How search works

In plain terms: this is the heart of the brain. You ask a question the way you would ask a person, and it finds the answer across everything it has stored, even if you do not remember the exact words you used. It searches by meaning, not just matching keywords, so “that idea about the offsite” finds the right note even if you called it something else.

What you can do with it

• “Find the note where I sketched the pricing idea.”
• “What do I know about retention at Acme?”
• “Pull everything related to the Q3 roadmap.”
• “Who have I talked to about fundraising?”

How it works (simply)

When information enters the brain, it is broken into small pieces and each piece is turned into a kind of “meaning fingerprint.” When you ask a question, your question gets the same treatment, and the brain returns the pieces whose meaning is closest. That is why it works even when your wording is different from the original text.

It pulls from both halves of the brain at once: your documents and notes, and your structured facts about people and companies.

Honest limits

• It can only find what has been loaded. An empty or thinly-loaded brain returns thin answers. The fix is loading your real material at setup and feeding it over time.
• It is a retrieval and reasoning aid, not the source of truth. Always confirm anything important against the original.

Learn more

• Overview
• How information gets in