A simple cookiecutter template to use to help write consistent notes and documentation for various projects.
├── backburner.md
├── data-sources.md
├── decisions.md
├── ideas
│ └── ideas.md
├── meetings.md
├── notes.md
├── overview.md
├── planning.md
├── questions.md
├── references.md
├── tasks
│ └── tasks.md
├── toc.md
└── todo.md
Over time, I found that I ended up documenting and writing notes on many of the same main topics, but often using different filenames or separations.
Even though I may not need to use every one of these files for a given project, knowing precisely where to find the notes I'm looking for when I do is quite useful.
In the default template, most of the note topics each get a single markdown file, with the exception of "tasks" and "ideas", which are created as directories so that you can add separate markdown documents for each major task or idea.
If a given project emphasizes some other aspect (e.g. data sources) more, however, you can swap the single markdown file for a directory. As long as the same naming conventions are used, it will be easy to switch between projects.