Notes as Event Sourcing

March 4th, 2026

Two kinds of notes:

  • Episodic — "meeting on Jan 12th", "chat with Priya on Jan 24th"
  • Semantic — "Alice leads Project Porcupine"

Most pkm tools treat these as the same thing


But really

  • the episodic notes are closer to events
  • semantic ones are closer to a materialized view

When the events conflict (Jan 24th — Bob now leads), the view should update(?!)