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# Ideas Wiki — Schema

this wiki collects and synthesizes all of harrison's project ideas, product ideas, and big ideas. sources are primarily ideaflow notes tagged with idea-related hashtags, plus obsidian `ideas/` folder and any idea-tagged apple notes.

mutually exclusive with the notes wiki — if it's an idea, it lives here; if it's not, it lives there.

## page types

### idea
a single project/product idea, potentially synthesized from multiple captures.
- frontmatter: `type: idea`, `title`, `tags`, `status` (raw|explored|in-progress|built|abandoned), `first_captured`, `sources`

### idea-cluster
a group of related ideas that share a theme or problem space.
- frontmatter: `type: idea-cluster`, `title`, `tags`, `ideas` (list of linked idea pages)

### source-summary
a 1:1 summary of a source document.
- frontmatter: `type: source-summary`, `title`, `source_path`, `source_origin`, `date`

## page format

```markdown
---
type: <page-type>
title: <title>
tags: [<tags>]
status: <status>
first_captured: <iso-date>
updated: <iso-date>
sources: [<source-file-paths>]
---

# <Title>

---

## timeline

- [<date>] <capture or update event>
```

## ingestion workflow

when a new source is dropped into `sources/`:
1. read the source fully
2. write a `source-summary` in `wiki/summaries/`
3. determine if this matches an existing idea page (same concept, different capture)
4. if yes: merge into existing idea page, update compiled truth, add timeline entry
5. if no: create a new idea page
6. check if the idea fits into an existing cluster or warrants a new one
7. if the idea became an actual project, note `status: built` and reference which project
8. update `index.md` and `log.md`

## idea classification tags (from ideaflow)

primary: `#projectidea`, `#newprojectidea`, `#bigprojectidea`
secondary: any note from obsidian `ideas/` folder, apple notes with idea-like content

## cross-referencing

- weave `[[slug|display text]]` wikilinks inline in prose — first mention only, don't over-link
- no dedicated "connections" or "see also" sections — if a relationship matters, it belongs in the text
- link related ideas to each other inline
- when an idea became a real project, mention it inline with the project name
- do NOT link to notes wiki — these are separate wikis