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Suggest next move

Suggest the most useful next action to develop this note.

Called suggest-next-move in the step's YAML.

A Knowledge action. It asks nothing in the wizard. It turns the note's place in the knowledge model into a concrete to-do — no text or AI inference. Deterministic and offline.

Settings

  • Result property — where the suggested moves are written. Default: nextMoves.
  • Write to — Frontmatter (a property on the note) or Context (only for the next steps). Default: Frontmatter. Either way the next steps can use it as {{<result property>}}, e.g. {{nextMoves}}.
  • Target note (optional) — the note to assess. Empty uses the note being built.

The moves

In this order, only those that apply:

Move When
Add a source the note makes a claim but cites no source
Connect it to a related note the note has no outgoing links
Add an example the note is connected but declares no example relation
Develop it toward the next state the note is in an early lifecycle state (not yet permanent or evergreen)

A note that needs none of these gets "Well developed — no action needed." instead.

What it writes

---
nextMoves:
  - Add a source
  - Add an example
---

A notice reports the count. It pairs with Calculate maturity: that one says how mature, this one says what to do next. If the index isn't ready or the note isn't indexed, the action does nothing.

Finish it in place

The same suggestion drives This note's next-step card: it shows one move at a time and lets you finish it — add the source, link the note, mark the example, move the state on — without leaving the sidebar, with an undo.

Capabilities

File-system read + the disclosed result-property write. No network, no AI.