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The Three-Worlds Split

Content, data and code live in deliberately separate zones.

Content, data and code live in deliberately separate zones.

A personal system has three distinct worlds that must not be mixed: content (markdown — the second brain), data (databases — the queryable layer) and code (scripts, repos). Notes aren't a database; databases aren't a repo; code doesn't live inside the content vault. Mixing them is how systems break — a database inside the content vault tanks its performance. Data-architecture discipline applied to a personal system.

Where it lives: SBM series (From Notes to a Warehouse; data-architect cluster).