What I learned trying to make search work by feeling instead of filename
We shipped a "smart search" that looked finished and had never once worked. What broke, what we learned, and where search by feeling honestly stands today.
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The Trase blog
Notes on memory and rediscovery, plus the decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons behind building Trase.
Why Trase doesn't have folders, and why that took a while to decide
The most common feature request we got was "just add folders." Here's why we said no, and what we built instead.
Read postWhat is a "second brain," and do you actually need one
The "second brain" metaphor promises more than most systems deliver. What the term gets right, what it oversells, and where Trase fits instead.
Read postWhere to go now that Pocket is gone
Pocket shut down and took years of saved links with it. An honest look at the replacements, and the part none of them solve.
Read postThe problem with tagging everything
Tagging systems always start clean and fall apart within months. That's not a discipline problem — it's a timing problem.
Read postYour mind doesn't organize itself. It leaves traces.
Memory doesn't arrive labeled. It comes in fragments — and the tools we use to save things ask for something memory was never built to give.
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