For my understanding, do you use this exclusively when you know the time you want to be reminded, or do you ever use it to surface information at an arbitrary point in the future?
I am curious what you are using for indexing and how you typically search through the scanned content. Is it mostly keyword based search, or do you have any way of surfacing things beyond exact matches?
This is a really thoughtful breakdown. Thank you for taking the time to write it up.
The idea of writing for your future self as if they will be an amnesiac fits closely with my experience as well. Ironically, I've found that the more I record, the less I find or can surface later.
What stood out to me is how you treat usefulness as a learned skill rather than something you try to get right up front. It seems like you are only investing more effort when a note actually comes back into play, and the feedback loop of rereading seems to shape how you write over time.
I am curious about a few aspects of how this works for you in practice:
1. How often do you intentionally reread or revisit older notes versus only encountering them when you are searching for something specific?
2. How do you deal with clutter over time? Eventually the note pool becomes large enough that maintenance becomes challenging in my experience.
3. With linking and aliases, do you find that maintenance effort scales reasonably as your notes grow, or does it require more discipline over time?
4. Related to that, do you find linking and aliasing less tedious than the concept of relying on a strong search experience? Most note systems I have used seem to depend heavily on exact string matching or tags, which works up to a point but often feels less supportive to the experience than it could be in my opinion.