Why you can't find your notes: findability is decided when you write, not search
dSebastien · x · 2026-10-23
Sébastien Dubois launches part 1 of his Obsidian search series: findability is decided when you write the note, not when you search. Key points: a 2004 MIT diary study found only 39% of re-finding attempts used keyword search — people navigate first; the encoding specificity principle (Tulving & Thomson, 1973) means retrieval cues must overlap with what was stored; and the Collector's fallacy makes unprocessed notes poison future search. He introduces the FILE framework, findability stack and LATCH models, with later parts covering naming, metadata, tags, folders and linking.
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