How to use Linky Notes app efficiently

Although Linky Notes is built around a few simple features, combining them thoughtfully allows you to build a powerful, flexible knowledge system that many other note apps cannot offer.

Core Features

• Adding one or more tags to each note
• Tags suggestions based on content and tags relations
• Filtering notes by one or multiple tags
• Sorting notes by creation or update date
• Filtering tags by notes or related tags number
• A Markdown editor with support for HTML and inline styles
• A unique URL for each note, enabling internal linking

How you combine tagging, filtering, sorting, and linking is fully customizable. You can follow the practices below or adapt them to your own system.

General Note-Writing Principles

Keep Notes Focused on One Main Idea

Why:
Long notes often mix multiple topics, which reduces clarity and weakens tag relevance.

Good practice:

• Prefer one main idea per note
• Split large notes into smaller, focused notes
• Connect them using internal links

Result:
Clearer notes, better tag suggestions, and more relevant related notes.

Split & Consolidate Notes

• Split growing notes into small, reusable unit-notes
• Combine them later using internal links
• Create table-of-contents or index notes to organize larger topics
• Avoid orphan notes (notes with no links to others)

Tip:
If note A uses a term explained in note B, link to note B instead of redefining it.

Tagging Best Practices

You will always automatically be asked to add at least one tag to your note, so your note will be searchable/filterable by tags.

Use Fewer, More Meaningful Tags

Why:
Too many tags dilute meaning and reduce recommendation quality.

Good practice:

• Aim for 3–7 strong tags per note
• Remove tags that add little new information

Result:
Cleaner tag relationships and more accurate suggestions.

Tag by Meaning, Not by Situation

Why:
Tags should describe what the note is about, not why or when it was written.

Good practice:

• Use tags for topics, concepts, domains
• Avoid overusing temporary or workflow tags

Result:
Stronger semantic connections across your notes.

Separate Topic Tags from Meta Tags

Topic tags describe content, Meta tags describe state.

Examples:

• Topic: javascript, learning, productivity
• Meta: idea, draft, todo

Good practice:

• Use meta tags sparingly
• Don’t rely on them to describe the note’s subject

Be Consistent with Tag Names

Why:
Similar tags with different names fragment your system.

Good practice:

• Use one canonical version: "api" instead of "apis", "api-v2", "apiStuff"
• Reuse existing tags whenever possible

Result:
Cleaner autocomplete and more reliable related tags.

What Makes a Good Tag?

Tag Content and Context

Tags should describe:

• What the note is about
• How it fits into a broader context

Example (note about creating a JavaScript function):

• function
• creating function
• javascript
• programming languages
• frontend
• learning

Tag by Note Type

Use tags that describe the type of note:

• idea
• quote
• definition
• question
• summary

This allows you to group notes by purpose.

Tag by Project, Area, or Interest

Use tags that describe where the note belongs:

• learning programming
• productivity
• note app project
• meeting with management

This groups notes by projects, topics, or life areas.

Tag Sources and Authors (Optional but Powerful)

If a note references external material:

• Add author name and surname as separate tags
• Add a tag for the source (book, article, course, etc.)

This makes referencing and filtering much easier later.

Writing for Better Suggestions

Our app suggests related tags and notes based on how you write and tag your notes.

Use Content Words That Match Your Tags

Why:
Suggestions are partly based on note content.

Good practice:

• Mention key concepts explicitly in the text
• Avoid vague or overly abstract descriptions

Result:
Better content-based tag detection.

When a Tag Grows Too Big

If a tag represents a large area (e.g. "web development"):

• Create a dedicated index note
• Structure it like an article or book chapter
• Link to related tags and notes

This turns tags into navigational hubs, not just filters.

In Short

Clear notes + consistent tags = smarter suggestions

• Short notes
• Focused notes
• Consistent vocabulary
• Consistent tags

These practices help the app understand your knowledge better —
and help you find it faster later.

Links

If the content of your note comes from the website, add a source's link to your note or paste the URL.

You can also refer to other notes stored in your database using links (see markdown guide how to do a link), because every note has it's own URL.

You can organize/ group your notes this way by particular project or topic, like create notes containing lists of notes links. You may also add footnotes using built-in markdown editor & include references (as a link) to other notes stored in your app there. The possibilities are endless.

Markdown & HTML with inline styles

Use built-in markdown editor to format your notes & make them more readable (not only for links).

In addition to formatting your notes with Markdown syntax, which gives a lot of possibilities, but is quite limited, you can also use HTML with optional inline CSS styling!

Of course, that requires some basic knowledge of HTML & CSS, but if you are really motivated to turn your note into complete web page full of colors, shapes, embed elements and any layout, than you can learn it online for free pretty fast (HTML Tutorial, CSS Tutorial)