Single Source of Truth

The Single Source of Truth, or SSOT, is a concept widely used in software development that you can apply almost anywhere. The idea is to keep only one place where the truth lives. If you build a Flow that reuses the same information constantly, such as an API key, you store it in a single spot instead of copying it everywhere you need it. With that one place in charge, you can change, update, or upgrade without duplicating tasks and doubling your own work. In practice I apply this in several areas, for example a template you download once and reuse across all your Flows, which becomes your source of truth for that task. Finally, this is a strategy and a concept, so different people will interpret it in their own way, yet the core idea stays simple enough to use in other parts of your life.