Vocabulary¶

Term	Working meaning
Ledger	A user's authoritative collection of Idea Cards and their recorded histories.
Idea Card	The living container created by an IDE, QUE, or DEC capture.
Card Summary	The compact representation of an Idea Card in a list or search result.
Card Detail	The opened view containing the card's source, interpretation, history, and relationships.
Source Record	Immutable original wording and provenance of the capture.
Capture	The thought identified by an inline trigger.
Snapshot	An AI interpretation made at a particular time and kept separate from the Source Record.
Result	An answer or outcome attached to a Question Card.
Association	A relationship between a card and a project, category, person, or another card.
Status	The current lifecycle condition of a card.
Project Memory	Distilled documentation of the system's accepted language, structure, protocols, and state.
Component Registry	The maintained list of named, independently discussable parts of the system.
EvenFlow	The environment where a person captures, reviews, connects, and develops Idea Cards without unnecessarily interrupting thought.
CramNGo	The separate, concise learning environment that helps a person understand Idea Ledger and return to the same place in EvenFlow.
Lean	An EvenFlow layout that minimizes supporting interface elements during concentrated capture.
Regular	The default EvenFlow layout balancing capture with Card context.
Review	An EvenFlow layout emphasizing provenance, identifiers, associations, and development history.

Governing distinction¶

The Idea Card may develop; its Source Record may not be rewritten. The Ledger is authoritative about what occurred without treating the developing idea as settled truth.