How to quickly link to your MOC notes

At the end of my map of content note file name, I type a space followed by a "+". Doing this allows me to quickly filter through MOC notes when I'm trying to link them to another note. Here's what it looks like:

The + also becomes a visual identifier of MOC notes when browsing the files. Although I group my MOC notes in one folder, sometimes, there is a misplaced note in the general population of notes, and the + makes it stand out.

You may have noticed that my "home" note uses a + in front of the filename, so it gets pulled up in the search results and is sorted to the top of the list.

Bullets

They looks nice, but they’re hard to type.

Before switching over the +, I used special bullet characters. The fisheye bullet, for example, was placed at the end of each MOC file name. It had the benefit of the visual marker of MOC notes in my file system, but it was impossible to type, which slowed down the file naming process (I had to find the bullet and paste it into the file name), and I couldn't filter by the bullet.

Using a character that I can type speeds up my ability to link to other notes, which is important. I optimize for speed when using my PKM because I want to think and link at the speed of thought. Thoughts are fleeting, and so are connections between ideas (and notes), so link them fast before all is lost.