I use a text analyzer to help with the search on my notes, and it does provide value for a free text search. It can finds notes that use similar words and phras

I use a text analyzer to help with the search on my notes, and it does provide value for a free text search. It can finds notes that use similar words and phrases, purely by token-match. If I needed to answer questions like you ask, I'd tag my notes, "work" or "todo", and use those. My hunch is that generative pre-trained transformers can help provide insights, and I'm interested in trying it out. For those struggling with their note-taking systems and stuck with exact/regex matching, the ideas in this article, while not new to me, would provide some ideas. Leaning on "AI" to be the answer to a mess of random notes probably won't get the value this article is hyping.