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When you create a brain you pick a template. A template is the brain’s starting structure: the folders it is organised into, the kinds of pages it expects (people, meetings, projects, decisions), and the guidance the filing skills follow when they decide where something belongs. A good structure is what makes filing consistent. When a meeting transcript arrives, the librarian should not have to invent a filing system on the spot: the template already says meetings are filed by date, that attendees get person pages, and that decisions are recorded where the team will look for them.

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The starter templates

Pick the closest fit rather than the perfect one. A template is a starting point, not a straitjacket: pages and folders can always be added, and the brain grows around what you actually put in it.

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Try it

  1. Create a new brain and browse the template gallery before choosing.
  2. Pick Company, then look at the empty folder structure it created.
  3. Drop in a meeting transcript and notice it lands where the template says meetings live.