Rethinking Personal Knowledge #03 Why screenshots become a black hole?

My phone has thousands of screenshots.

Receipts.

Flight confirmations.

Interesting articles.

Error messages.

Things I wanted to remember.

The problem isn't taking screenshots.

The problem is that they quickly become impossible to organize.

Creating folders for them doesn't really help, because one screenshot can relate to work, travel, shopping, or all three at once.

While designing PouchVerse, I started treating screenshots as documents instead of pictures.

Their text is extracted and indexed automatically.

Weeks or months later, finding one starts with remembering what it said—not when you took it or where you stored it.

That's much closer to how our memory actually works.