[[🍀 Home]] --- Maps of Content is a map of the content contained in a [[Personal knowledge management]] or a [[Zettelkasten]] system: The [[Obsidian]] vault. Similar to [[Controlled vocabulary]]. This creates a form of [[Heterarchy]]. You can see that [[Non-fungible token MOC]] is listed under both [[Art MOC]] and [[Cryptocurrency MOC]]. A map should be **_useful_**. It should give direction in the vast forest of notes. I want it to create meaning and connections for my mind to work with. ## Maps - [[Art MOC]] - [[Non-fungible token MOC]] - [[Health MOC]] - [[Sauna MOC]] - [[Sleep MOC]] - [[Music MOC]] - [[Clothing MOC]] - [[Denim MOC]] - [[Computer science MOC]] - [[Programming MOC]] - [[Infrastructure MOC]] - [[Amazon Web Services MOC]] - [[Site Reliability Engineering MOC]] - [[Computer security MOC]] - [[Cryptocurrency MOC]] - [[Non-fungible token MOC]] ## Why MOCs [A case for MOCs](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/a-case-for-mocs/2418/4) The [[LYT Kit]] has some examples of MOCs. The [[🍀 Home]] note is a dashboard for all MOCs. MOCs provide structure around all the notes. > Maps of Content enables power through Structural Centrality > I mean when the number of things you need to index become sufficiently large, a MOC won’t be much different from a detailed table of content. Instead I recommend thinking about a MOC as one grand narrative about the things that the MOC index. You can both have an index and a narrative in a MOC if you so choose. [On the process of making MOCs](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/on-the-process-of-making-mocs/1060/83) [[Map–territory relation]]: > A map _is not_ the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a _similar structure_ to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. [Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age](https://www.amazon.com/Index-History-Adventure-Medieval-Manuscripts-ebook/dp/B098TZ17NC). > The origin of the index is in alphabetical ordering of words, followed by introduction of tables of contents, chapters and the numbering of paragraphs. Page numbering in manuscripts depended on the page size; it only became consistent with printing. Consistent page numbering allowed the use of consistent indexing. ## Wikipedia portals > [Portals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals) complement main topics in Wikipedia, and expound upon topics by introducing the reader to key articles, images, and categories that further describe the subject and its related topics. Portals also assist in helping editors to find related projects and things they can do to improve Wikipedia, and provide a unique way to navigate Wikipedia topics. > > At present, there are 530 portals. They also have outlines like [Outline of computer science on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_science). https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/alphabetical-order/