# Evergreen note concept Created On: 06-17-2023 10:48 am Up:: [[My Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: Related:: [[Difference between permanent and evergreen notes]] --- An evergreen note is a continuously evolving note. It is a note whose content is never truly finished; it is constantly influenced and improved by the notes that exist around it, especially those notes that come after it. ^3bb019 This concept is profoundly counter to the common purpose of traditional writing: we write with a goal to reach a final state. Historically, this may be a school paper/report, a letter, etc. These all have fixed life times and we typically discard or forget them once we’re finished with them. ^218f48 Evergreen notes have the exact opposite value proposition: they continue to generate value as your [[Digital garden (DG)]] grows and matures. That’s why evergreen notes are such a power concept of [[Zettelkasten]] - as new ideas are introduced to your vault, existing ideas evolve and generate relationships: [[Emergence (MOC)]]! 🧙 This is related to this philosophical concept: [[You never step in the same river twice]].