Rethinking Personal Knowledge #05 Why filenames are terrible memories？
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Most file systems assume filenames are how people find information.
But that's rarely true.
Nobody naturally remembers:
Notes_v7_final_FINAL.pdf
People remember:
a sentence
a company
a topic
an idea
a conversation
While building PouchVerse, we stopped treating filenames as the center of retrieval.
Every imported document is indexed by its content instead.
The goal isn't smarter file management.
It's making retrieval work the way human memory works.
Have you ever found yourself remembering exactly what's inside a file—but not having any idea what it was called?
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