Search needs the right words. Memory usually doesn’t have them.
A practical experiment in finding useful details when the words in your question do not match the words in your notes.
Notes about notes—without the productivity sermon.
Experiments and strong opinions about capture, retrieval, automatic organisation and answers you can verify.
AI notes should show their receipts.
An answer from your notes is only useful when you can inspect the exact notes that support it.
Folders are work you perform for a future you who may never look.
When manual organisation helps, when it becomes capture tax, and why automatic filing should remain reversible.