2026-05-08

Imagine these are your notes. That’s the point of the demo: to show you what it would feel like if you used this method yourself.

I’ve been developing the Ontological Type System in Obsidian for a while. The Instruments page on laytheo lays out the philosophical motivation and the Github explains the methodological rules, but explanations only get you so far. Reading about a note-taking system is like reading sheet music without hearing the song. You get the structure but not the feel. So: a vault you can walk through. Real notes, real frontmatter, real wikilinks. The schema as the layout.

The notes here are semi-fictional. The thinkers and arguments and places are real. The narrator keeping the journal is not me, exactly, though the voice is close.

One thing you’ll notice: the journal moves between mundane life and serious thought without warning. A grocery run next to an argument from Aquinas. A phone call with a parent next to a passage that’s been bothering me for weeks. That’s not an accident. It’s the thing OTS is for. Reality doesn’t pre-sort itself into the categories you’d prefer. A Tuesday afternoon and a metaphysical argument arrive in the same shape, because that’s how they actually arrive. Sorting them later is fine. Pretending they came separately is a lie.

Queer to make the system the subject of a note. But that’s part of what I want to show, that the method holds up when you point it at itself.