{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/treat-a-failed-re-find-as-indexing-feedback",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0697",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Treat a failed re-find as indexing feedback",
  "summary": "The failed query is evidence about the mapping between need and information.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "When a valuable search fails and you eventually find the item, record the words, context or path you tried. Add the missing alias, retrieval cue or link to the canonical entry. Fix the system at the exact point where your future mental model proved different from the current index.",
  "limits": [
    "Do not optimize for every accidental wording; fix failures that recur or matter."
  ],
  "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": [
    "You know the information exists but cannot locate it when needed."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Do not optimize for every accidental wording; fix failures that recur or matter."
  ],
  "example": "You searched 'vendor retry timeout' but the note was called 'HTTP resilience defaults'; adding the failed phrase as an alias makes the next search cheap.",
  "check": "A repeated failed query becomes less likely after the note is found once.",
  "steps": [
    "A repeated failed query becomes less likely after the note is found once."
  ],
  "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": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0697",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0698",
      "type": "use_before",
      "url": "/knowledge/test-refindability-with-the-words-your-future-self-is-likely-to-have"
    }
  ],
  "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"
    }
  ]
}