As their name implies, atomic notes focus on a single idea or concept. The goal of atomic notes is to explain one thing well.

Following the ideas of the Zettelkasten method, notes should be atomic and link to each other. Longer texts can be assembled by composing atomic notes together.

The benefits of atomic notes are that they:

• Don’t take too long to write
• Are easy to explain
• Are easy to describe
• Are easy to categorize/tag
• Are reusable and composable

My advice is to try and maximize the number of atomic notes in your knowledge base.

References

• Principle of atomicity: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/create-zettel-from-reading-notes/
• An article I wrote: https://www.dsebastien.net/the-value-of-atomic-notes/