Flipping through your old notes suddenly “feels like sifting through stale garbage,” as Dan Shipper found, disillusioned after building a galaxy of notes in Roa

Flipping through your old notes suddenly “feels like sifting through stale garbage,” as Dan Shipper found, disillusioned after building a galaxy of notes in Roam Research. I don't have that experience with my notes at all. I regularly refer to old notes. A sample of the queries my notebook (really a folder full of text files) has answered: - How did I sort those things in bash? - What were the setup steps for that software? - Where did I get this fact that I'm quoting? - I have a bad impression of this movie, why is that? - Why did I choose to architect this code this way; what pitfalls was I avoiding? - What was that brand of tea that I like? - What voltage RAM does that old laptop use? Sure, I can reconstruct all of this information with a combination of Google, experimentation, and physical examination of the relevant items. But it takes time. Having this information compiled in an easily grep-able format is like having information in RAM, versus having to fetch it from the hard drive.