{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/write-one-retrieval-cue-in-the-title",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0688",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Write one retrieval cue in the title",
  "summary": "The future query may not resemble the source's headline.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Name the note with at least one cue from the future problem, task or decision—not only the document's original title. Keep the exact source title in metadata when useful. The goal is to give content search and scanning a bridge from need to information.",
  "limits": [
    "Do not stuff titles with every synonym; one or two strong cues are enough when full-text search exists."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-personal-knowledge-refinding-and-maintenance"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
    "RS-5525599D0E9B225A"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "PIM research emphasizes a mapping between information and anticipated or current need: keeping moves from information toward a future need, while finding moves from need toward information.",
      "source_id": "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "People cannot predict every future use, so keeping rules should be lightweight and revisable.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Information re-finding research distinguishes content search, browsing structures and contextual cues as different ways people relocate previously encountered information.",
      "source_id": "RS-5525599D0E9B225A",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The review is older and specific tools have changed; the retrieval-mode distinction remains the relevant claim.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A saved note has a descriptive title but not the words you will remember when the need returns."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Do not stuff titles with every synonym; one or two strong cues are enough when full-text search exists."
  ],
  "example": "Instead of 'Green Book 2026 notes,' use 'Project estimate optimism bias — Green Book 2026.'",
  "check": "You can imagine the phrase you would search later and see it in the title or aliases.",
  "steps": [
    "You can imagine the phrase you would search later and see it in the title or aliases."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-54CEA9242974EAB3",
      "title": "Personal Information Management",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03291"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-5525599D0E9B225A",
      "title": "A survey on information re-finding techniques",
      "url": "https://www.emerald.com/ijwis/article-abstract/7/4/313/165143/A-survey-on-information-re-finding-techniques"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-5086A3A5AA1D243D",
      "title": "Keep knowledge so you can find, trust and reuse it later",
      "url": "/collections/keep-knowledge-so-you-can-find-trust-and-reuse-it-later"
    }
  ]
}