The status indicator reflects the current state of the work:
- Abandoned: Work that has been discontinued
- Notes: Initial collections of thoughts and references
- Draft: Early structured version with a central thesis
- In Progress: Well-developed work actively being refined
- Finished: Completed work with no planned major changes
This helps readers understand the maturity and completeness of the content.
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certainty: certain
Confidence Rating
The confidence tag expresses how well-supported the content is, or how likely its overall ideas are right. This uses a scale from "impossible" to "certain", based on the Kesselman List of Estimative Words:
1. "certain"
2. "highly likely"
3. "likely"
4. "possible"
5. "unlikely"
6. "highly unlikely"
7. "remote"
8. "impossible"
Even ideas that seem unlikely may be worth exploring if their potential impact is significant enough.
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importance: 4/10
Importance Rating
The importance rating distinguishes between trivial topics and those which might change your life. Using a scale from 0-10, content is ranked based on its potential impact on:
- the reader
- the intended audience
- the world at large
For example, topics about fundamental research or transformative technologies would rank 9-10, while personal reflections or minor experiments might rank 0-1.
Graveyardblog2026.04.24
status: In Progress·certainty: certain·importance: 5/10
Every page and feature this site ever had and lost. Each one gets a headstone with the dates and the commit that buried it.
how I avoid deprecated urls with magic urls, which automatically redirect to the latest version of a page
toolswebsitesarchiving
About This Websiteblog2025.06.03
status: In Progress·certainty: certain·importance: 10/10
Meta page describing krisyotam.com site ideals of stable long-term essays which improve over time; idea sources and writing methodology; metadata definitions; copyright license.