Ontological Type System
Journal Person Place Work Event Idea

Place

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Type Place
Title Place
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State Stable
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Associations OTS
Created 2026-05-08

A location or institution. Both physical places (Locust Ridge Preserve, Hudson Flea Market) and organizational entities (Notre Dame, Grace Reformed Church). Institutions have a kind of locatedness; people gather in them, are formed by them, leave them.

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Childhood home 1 A small white house with a screened porch and a magnolia in the front yard. Two bedrooms, one bath,…
Faith Bible Church 1 The church my mother has attended since I was five. Stone and clapboard, set back from the road…
Grace Reformed Church 1 A small Presbyterian congregation about twenty minutes from the house, off a county road that…
Hudson Flea Market 1 Outdoors, in the gravel lot behind what used to be the foundry. April through November, every…
Locust Ridge Preserve 1 A county-managed preserve about forty minutes from the house. Three loop trails, one out-and-back…
McAllister's Tavern 1 Two blocks from where book club meets, on the corner with the dry cleaners that closed in 2021 and…
Ontological Type System 1 The Ontological Type System is a method for personal knowledge management built on classical realism. Where most note systems organize by topic or task, OTS organizes by what kind of thing each note's referent actually is: a Journal entry, Person, Place, Work, Event, or Idea. There are six types, and only six. Everything fits. The result is a graph that grows by accretion rather than by hierarchy, and a vault that can hold a lifetime of thinking without ever needing to be reorganized.
University of Notre Dame 1 The University of Notre Dame is, since the early nineteen eighties, the institutional center of…
University of Oxford 1 The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the…
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