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title, is_a, related_to, author, date
| title | is_a | related_to | author | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capturing People and Meetings | Note | Personal Knowledge Management | Luca Rossi | 2025-01-28 |
The Person type is one of the most useful in my vault. Here's how I use it.
One note per person
Every person I interact with meaningfully gets a Person note. Not just colleagues — also people I meet at conferences, authors whose work I follow, collaborators I might reach out to.
A minimal Person note looks like this:
---
title: Matteo Cellini
is_a: Person
role: Head of Partnerships
related_to: "[[Refactoring Newsletter]]"
---
The body holds context: how we met, what they're working on, anything I want to remember.
Meetings as connections
When I have a meeting, I create a note for it and link everyone present via related_to. This means every Person note accumulates backlinks over time — a natural history of interactions without any manual effort.
Finding things later
The power comes when you need to remember something. Open a person's note, look at their backlinks — you see every meeting, every shared project, every note that mentioned them. It's the closest thing I've found to having a good memory.
The pattern
Person notes are intentionally sparse upfront. I add context as I interact with people. A note that starts as just a name and a role grows into something genuinely useful over months.