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Beyond notes: diagrams, tasks, and spreadsheets

A knowledge base usually starts with text. Then the work expands. A page needs a diagram. A folder needs a task list. A project needs a spreadsheet. Switching tools for each of those jobs adds overhead that has nothing to do with the work itself.

Yoinko now supports more page types in the same workspace tree: diagram files, kanban task pages, priority to-do lists, spreadsheet pages, uploaded files, Markdown pages, and HTML pages.

Diagram files are for visual thinking: flows, system sketches, rough architecture, and anything that is easier to understand spatially than in prose.

Kanban task pages are for project movement. They give a folder or workspace a board where tasks can move through stages instead of hiding in paragraphs.

Priority to-do lists are intentionally lighter. They live at the top of folder pages above search and split work into Low, Medium, and High post-it columns. That makes them useful for quick triage without turning every folder into a full project board.

Spreadsheet pages cover the structured side: trackers, inventories, matrices, and simple tables that need rows and columns rather than a prose editor.

The important part is not that Yoinko replaces every specialized tool. It is that common knowledge-work formats can sit beside each other, in the same folder tree, attached to the same context.