Topics

Topic are collections of notes that others may subscribe to.

When you assign a new YellowNote to a topic, it appears in the topic of your subscribers.

A YellowNote not assigned to any topic, is private to you alone. A topic is a private or public as you like. The assignement can be changed to another topic at any time, and any number of times but a note can only be assigned to one topic at a time.

subscribers

A subscriber will see individual YellowNotes in their topic or out on the internet where the notes are attached to individual web pages and content.

A topic as a virtual you

But the chat interface takes a topic as a whole as input. When your subscribers ask a question in the AI chat, they select the topics they want the answer from. The topics as a whole can be taken to represent your judgement about a topic. You have selected the underlyuing articles that are connected. This selection represent your judgement. What you chose to assemble, what you chose to highlight, what you chose to comment on. What you you chose to write into the note itself augments this.

You can also add specific instructions (a prompt) to the AI that answer the user's prompts when they angage with the topic.

In this way you can use your knowledge and expertise to guide the AI

A topic can consist of as little as a single YellowNote, containing no input from you other than you electing to attach it to a particular web page. This would still hold value because of your judgement that this page contains the information that matters. A subscriber of this topic would then be able to rely on you for selecting the source of true and relevant information.

Create a topic

To create a topic to accessible to other, you need to have an account with Yellow Notes and be logged in to Yellow Notes for the Cloud.