- The threshold for useful capture is low
- Even noisy notes contain enough signal for AI retrieval
- Compression is noise-tolerant in a way generation isn’t
- This lowers the burden: just capture something, then query later
“No human could read all of this in a lifetime. AI consumes it in seconds.”
Perfectionism about note-taking misses the point. The bottleneck was never capture—it was retrieval and synthesis. AI solves that, so imperfect inputs still compound.