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Plate TOOL·044 · ToolGrid E4 · Rev. 2026-08-14

Notion

Flexible documents and databases, used by many teams as a lightweight research repository.

ToolCraft conventionFoundational

Definition

A workspace combining documents, wikis and databases. Its flexibility makes it a common home for research notes, design decisions and specifications in smaller teams.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

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Good for

  • Design documentation
  • Lightweight research repositories
  • Decision records

Watch out for

Flexibility becomes sprawl without structure. Search degrades as volume grows.

Local chart

TOOL·044 · Region VII · Grid E4

This entry and the entries it is stated to connect with. Each line is labelled with what the connection means.

Design System DocumentationSYS·003 · OFTEN USED WITHResearch SynthesisRES·014 · OFTEN USED WITHProduct SpecificationTPL·011 · OFTEN USED WITH

Continue from here

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

Often used with

These usually appear in the same screen or the same decision.

Nearby in the Atlas

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.

Axure RPConfluenceFigJam