Maintained by Peter Salvato
Format: Chronological, versioned, semantic
© 2025 Peter Salvato. All rights reserved.
- Markdown reflection prompts
- YAML frontmatter (
---) - Freeform authorship inside journal-like entries
- Unstructured
- Compatible with markdown notebooks
- Human-readable, but non-parseable
- Lacked recursion fidelity and structural enforcement
- Could not support drift tracking or team overlays
- Difficult to validate across tools
- Too close to traditional journaling
- Triple-pipe metadata headers (
||| key:value) <Savepoint>open and close block structure- Markdown inside
- More structured than v1
- Still visually bulky and fragile
- Metadata was parseable, but irregular in behavior
- Savepoints looked like blog entries
- Format confusion with YAML and markdown
- No enforcement of atomicity
- Verbosity slowed traversal and obscured recursion intent
- Self-closing tag:
<Savepoint ... /> - Colon-delimited key-value pairs
- Single
#line for semantic content - No close tag
- Fully atomic
<Savepoint
protocol_version:3.0
category:conceptual_boundary
function:initial_release
timestamp:2025-04-08T20:58:00Z
# This Savepoint marks the canonical release of version 3.0.
/>