{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/test-refindability-with-the-words-your-future-self-is-likely-to-have",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0698",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Test refindability with the words your future self is likely to have",
  "summary": "Creation-time clarity can disappear at retrieval time.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "After a delay or when reviewing an important note, try to find it from the future problem rather than its exact title. Search with the task, symptom, decision or remembered fragment. If the item is hard to recover, improve cues instead of blaming memory.",
  "limits": [
    "Search quality also depends on the tool; a metadata fix cannot compensate for a broken index."
  ],
  "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 knowledge system looks organized while you are building it but has never been tested after context fades."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Search quality also depends on the tool; a metadata fix cannot compensate for a broken index."
  ],
  "example": "Instead of searching 'Karabinski 2021,' test whether 'how to detach from work after hours' finds the research note.",
  "check": "Important notes can be re-found from realistic need language, not only authoring vocabulary.",
  "steps": [
    "Hide the exact title.",
    "Start from the future problem.",
    "Use natural remembered terms.",
    "Measure whether the item surfaces quickly.",
    "Add missing cues if not."
  ],
  "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-0698",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0688",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/write-one-retrieval-cue-in-the-title"
    }
  ],
  "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"
    }
  ]
}