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# Efforts 🏋️
> Efforts allow ideas to breath. Projects smother them.

You can use this data view to compile any note you tag with: `#effort`

``` dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
 file.link as Efforts,
 rank as "Rank"

FROM #effort

SORT rank desc


```


## Why "Efforts" are liberating
Thinking of your efforts as "efforts"—and not projects—is liberating and empowering because:

- **The definition is clear** 
    - Efforts require some sort of *effort*. When you tag a note as an effort, you are letting yourself know that some sort of effort is intended.
- **The definition is not too clear**
    - Efforts have _linguistic wiggle room_. Terms like "projects" are too narrow in scope to define the breadth of what an effort can be. This ambiguity is a feature, not a bug.

Learn more about efforts:

- [[The big differences between efforts and projects]]
- [[How ideas and efforts play nicely together]]