"
# FOOD & DRINK
food:
recipes: "🥗"
description_recipes: "Dishes and recipes"
wine: "🍷"
description_wine: "Wine selections"
beer: "🍻"
description_beer: "Beer varieties"
# ENTERTAINMENT
entertainment:
computer_games: "🕹️"
description_computer_games: "Computer games"
board_games: "🎲"
description_board_games: "Board games"
# ADMINISTRATIVE
administrative:
subscriptions: "🎟️"
description_subscriptions: "Subscriptions and accounts"
urls: "🔗"
description_urls: "URLs and hosting domains"
# NATURE
nature:
trees: "🌳"
description_trees: "Trees in garden"
plants: "🌱"
description_plants: "Plants in garden"
# HISTORICAL
historical:
events: "⛬"
description_events: "Historical events to learn about"
# ORGANIZATIONAL
organizational:
inbox: "📥"
description_inbox: "Quick thoughts and tasks inbox"
unprocessed: "⬆️"
description_unprocessed: "Unprocessed items needing action"
# TEMPLATE METADATA FIELDS
metadata_fields:
- status: "Status: open/closed"
- action: "Action: call/check/buy/ping/write/read"
- rating: "Rating: importance/urgency level"
- date: "Date: ISO 8601 format"
- location: "Location: where it occurred"
- people: "People: who was involved"
- project: "Project: related project"
- organization: "Organization: related organization"
- cost: "Cost: financial information"
- time_of_day: "Time: morning (mi), afternoon, evening"
# NAMING CONVENTIONS
naming_patterns:
dated_activity: "emoji date time location – description (e.g., 🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Birthday)"
person: "emoji Name (e.g., 👥 Jan Janssen)"
organization: "emoji Name (e.g., 🛗 AFAS)"
location: "emoji Name (e.g., 🏰 Castle Name)"
book: "emoji Title (e.g., 📗 The Invention of Nature)"
possession: "emoji Brand – Model (e.g., 📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30)"
Grok4
ontology:
people:
👥: People I've met (e.g., 👥 Jan Janssen)
🗣️: People I haven't met yet (e.g., 🗣️ Adam Grant)
⚱️: Prefix for people who have passed away (e.g., ⚱️👥 Jan Janssen)
organizations:
🛗: Organizations (e.g., 🛗 AFAS)
🛗 🛩️: Organizations with special interest, like airlines (e.g., 🛗 🛩️ KLM)
🛗 🎒: Organizations with special interest, like brands (e.g., 🛗 🎒 Tom Bihn)
locations:
🇨🇭: Countries (e.g., 🇨🇭 Switzerland)
🛤️: Destinations (regions, cities, villages, natural areas)
🏣: Buildings
🏡: Houses (homes lived in or visited)
🚉: Stations
✈️: Airports
🏰: Castles
activities_events:
🎪: Events (e.g., 🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Jan Janssen’s Birthday)
🎪🎹: Concerts (e.g., 🎪🎹 2022-07-07 – Rolling Stones Concert Amsterdam Arena)
🍿: Cinema outings (e.g., 🍿 Cinema 2023-08-12 mi Oppenheimer)
🎤: Public performances (e.g., 🎤 2025-01-09 mi Erasmus University – Students International Business)
👏: Talk feedback (e.g., 👏 2025-01-11 Jan Janssen – in response to talk at Raad van State)
🗺️: Outings (e.g., 🗺️ 2022-12-18 Outing Muiderslot)
👣: Walks (e.g., 👣 2024-10-27 mi Rozendaalse Veld and Beekhuizense Bos – with Mark)
🛣️: Road trips (e.g., 🛣️ 2024-10-03 Road trip to Elp)
🛎️: Hotel stays (e.g., 🛎️ 2023-11-14 Mövenpick Karachi)
🚕: Taxi rides (e.g., 🚕 2022-11-25 Utrecht – Haarlem)
🛫: Flights (e.g., 🛫 2024-02-20 Flight xxx 06:40 to Lisbon from Schiphol)
🍽️: Dining out (e.g., 🍽️ 2023-05-03 Golden Bull – Maarten van den Berg)
🥡: Takeout (e.g., 🥡 2024-12-06 Erawan)
💍: Weddings (e.g., 💍 2025-05-01 Haarlem – Jan Jansen and Petra Bakker)
⚰️: Funerals (e.g., ⚰️ 2022-07-08 Funeral of Jan de Vries)
🙌: Significant life events (e.g., 🙌 2022-08-14 Skydiving with the commandos)
🔩: Small tasks (e.g., 🔩 2025-01-03 Task – Tidy cables under the bed)
👨🌾: Gardening tasks (e.g., 👨🌾 2024-10-06 Harvest sweet potatoes)
🔩👨🌾: Combined small/gardening tasks (e.g., 🔩👨🌾 2024-12-29 Task – Remove compost bin)
interpretations:
🌈: Nice things (e.g., 🌈 2025-01-11 I ran into Jan Janssen spontaneously after years)
🌪️: Unpleasant things (e.g., 🌪️ 2025-01-02 I had a terrible night because of a crying cat)
👍: Compliments (e.g., 👍 2025-01-11 – From my partner about my writing productivity this week)
🙏: Thank-yous (e.g., 🙏 2025-01-11 – From Genieke Hertoghs for promoting her book)
🤔: Reflections (e.g., 🤔 2025-01-11 Is the ontology post getting too long?)
✨: Insights (e.g., ✨ 2025-01-11 Writing about my ontology is helping me clarify the bigger picture)
💭: Dreams (e.g., 💭 2025-01-14 I dreamed I visited an underwater cave)
work_related:
💬: Reach-in (e.g., 💬 2025-01-03 – Jan Janssen about dining tips in Haarlem)
🙋♂️: Requests for help (e.g., 🙋♂️ 2024-10-25 – Jan Janssen about tips for getting his book into the library)
🤝: Reach-out (e.g., 🤝 2024-11-13 – Eppo van Nispen about the upcoming PKM Summit)
☎️: Phone calls (e.g., ☎️ 2025-01-09 Menno Spaan – About the Digital Fitness Academy course)
🫶: Connection messages (e.g., 🫶 2025-01-06 Alja and Marcel should meet up)
🔗: LinkedIn traction (e.g., 🔗 2024-11-21 LinkedIn traction post about information literacy)
📅: Meetings (e.g., 📅 2025-01-09 morning Maeva – Thijs about hosting and domains)
🔑: Opportunities (e.g., 🔑 2025-01-16 – Now that Jan Janssen has this job, he can help with the Month of Digital Fitness)
⚗️: Projects (e.g., ⚗️ PKM Summit 2025)
📇: Maps of Content (MOC) (e.g., 📇 MOC – PKM Summit)
inspiration_research:
🎓: Research pages (e.g., 🎓 Coffee or 🎓 Sleep)
✂️: Web articles (e.g., ✂️ Scientists Discovered How to Control the Casimir Effect—and Supercharge Tiny Machines)
📺: Films and series (e.g., 📺 Drops of God)
💿: Albums (e.g., 💿 Nothing Like the Sun)
🎵: Lyrics and songs (e.g., 🎵 Lyrics Nature Boy – Nat King Cole)
🎹: Artists (e.g., 🎹 The Rolling Stones)
🗞: Newspapers (e.g., 🗞 The Guardian)
📗: Books (e.g., 📗 The Invention of Nature)
📙: Children’s books (e.g., 📙 Oh, How Beautiful is Panama)
📒: Comic books (e.g., 📒 Redbeard – The Broken Compass)
📗📖: Books I’ve written (e.g., 📗📖 Easycratie)
✍️✍️: Manuscripts reviewing/working on (e.g., ✍️✍️ How to Build an Information Organization)
✍️: Article drafts (e.g., ✍️ My Personal Ontology)
✒️: Finished articles (e.g., ✒️ How to Capture an Opportunity as It Passes By)
🎙: Podcasts (e.g., 🎙 2022-10-27 De Gelukkige Thuiswerker)
🖋: Interviews (e.g., 🖋 2024-02-02 morning Interview with IP Magazine)
other:
🔬: Things I want to understand (e.g., 🔬 2022-07-12 How are matches made?)
🛒: Purchases (e.g., 🛒 2025-01-15 Handy kitchen gadget by brand Y)
📦: Possessions (e.g., 📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30)
🛠️: Software (e.g., 🛠️ Obsidian)
🔌: Software plugins (e.g., 🔌 Obsidian – Dataview plugin)
📚: Concepts and terms (e.g., 📚 Eekschiller)
🥗: Dishes and recipes
🍷: Wines (e.g., 🍷 Chablis 2020 – Dominique Laurent)
🍻: Beers (e.g., 🍻 Moersleutel – Hoppy Stout)
🕹️: Computer games
🎲: Board games
🎟️: Subscriptions and accounts (e.g., 🎟️ New York Times)
🔗: URLs and hosting (e.g., 🔗 www.digitalfitness.com)
🌳: Trees in garden (e.g., 🌳 Magnolia)
🌱: Plants in garden (e.g., 🌱 Wisteria)
⛬: Historical events (e.g., ⛬ Battle of Culloden 1767)
⬆️: Non-predefined items (e.g., ⬆️ 2024-11-25 Create a Dedicated Page for PKM Meetups – Maarten)
possession_types:
👕: Clothing
🎒: Bags
⛺️: Camping gear
🗜: Tools (clamps)
🛠: Tools (general)
🪚: Saws
⌨️: Keyboards
🪑: Chairs
🖼️: Art/pictures
GPT 5
people:
"👥": "Person you’ve met"
"🗣️": "Person you haven’t met yet"
"⚱️": "Prefix for deceased person (use with 👥)"
organizations:
"🛗": "Organization/company"
"🛗 🛩️": "Organization of special interest (e.g., aviation/airline)"
"🛗 🎒": "Organization/brand of special interest (e.g., gear/bag brand)"
locations:
"🇨🇭": "Country (any flag emoji for countries)"
"🛤️": "Destination (region, city, village, or natural area)"
"🏣": "Building"
"🏡": "House/home"
"🚉": "Train station"
"✈️": "Airport"
"🏰": "Castle"
activities_and_events:
"🎪": "Event/activity"
"🎪🎹": "Concert"
"🍿": "Cinema outing"
"🎤": "Public performance / talk"
"👏": "Talk feedback note"
"🗺️": "Outing/excursion"
"👣": "Walk/hike"
"🛣️": "Road trip"
"🛎️": "Hotel stay"
"🚕": "Taxi ride"
"🛫": "Flight"
"🍽️": "Dining out"
"🥡": "Takeout"
"💍": "Wedding"
"⚰️": "Funeral"
"🙌": "Significant life event"
"🔩": "Small household fix/maintenance task"
"👨🌾": "Garden/harvest task"
reflections_and_feelings:
"🌈": "Nice/positive thing"
"🌪️": "Unpleasant/negative thing"
"👍": "Compliment received"
"🙏": "Thank-you received"
"🤔": "Reflection"
"✨": "Insight"
"💭": "Dream"
work_communications:
"💬": "Reach-in (inbound question)"
"🙋♂️": "Request for help"
"🤝": "Reach-out (outbound contact)"
"☎️": "Phone call"
"🫶": "Connection/intro message"
"🔗": "Link/URL-related item (also used for LinkedIn traction posts and domains/sites)"
"📅": "Meeting"
"🔑": "Opportunity (track with Status: Open)"
projects_and_structure:
"⚗️": "Project"
"📇": "Map of Content (MOC) / index hub"
"📥": "Inbox (quick thoughts and tasks)"
"⬆️": "Quick capture / non-predefined item"
research_and_sources:
"🎓": "Research page/topic"
"✂️": "Web article clipping"
"🎙": "Podcast episode recorded"
"🖋": "Interview (conducted or given)"
media_and_books:
"📺": "Film or series"
"💿": "Album"
"🎵": "Song/lyrics"
"🎹": "Artist"
"🗞": "Newspaper"
"📗": "Book"
"📙": "Children’s book"
"📒": "Comic book"
"📗📖": "Book I’ve written (author)"
"✍️✍️": "Manuscript in progress / reviewing"
"✍️": "Article draft"
"✒️": "Published article"
knowledge_and_concepts:
"🔬": "Thing I want to understand"
"📚": "Concept/term to learn"
purchases_possessions_and_software:
"🛒": "Purchase over €20"
"🛒📗": "Book purchase"
"📦": "Possession (generic item record)"
"👕": "Clothing"
"🎒": "Bag"
"⛺️": "Tent/outdoor gear"
"🗜": "Clamp/vise"
"🛠️": "Software/tool"
"🪚": "Saw"
"⌨️": "Keyboard"
"🪑": "Furniture"
"🖼️": "Art"
"🔌": "Plugin (e.g., Obsidian plugin)"
food_and_drink:
"🥗": "Dish/recipe"
"🍷": "Wine"
"🍻": "Beer"
accounts_domains_and_subscriptions:
"🎟️": "Subscription/account"
nature_and_garden:
"🌳": "Tree (in my garden)"
"🌱": "Plant (in my garden)"
history:
"⛬": "Historical event"
Consolidate
Prompt
finish the consolidate step and give me the final yaml
GPT-5 and GeminiPro hallucinated a different structure than given.
ontology:
source: "Personal Ontologies: The Future of Information Management by Martijn Aslander"
description: "A mapping of emojis to specific knowledge management concepts."
url: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/personal-ontologies-future-information-management-martijn-aslander-nkjle/
notes: |
- "Emoji help visual recognition faster than text"
- "ISO 8601 date format enables chronological sorting"
- "Templates automate metadata entry"
- "Dataview queries create dynamic overviews"
- "~15 minutes daily maintenance for 20-40 items"
- "System evolved over 20 years of experimentation"
- naming_patterns:
-- dated_activity: "emoji date time location – description (e.g., 🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Birthday)"
-- person: "emoji Name (e.g., 👥 Jan Janssen)"
-- organization: "emoji Name (e.g., 🛗 AFAS)"
-- location: "emoji Name (e.g., 🏰 Castle Name)"
-- book: "emoji Title (e.g., 📗 The Invention of Nature)"
-- possession: "emoji Brand – Model (e.g., 📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30)"
metadata_fields:
- status: "Status: open/closed"
- action: "Action: call/check/buy/ping/write/read"
- rating: "Rating: importance/urgency level"
- date: "Date: ISO 8601 format"
- location: "Location: where it occurred"
- people: "People: who was involved"
- project: "Project: related project"
- organization: "Organization: related organization"
- cost: "Cost: financial information"
- time_of_day: "Time: morning (mi), afternoon, evening"
categories:
people:
- symbol: "👥"
meaning: "People I have met"
example: "👥 Jan Janssen"
Claude Sonnet 4.5
ontology:
source: "Personal Ontologies: The Future of Information Management by Martijn Aslander"
description: "A mapping of emojis to specific knowledge management concepts for personal information management in Obsidian."
url: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/personal-ontologies-future-information-management-martijn-aslander-nkjle/
notes: |
- Emoji help visual recognition faster than text
- ISO 8601 date format enables chronological sorting
- Templates automate metadata entry
- Dataview queries create dynamic overviews
- ~15 minutes daily maintenance for 20-40 items
- System evolved over 20 years of experimentation
naming_patterns:
dated_activity: "emoji date time location – description"
dated_activity_example: "🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Birthday"
person: "emoji Name"
person_example: "👥 Jan Janssen"
organization: "emoji Name"
organization_example: "🛗 AFAS"
location: "emoji Name"
location_example: "🏰 Castle Name"
book: "emoji Title"
book_example: "📗 The Invention of Nature"
possession: "emoji Brand – Model"
possession_example: "📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30"
metadata_fields:
- status: "Status: open/closed"
- action: "Action: call/check/buy/ping/write/read"
- rating: "Rating: importance/urgency level"
- date: "Date: ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD)"
- location: "Location: where it occurred"
- people: "People: who was involved"
- project: "Project: related project"
- organization: "Organization: related organization"
- cost: "Cost: financial information"
- time_of_day: "Time: morning (mi), afternoon, evening"
categories:
people:
- symbol: "👥"
meaning: "People I have met"
example: "👥 Jan Janssen"
- symbol: "🗣️"
meaning: "People I haven't met yet"
example: "🗣️ Adam Grant"
- symbol: "⚱️"
meaning: "Prefix for people who have passed away (used with 👥)"
example: "⚱️👥 Jan Janssen"
organizations:
- symbol: "🛗"
meaning: "Organizations (general) - elevator symbol represents many people"
example: "🛗 AFAS"
- symbol: "🛗🛩️"
meaning: "Airlines or aviation organizations of special interest"
example: "🛗🛩️ KLM"
- symbol: "🛗🎒"
meaning: "Brands followed closely"
example: "🛗🎒 Tom Bihn"
locations:
- symbol: "🇨🇭"
meaning: "Countries (using flag emojis)"
example: "🇨🇭 Switzerland"
- symbol: "🛤️"
meaning: "Destinations - regions, cities, villages, natural areas"
example: "🛤️ Amsterdam"
- symbol: "🏣"
meaning: "Buildings - places you can enter"
example: "🏣 Central Station Building"
- symbol: "🏡"
meaning: "Houses - homes lived in or visited"
example: "🏡 Childhood home"
- symbol: "🚉"
meaning: "Train and metro stations"
example: "🚉 Utrecht Centraal"
- symbol: "✈️"
meaning: "Airports"
example: "✈️ Schiphol"
- symbol: "🏰"
meaning: "Castles and historical buildings"
example: "🏰 Muiderslot"
activities_and_events:
- symbol: "🎪"
meaning: "General events and activities"
example: "🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Jan Janssen's Birthday"
- symbol: "🎪🎹"
meaning: "Concerts"
example: "🎪🎹 2022-07-07 – Rolling Stones Concert Amsterdam Arena"
- symbol: "🍿"
meaning: "Cinema outings / movies watched in theater"
example: "🍿 Cinema 2023-08-12 mi Oppenheimer"
- symbol: "🎤"
meaning: "Public performances and speaking engagements"
example: "🎤 2025-01-09 mi Erasmus University – Students International Business"
- symbol: "👏"
meaning: "Feedback received on talks"
example: "👏 2025-01-11 Jan Janssen – in response to talk at Raad van State"
- symbol: "🗺️"
meaning: "Outings (with partner, family, or for work)"
example: "🗺️ 2022-12-18 Outing Muiderslot"
- symbol: "👣"
meaning: "Walks and hikes"
example: "👣 2024-10-27 mi Rozendaalse Veld and Beekhuizense Bos – with Mark"
- symbol: "🛣️"
meaning: "Road trips and adventures"
example: "🛣️ 2024-10-03 Road trip to Elp"
- symbol: "🛎️"
meaning: "Hotel stays"
example: "🛎️ 2023-11-14 Mövenpick Karachi"
- symbol: "🚕"
meaning: "Taxi rides"
example: "🚕 2022-11-25 Utrecht – Haarlem"
- symbol: "🛫"
meaning: "Flights (with full airport and flight details)"
example: "🛫 2024-02-20 Flight xxx 06:40 to Lisbon from Schiphol"
- symbol: "🍽️"
meaning: "Dining out experiences"
example: "🍽️ 2023-05-03 Golden Bull – Maarten van den Berg"
- symbol: "🥡"
meaning: "Takeout meals"
example: "🥡 2024-12-06 Erawan"
- symbol: "💍"
meaning: "Wedding ceremonies"
example: "💍 2025-05-01 Haarlem – Jan Jansen and Petra Bakker"
- symbol: "⚰️"
meaning: "Funeral services"
example: "⚰️ 2022-07-08 Funeral of Jan de Vries"
- symbol: "🙌"
meaning: "Significant life events and unique experiences"
example: "🙌 2022-08-14 Skydiving with the commandos"
tasks:
- symbol: "🔩"
meaning: "Small maintenance tasks"
example: "🔩 2025-01-03 Task – Tidy cables under the bed"
- symbol: "👨🌾"
meaning: "Garden and farming/harvesting tasks"
example: "👨🌾 2024-10-06 Harvest sweet potatoes"
- symbol: "🔩👨🌾"
meaning: "Combined small tasks and gardening"
example: "🔩👨🌾 2024-12-29 Task – Remove compost bin"
personal_reflections:
- symbol: "🌈"
meaning: "Nice things and joyful moments"
example: "🌈 2025-01-11 I ran into Jan Janssen spontaneously after years"
- symbol: "🌪️"
meaning: "Unpleasant things and bad moments (for reflection)"
example: "🌪️ 2025-01-02 I had a terrible night because of a crying cat"
- symbol: "👍"
meaning: "Compliments received"
example: "👍 2025-01-11 – From my partner about my writing productivity this week"
- symbol: "🙏"
meaning: "Thank-yous received from others"
example: "🙏 2025-01-11 – From Genieke Hertoghs for promoting her book"
- symbol: "🤔"
meaning: "Personal reflections and thoughts"
example: "🤔 2025-01-11 Is the ontology post getting too long?"
- symbol: "✨"
meaning: "Insights and realizations"
example: "✨ 2025-01-11 Writing about my ontology is helping me clarify the bigger picture"
- symbol: "💭"
meaning: "Dreams to document and analyze"
example: "💭 2025-01-14 I dreamed I visited an underwater cave"
work_and_communication:
- symbol: "💬"
meaning: "Reach-in - incoming questions or messages"
example: "💬 2025-01-03 – Jan Janssen about dining tips in Haarlem"
- symbol: "🙋♂️"
meaning: "Requests for help"
example: "🙋♂️ 2024-10-25 – Jan Janssen about tips for getting his book into the library"
- symbol: "🤝"
meaning: "Reach-out - outgoing messages to others"
example: "🤝 2024-11-13 – Eppo van Nispen about the upcoming PKM Summit"
- symbol: "☎️"
meaning: "Phone calls and discussions"
example: "☎️ 2025-01-09 Menno Spaan – About the Digital Fitness Academy course"
- symbol: "🫶"
meaning: "Connection messages - introducing people to each other"
example: "🫶 2025-01-06 Alja and Marcel should meet up"
- symbol: "🔗"
meaning: "LinkedIn traction posts (also used for URLs and hosting)"
example: "🔗 2024-11-21 LinkedIn traction post about information literacy"
- symbol: "📅"
meaning: "Meetings and formal encounters"
example: "📅 2025-01-09 morning Maeva – Thijs about hosting and domains"
- symbol: "🔑"
meaning: "Opportunities identified"
example: "🔑 2025-01-16 – Now that Jan Janssen has this job, he can help with the Month of Digital Fitness"
projects_and_organization:
- symbol: "⚗️"
meaning: "Projects"
example: "⚗️ PKM Summit 2025"
- symbol: "📇"
meaning: "Map of Content (MOC) - index and overview pages"
example: "📇 MOC – PKM Summit"
- symbol: "📥"
meaning: "Inbox - quick thoughts and tasks"
example: "📥 Quick idea about productivity"
- symbol: "⬆️"
meaning: "Unprocessed items needing action / non-predefined quick capture"
example: "⬆️ 2024-11-25 Create a Dedicated Page for PKM Meetups – Maarten"
research_and_learning:
- symbol: "🎓"
meaning: "Research pages on specific topics to learn"
example: "🎓 Coffee"
- symbol: "🔬"
meaning: "Things I want to understand / curiosity questions"
example: "🔬 2022-07-12 How are matches made?"
- symbol: "📚"
meaning: "Concepts and terms to learn"
example: "📚 Eekschiller"
- symbol: "✂️"
meaning: "Web articles clipped and saved"
example: "✂️ Scientists Discovered How to Control the Casimir Effect—and Supercharge Tiny Machines"
media_and_content:
- symbol: "📺"
meaning: "Films and series"
example: "📺 Drops of God"
- symbol: "💿"
meaning: "Music albums"
example: "💿 Nothing Like the Sun"
- symbol: "🎵"
meaning: "Individual songs and lyrics"
example: "🎵 Lyrics Nature Boy – Nat King Cole"
- symbol: "🎹"
meaning: "Musical artists and performers"
example: "🎹 The Rolling Stones"
- symbol: "🗞"
meaning: "Newspaper subscriptions"
example: "🗞 The Guardian"
- symbol: "📗"
meaning: "Books (general)"
example: "📗 The Invention of Nature"
- symbol: "📙"
meaning: "Children's books"
example: "📙 Oh, How Beautiful is Panama"
- symbol: "📒"
meaning: "Comic books"
example: "📒 Redbeard – The Broken Compass"
- symbol: "📗📖"
meaning: "Books written by author"
example: "📗📖 Easycratie"
- symbol: "✍️✍️"
meaning: "Manuscripts being reviewed or worked on"
example: "✍️✍️ How to Build an Information Organization"
- symbol: "✍️"
meaning: "Article drafts in progress"
example: "✍️ My Personal Ontology"
- symbol: "✒️"
meaning: "Published articles"
example: "✒️ How to Capture an Opportunity as It Passes By"
- symbol: "🎙"
meaning: "Podcast recordings"
example: "🎙 2022-10-27 De Gelukkige Thuiswerker"
- symbol: "🖋"
meaning: "Interviews conducted or given"
example: "🖋 2024-02-02 morning Interview with IP Magazine"
purchases_and_possessions:
- symbol: "🛒"
meaning: "Purchases (over €20)"
example: "🛒 2025-01-15 Handy kitchen gadget by brand Y"
- symbol: "🛒📗"
meaning: "Book purchases"
example: "🛒📗 2024-12-01 The Invention of Nature"
- symbol: "📦"
meaning: "Possessions and belongings (general)"
example: "📦 General item"
- symbol: "👕"
meaning: "Clothing items"
example: "👕 Winter jacket"
- symbol: "🎒"
meaning: "Bags"
example: "📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30"
- symbol: "⛺️"
meaning: "Camping equipment and tents"
example: "⛺️ Camping tent"
- symbol: "🗜"
meaning: "Tools (clamps and vises)"
example: "🗜 Workbench clamp"
- symbol: "🛠"
meaning: "Tools (general)"
example: "🛠 Hammer set"
- symbol: "🪚"
meaning: "Cutting tools and saws"
example: "🪚 Hand saw"
- symbol: "⌨️"
meaning: "Computer keyboards and tech hardware"
example: "⌨️ Mechanical keyboard"
- symbol: "🪑"
meaning: "Furniture pieces and chairs"
example: "🪑 Office chair"
- symbol: "🖼️"
meaning: "Art, pictures, and frames"
example: "🖼️ Wall art"
tech_and_software:
- symbol: "🛠️"
meaning: "Software applications"
example: "🛠️ Obsidian"
- symbol: "🔌"
meaning: "Software plugins and extensions"
example: "🔌 Obsidian – Dataview plugin"
- symbol: "🎟️"
meaning: "Subscriptions and accounts"
example: "🎟️ New York Times"
- symbol: "🔗"
meaning: "URLs and hosting domains (also LinkedIn traction)"
example: "🔗 www.digitalfitness.com"
food_and_drink:
- symbol: "🥗"
meaning: "Dishes and recipes"
example: "🥗 Caesar salad recipe"
- symbol: "🍷"
meaning: "Wine selections and notes"
example: "🍷 Chablis 2020 – Dominique Laurent"
- symbol: "🍻"
meaning: "Beer varieties and notes"
example: "🍻 Moersleutel – Hoppy Stout"
entertainment:
- symbol: "🕹️"
meaning: "Computer games"
example: "🕹️ Video game title"
- symbol: "🎲"
meaning: "Board games"
example: "🎲 Board game title"
nature_and_garden:
- symbol: "🌳"
meaning: "Trees in garden"
example: "🌳 Magnolia"
- symbol: "🌱"
meaning: "Plants in garden"
example: "🌱 Wisteria"
historical:
- symbol: "⛬"
meaning: "Historical events to learn about"
example: "⛬ Battle of Culloden 1767"
Grok 4
ontology:
source: "Personal Ontologies: The Future of Information Management by Martijn Aslander"
description: "A mapping of emojis to specific knowledge management concepts."
url: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/personal-ontologies-future-information-management-martijn-aslander-nkjle/
notes: |
- "Emoji help visual recognition faster than text"
- "ISO 8601 date format enables chronological sorting"
- "Templates automate metadata entry"
- "Dataview queries create dynamic overviews"
- "~15 minutes daily maintenance for 20-40 items"
- "System evolved over 20 years of experimentation"
- naming_patterns:
-- dated_activity: "emoji date time location – description (e.g., 🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Birthday)"
-- person: "emoji Name (e.g., 👥 Jan Janssen)"
-- organization: "emoji Name (e.g., 🛗 AFAS)"
-- location: "emoji Name (e.g., 🏰 Castle Name)"
-- book: "emoji Title (e.g., 📗 The Invention of Nature)"
-- possession: "emoji Brand – Model (e.g., 📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30)"
metadata_fields:
- status: "Status: open/closed"
- action: "Action: call/check/buy/ping/write/read"
- rating: "Rating: importance/urgency level"
- date: "Date: ISO 8601 format"
- location: "Location: where it occurred"
- people: "People: who was involved"
- project: "Project: related project"
- organization: "Organization: related organization"
- cost: "Cost: financial information"
- time_of_day: "Time: morning (mi), afternoon, evening"
categories:
people:
- symbol: "👥"
meaning: "People I have met"
example: "👥 Jan Janssen"
- symbol: "🗣️"
meaning: "People I have not met yet"
example: "🗣️ Adam Grant"
- symbol: "⚱️"
meaning: "Prefix for people who have passed away"
example: "⚱️👥 Jan Janssen"
organizations:
- symbol: "🛗"
meaning: "Organizations (General)"
example: "🛗 AFAS"
- symbol: "🛗 🛩️"
meaning: "Organizations with special interest (e.g., airlines)"
example: "🛗 🛩️ KLM"
- symbol: "🛗 🎒"
meaning: "Organizations with special interest (e.g., brands followed closely)"
example: "🛗 🎒 Tom Bihn"
locations:
- symbol: "🇨🇭"
meaning: "Countries (using flag emojis)"
example: "🇨🇭 Switzerland"
- symbol: "🛤️"
meaning: "Destinations (regions, cities, villages, natural areas)"
example: "🛤️ The Hague"
- symbol: "🏣"
meaning: "Buildings"
example: "🏣 Office Building"
- symbol: "🏡"
meaning: "Houses (lived in or visited)"
example: "🏡 Home in Haarlem"
- symbol: "🚉"
meaning: "Stations (train/metro)"
example: "🚉 Utrecht Central"
- symbol: "✈️"
meaning: "Airports"
example: "✈️ Schiphol"
- symbol: "🏰"
meaning: "Castles and historical buildings"
example: "🏰 Muiderslot"
activities_and_events:
- symbol: "🎪"
meaning: "General events and activities"
example: "🎪 2025-01-11 mi The Hague – Jan Janssen’s Birthday"
- symbol: "🎪🎹"
meaning: "Concerts"
example: "🎪🎹 2022-07-07 – Rolling Stones Concert Amsterdam Arena"
- symbol: "🍿"
meaning: "Cinema outings / Movies"
example: "🍿 Cinema 2023-08-12 mi Oppenheimer"
- symbol: "🎤"
meaning: "Public performances / Speaking engagements"
example: "🎤 2025-01-09 mi Erasmus University – Students International Business"
- symbol: "👏"
meaning: "Feedback received on talks"
example: "👏 2025-01-11 Jan Janssen – in response to talk at Raad van State"
- symbol: "🗺️"
meaning: "Outings (with partner, family, or work)"
example: "🗺️ 2022-12-18 Outing Muiderslot"
- symbol: "👣"
meaning: "Walks / Hikes"
example: "👣 2024-10-27 mi Rozendaalse Veld and Beekhuizense Bos – with Mark"
- symbol: "🛣️"
meaning: "Road trips"
example: "🛣️ 2024-10-03 Road trip to Elp"
- symbol: "🛎️"
meaning: "Hotel stays"
example: "🛎️ 2023-11-14 Mövenpick Karachi"
- symbol: "🚕"
meaning: "Taxi rides"
example: "🚕 2022-11-25 Utrecht – Haarlem"
- symbol: "🛫"
meaning: "Flights"
example: "🛫 2024-02-20 Flight xxx 06:40 to Lisbon from Schiphol"
- symbol: "🍽️"
meaning: "Dining out"
example: "🍽️ 2023-05-03 Golden Bull – Maarten van den Berg"
- symbol: "🥡"
meaning: "Takeout"
example: "🥡 2024-12-06 Erawan"
- symbol: "💍"
meaning: "Weddings"
example: "💍 2025-05-01 Haarlem – Jan Jansen and Petra Bakker"
- symbol: "⚰️"
meaning: "Funerals"
example: "⚰️ 2022-07-08 Funeral of Jan de Vries"
- symbol: "🙌"
meaning: "Significant life events / Unique experiences"
example: "🙌 2022-08-14 Skydiving with the commandos"
tasks:
- symbol: "🔩"
meaning: "Small tasks / Maintenance"
example: "🔩 2025-01-03 Task – Tidy cables under the bed"
- symbol: "👨🌾"
meaning: "Gardening or harvesting tasks"
example: "👨🌾 2024-10-06 Harvest sweet potatoes"
- symbol: "🔩👨🌾"
meaning: "Combined small/gardening tasks"
example: "🔩👨🌾 2024-12-29 Task – Remove compost bin"
sentiment_and_reflection:
- symbol: "🌈"
meaning: "Nice things / Joyful moments"
example: "🌈 2025-01-11 I ran into Jan Janssen spontaneously after years"
- symbol: "🌪️"
meaning: "Unpleasant things / Bad moments"
example: "🌪️ 2025-01-02 I had a terrible night because of a crying cat"
- symbol: "👍"
meaning: "Compliments received"
example: "👍 2025-01-11 – From my partner about my writing productivity this week"
- symbol: "🙏"
meaning: "Thank-yous received"
example: "🙏 2025-01-11 – From Genieke Hertoghs for promoting her book"
- symbol: "🤔"
meaning: "Reflections"
example: "🤔 2025-01-11 Is the ontology post getting too long?"
- symbol: "✨"
meaning: "Insights"
example: "✨ 2025-01-11 Writing about my ontology is helping me clarify the bigger picture"
- symbol: "💭"
meaning: "Dreams"
example: "💭 2025-01-14 I dreamed I visited an underwater cave"
- symbol: "🔬"
meaning: "Things I want to understand / Curiosity"
example: "🔬 2022-07-12 How are matches made?"
communication_and_interaction:
- symbol: "💬"
meaning: "Reach-In (Inbound questions)"
example: "💬 2025-01-03 – Jan Janssen about dining tips in Haarlem"
- symbol: "🙋♂️"
meaning: "Requests for help"
example: "🙋♂️ 2024-10-25 – Jan Janssen about tips for getting his book into the library"
- symbol: "🤝"
meaning: "Reach-Out (Outbound connections)"
example: "🤝 2024-11-13 – Eppo van Nispen about the upcoming PKM Summit"
- symbol: "☎️"
meaning: "Phone calls"
example: "☎️ 2025-01-09 Menno Spaan – About the Digital Fitness Academy course"
- symbol: "🫶"
meaning: "Connection messages (connecting two other people)"
example: "🫶 2025-01-06 Alja and Marcel should meet up"
- symbol: "🔗"
meaning: "LinkedIn traction posts (also used for URLs and hosting)"
example: "🔗 2024-11-21 LinkedIn traction post about information literacy"
- symbol: "📅"
meaning: "Meetings"
example: "📅 2025-01-09 morning Maeva – Thijs about hosting and domains"
projects_and_opportunities:
- symbol: "🔑"
meaning: "Opportunities"
example: "🔑 2025-01-16 – Now that Jan Janssen has this job, he can help with the Month of Digital Fitness"
- symbol: "⚗️"
meaning: "Projects"
example: "⚗️ PKM Summit 2025"
- symbol: "📇"
meaning: "Maps of Content (MOCs) / Indexes"
example: "📇 MOC – PKM Summit"
- symbol: "📥"
meaning: "Inbox (quick thoughts and tasks)"
example: "📥 Quick note on idea"
- symbol: "⬆️"
meaning: "Unprocessed / Non-predefined items"
example: "⬆️ 2024-11-25 Create a Dedicated Page for PKM Meetups – Maarten"
media_and_content:
- symbol: "🎓"
meaning: "Research pages / Topics to learn"
example: "🎓 Coffee or 🎓 Sleep"
- symbol: "✂️"
meaning: "Web articles / Clippings"
example: "✂️ Scientists Discovered How to Control the Casimir Effect—and Supercharge Tiny Machines"
- symbol: "📺"
meaning: "Films and Series"
example: "📺 Drops of God"
- symbol: "💿"
meaning: "Music albums"
example: "💿 Nothing Like the Sun"
- symbol: "🎵"
meaning: "Lyrics and individual songs"
example: "🎵 Lyrics Nature Boy – Nat King Cole"
- symbol: "🎹"
meaning: "Artists / Musicians"
example: "🎹 The Rolling Stones"
- symbol: "🗞"
meaning: "Newspapers"
example: "🗞 The Guardian"
- symbol: "📗"
meaning: "Books (general)"
example: "📗 The Invention of Nature"
- symbol: "📙"
meaning: "Children’s books"
example: "📙 Oh, How Beautiful is Panama"
- symbol: "📒"
meaning: "Comic books"
example: "📒 Redbeard – The Broken Compass"
- symbol: "📗📖"
meaning: "Books written by the user"
example: "📗📖 Easycratie"
- symbol: "✍️✍️"
meaning: "Manuscripts being reviewed or worked on"
example: "✍️✍️ How to Build an Information Organization"
- symbol: "✍️"
meaning: "Articles working on (Drafts)"
example: "✍️ My Personal Ontology"
- symbol: "✒️"
meaning: "Published articles"
example: "✒️ How to Capture an Opportunity as It Passes By"
- symbol: "🎙"
meaning: "Podcasts recorded"
example: "🎙 2022-10-27 De Gelukkige Thuiswerker"
- symbol: "🖋"
meaning: "Interviews conducted"
example: "🖋 2024-02-02 morning Interview with IP Magazine"
- symbol: "📚"
meaning: "Concepts and Terms"
example: "📚 Eekschiller"
- symbol: "⛬"
meaning: "Historical events"
example: "⛬ Battle of Culloden 1767"
possessions_and_purchases:
- symbol: "🛒"
meaning: "Purchases (General, over €20)"
example: "🛒 2025-01-15 Handy kitchen gadget by brand Y"
- symbol: "🛒📗"
meaning: "Book purchases"
example: "🛒📗 The Invention of Nature"
- symbol: "📦"
meaning: "Possessions (General)"
example: "📦 General item"
- symbol: "👕"
meaning: "Clothing"
example: "👕 Shirt"
- symbol: "🎒"
meaning: "Bags"
example: "📦🎒 Tom Bihn – Synik 30"
- symbol: "⛺️"
meaning: "Camping gear"
example: "⛺️ Tent"
- symbol: "🗜"
meaning: "Tools (Clamps)"
example: "🗜 Clamp tool"
- symbol: "🛠"
meaning: "Tools (General)"
example: "🛠 Hammer"
- symbol: "🪚"
meaning: "Tools (Saws)"
example: "🪚 Saw"
- symbol: "⌨️"
meaning: "Keyboards / Tech hardware"
example: "⌨️ Mechanical Keyboard"
- symbol: "🪑"
meaning: "Furniture"
example: "🪑 Chair"
- symbol: "🖼️"
meaning: "Art / Decor"
example: "🖼️ Painting"
tech_and_admin:
- symbol: "🛠️"
meaning: "Software"
example: "🛠️ Obsidian"
- symbol: "🔌"
meaning: "Software plugins"
example: "🔌 Obsidian – Dataview plugin"
- symbol: "🎟️"
meaning: "Subscriptions and Accounts"
example: "🎟️ New York Times"
food_nature_games:
- symbol: "🥗"
meaning: "Dishes and recipes"
example: "🥗 Salad Recipe"
- symbol: "🍷"
meaning: "Wine"
example: "🍷 Chablis 2020 – Dominique Laurent"
- symbol: "🍻"
meaning: "Beer"
example: "🍻 Moersleutel – Hoppy Stout"
- symbol: "🕹️"
meaning: "Computer games"
example: "🕹️ Game Title"
- symbol: "🎲"
meaning: "Board games"
example: "🎲 Monopoly"
- symbol: "🌳"
meaning: "Trees (in garden)"
example: "🌳 Magnolia"
- symbol: "🌱"
meaning: "Plants (in garden)"
example: "🌱 Wisteria"