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Getting started

PaSiCC keeps everything that matters to you – notes, projects, people, tasks – as nodes connected to each other. Instead of putting a thing into one folder, you connect it to every place it belongs to.

The idea in one minute

  • A node has a title, an optional line of attributes (e.g. TODO !2 <friday) and an optional description.
  • Nodes are arranged in a hierarchy: a node can have children below it and parents above it – and unlike folders, a node can have several parents. "Paint the door" can be below "Bathroom" and below "Weekend jobs".
  • Nodes sharing a parent are siblings.
  • Cross-links connect any two nodes beside the hierarchy, e.g. "Tiles" and "Hardware store".

The name says it: Parents, Siblings, Children, Cross-links.

Your first node

  1. Open Top level (at the top of the node view). Top-level nodes are the ones without a parent – your areas of life or main projects, e.g. "Home", "Work", "Health".
  2. Type a title and choose Create new (or press Ctrl+Enter). The new node opens in the focus view.
  3. Below it, under Children, choose + add, type a title and choose Create "…" (or press Ctrl+Enter) to add a child, e.g. "Bathroom" below "Home".

Click any node to focus it. That's all you need to start; everything else can grow over time.

Making something a task

Write a task marker such as TODO into a node's title or its attributes line, e.g. Paint the door TODO !2 <friday. When creating a node, the attributes typed into its title are moved to its attributes line: the title becomes "Paint the door", the attributes TODO !2 and the due date. Tasks opens the task list with all your tasks, most urgent first – see Tasks and the task list.

Where to go next