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# Documentation & Note Taking

**Date:** 9/5/2021  
**Attendees:** Cody & Graven  

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- The long term vision for the Geo Web is to be publicly governed and maintained
- As of right now, only our small team is engaged in the important discussions that will set the trajectory of the project
- Over time, hopefully others will join the conversation
- The challenge we will have is to expose them to the history of conversations, trade-offs, and reasoning behind why decisions were made
- Documentation formalizes and communicates the &quot;way things are&quot; and good documentation should also illuminate rationale behind the design decisions where appropriate
- But there&#39;s also room for a more raw stream of history capturing the design and development of the project
- &quot;[Digital Gardens](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history)&quot; and sharing notes
  - [Roam](https://roamresearch.com/) and other wiki-like note taking tools/communities
  - Cody uses [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/)
  - [Notion](https://www.notion.so/)
  - [https://maggieappleton.com/nontechnical-gardening](https://maggieappleton.com/nontechnical-gardening)
- Take notes during all online and offline discussions and share them publicly
  - Take better notes
  - Create a paper trail for future self to review
  - Improve team visibility/communication
  - Create an in-depth onboarding mechanism for someone interested in the Geo Web
    - Scales better than the current team being responsible for catching a new member up through the entire history of the project
  - Goal: Improve future decision making by having better informed stakeholders/decision makers
- Proposal: Start publishing a Geo Web digital garden
  - What to publish
    - Weekly status updates
    - Meeting notes
    - Concept and spec ideation/formation/drafting
  - Where to publish
    - Start with a Github repo
    - Move to [Radicle](https://radicle.xyz/)?
  - Note taking format/tools
    - Markdown &amp; wikilinks based notes, so use any editor with those features:
      - [https://obsidian.md/](https://obsidian.md/)
      - [https://gitjournal.io/](https://gitjournal.io/)
      - [https://tiddlywiki.com/](https://tiddlywiki.com/)
      - [https://hackmd.io/](https://hackmd.io/)
        - [https://hackmd.io/c/tutorials/%2Fs%2Flink-with-github](https://hackmd.io/c/tutorials/%2Fs%2Flink-with-github)
    - Follow git based rules for committing/updating the repo
- Action Items
  - Research and propose standardized toolset for our team (Cody)
  - Create a Github repo
  - Create templates for Weekly Status and Meeting Notes documents
  - Start taking and publishing notes
  - Research Radicle vs or working with Github (long term transition)
