#### <s class="topic-title">[[topic notes]]</s> In:: [[knowledge management]] and [[note writing]], topic notes are blend of many similar concepts such as structure notes ([[Zettelkasten]]) or maps of content ([[Nick Milo]]) and are characterized by their focus on organizing other notes. Topic notes can be used in substitution for or addition to tags depending on the system. Distinctions that would be included within topic notes would be [[Term notes]] and [[stub notes]]. In:: [[My TIM]], Topic notes are good places to classify what you know about what other people know, which means that they can take a different voice than [[evergreen notes]] or [[source notes]]. Topic notes used in this way are similar to Wikipedia articles, providing relatively unopinionated [[information]]. Topic notes can also be good places to define what a term means and how it is used specific to your notes. Topic notes should be able to form naturally from your other notes so they should be titled however they would be naturally written. It should be titled as `Firstname Lastname`, `ACRONYM`, and as simply as possible i.e `[[second brain]]` instead of `The Second Brain`.