The OSINT Workflow That Finally Made My Notes Useful

Short summary

The author describes an OSINT note-taking workflow called IEB (Intake, Enrichment, Build) that replaced their hoarding habit with a structured system. Intake uses a five-line template for fast capture, enrichment creates pivot maps with confidence ratings, and the build stage produces actionable outputs. The approach emphasizes speed over elaboration and investigation-organized notes over source-type folders.

• •IEB workflow: Intake (5-line template), Enrichment (daily pivot maps), Build (actionable output)
• •Notes organized by investigation, not by source type, with confidence ratings on every pivot
• •Speed in capture is prioritized; if a note can't answer a question in 60 seconds it's storage not intelligence

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