Hi Left !

If you're using IQ in pure "Ecco" style, you're most likely adding a significant number of items, arranged in a hierarchy, each day. The content is mostly stored in items. Card View may not be of much use then.

I've switched a couple years ago to the daily notes -- logbook approach to information management, where most my daily information is entered in a single item's Doc pane / Item editor. IQ Tags and/or inline text tags are used along with a small number of grids to extract items (todos, done, followups, etc).

On specific projects, a hierarchy of items is used, mostly as section headings, with quite a bit of content in the Doc pane. The Copy as HTML Outline command is used to combine items and doc content into a single document (to share or to review/read)

For either of these use-cases (logbook, specific projects), Card View is useful to view multiple items with their rich-text Doc content

More info here (to be updated soon): Card View

HTH !

Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

The daily notes approach was introduced by Roam Research a number of years ago. It has since been copied by programs such as Logseq, Obsidian, Capacities, and probably others that I don't know of. 

It relies on making topic links or tags in the items on the daily notes page. When you click on a link, it takes you to the linked topic page, which has a list of backlinks at the bottom. Since those links came from pages with dates as their titles, they are listed by date.

So you end up with two logs at the same time. Each daily note logs the topics that you worked on, and each topic note logs the days that you took notes on it. 

Thanks Cyganet for the Daily notes description

I've been meaning to write up how I use it in IQ for a long time, perhaps this thread will be the triggering factor.

IQ doesn't do all what these apps do, partly by its very nature, but many changes have been made in IQ in the last few years to make it easier, and in some ways better, than these apps

Cyganet described the "mechanics" well. As far as the content itself and how to arrange it, it is based on a classical logbook. My training has been as an engineer, working in the large Canadian aerospace industry. Each engineer must keep a logbook of all notes, references, measurements, etc. in a chronological fashion, as a reference. These logbook stay with the company if he/she leaves. They are invaluable. My daily notes are basically a modern version of this logbook approach.

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