MentisCell – Notes Best Practices: Standards

Summary

Standards ensure consistency, interoperability, and long-term reliability in note-taking.
Using widely adopted formats reduces friction and improves automation.

Link to this note

MentisCell – Notes Best Practices: Standards

Content

Recommended standards include:

• YAML — metadata and properties.
• JSON — structured data exchange.
• CSV — tabular data.
• WikiLinks — internal linking ([[Note]]).
• ISO-8601 — dates and times (YYYY-MM-DD).
• ASCII — file names for portability.

These standards are supported across programming languages, BI tools, and note-taking systems.

Essence

• Standards = interoperability.
• Reduce ambiguity, improve automation.
• Ensure future-proofing of notes.

Interconnections

• Hub – Notes Best Practices
• Metadata and input quality
• Dates and temporal properties

Tags

#standards #bestpractices #mentiscraft #obsidian

Contributors

Created with the support of Microsoft Copilot on 2025-10-04.
Validated and edited by Jorge Godoy.

Source or Origin of Information

• Original - Notes Best Practices