Types & Properties
Give thoughts a kind, like Task or Person, with their own fields.
What are types?
A type is a kind of thought, like Task or Person, with its own fields. A Task might have a status and a due date, and a Person an email.
Assigning types to thoughts
Edit a thought and click the + above its title to pick one or more types. The thought gets each type's fields to fill in, and the type's icon shows on its card.
Property types
Fields can hold text, numbers, dates, checkboxes, a choice from a list, a link to another thought, a color or an icon. Web addresses in text fields become clickable links.
Wikilinks inside property values
Type [[ in a text field to link to a thought, just like in the notes. If the field is linked to a type, a thought you create there gets that type, like a new Author from a book's author field.
Hidden properties
Mark a field as Hidden in the type editor to tuck it away on cards. It keeps its value and still shows up in search.
Dates on time types
Day, Week, Month and Year thoughts have a built-in date field, so they sort in order. To set a week or a month, pick any day inside it.
Subtypes and the Types garden
Types live as thoughts in a special Types garden, where you can browse and connect them. A subtype, like Bug Report under Task, gets all of its parent's fields plus its own.
Naming a new type
Good types are easy to tell apart, for you and for the AI. Follow these when you make one.
- 1Name: a short, singular noun in Title Case, like Recipe.
- 2Slug: lowercase with dashes, like ai-agent. It can't change later.
- 3Description: one sentence under 12 words. Don't start with A or An.
- 4Aliases: up to four other names people would really use.
- 5Color and icon: unique, so the type stands out from its siblings.