Would an example help? Maybe Iāll write this up in a post properly someday but I havenāt settled on an exact structure yet. At the moment I have 3 Dynalist files:
- Daily log
- Actions
- Projects
I use backlinks is to be able to have actions and logged events appear under the project they related to. So in my Projects file I might have
Project: Move house
+This is a breakdown of the steps involved
+Sell current house
Ā±----Estate agents
+Buy new house
Ā±----Mortgage
Then under the Actions file I may have
Phone calls to make:
Ā±ā Ring around estate agents to get valuations
Things to do online:
Ā±ā Get a quote for best mortgage rate
And under Daily log file I might have:
29th September
Ā±ā Called BlueBricks - they want 2% commission, calling Tuesday
Now without backlinks itās hard to keep track of all that. In the past Iāve tried tags to link things together. So I personally use the itemās note to insert a backlink wherever I want to say that an action or log refers to a project, e.g.
Ring around estate agents to get valuations
[[Project: Move house]] <<this is what I type in the note but it gets changed to [Project: Move house](http://dynalist.io/d/89782u3hd8489yfe/...)
So now, when I zoom in (I think doing this is more useful than the blue numbered bullet, though thatās an indicator for me there are things linked to it) to my move house project, I see:
Project: Move house
+This is a breakdown of the steps involved
+Sell current house
Ā±----Estate agents
+Buy new house
Ā±----Mortgage
Backlinks:
Ring around estate agents to get valuations (Actions > Phone calls to make)
Get a quote for best mortgage rate (Actions > Things to do online)
Called BlueBricks - they want 2% commission, calling Tuesday (Daily log > 29th September)
Thatās just my way though. That can be reversed so you can keep your actions within your project plan and then backlink to an action list to see all e.g. phone calls across all projects, but with my way I can do different ordering across projects within the actions file.
Other example: I also put a link in the note under an action, to the day entry in the day log before I move it to the Actions file, e.g.
30th September
Ā±āTake car in for service
[[30th September]]
So similarly when I zoom into 30th September I see everything I logged on that day, plus backlinks to the actions I created on that day that are now in the action lists.
Iād like to experiment with creating a knowledge management system where backlinks link topics, but thatās just an idea for now.