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

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

# <Title>

<compiled truth — what the idea is, why it matters, how it could work, what's been explored. weave [[wikilinks]] into the prose wherever you mention another idea, cluster, or concept that has its own page. link on first mention only, use display text for readability: [[slug|natural text]].>

---

## timeline

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

ingestion workflow

when a new source is dropped into sources/:

read the source fully
write a source-summary in wiki/summaries/
determine if this matches an existing idea page (same concept, different capture)
if yes: merge into existing idea page, update compiled truth, add timeline entry
if no: create a new idea page
check if the idea fits into an existing cluster or warrants a new one
if the idea became an actual project, note status: built and reference which project
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