It is a dashboard designed to be an easy-to-maintain index into the notes of my vault.
Make my notes more discoverable by grouping them into related topics.
As with Wikipedia, promote linking between notes and topics.
Remember that Personal Knowledge Management or PKM starts with the word Personal. You need to customize this method to your personal needs and preferences.
The need for simplicity
I can’t emphasize this enough: simplicity. I didn’t want to place any constraints on my note-making. I want ideas to flow, research to be gathered, knowledge to be synthesized, and creativity to flourish.
As you will see, Dashboard++ is made up of two simple things:
A CSS style sheet you add to your vault that provides some missing formatting powers
The use of markdown lists for creating structured indexes