Prose-as-title makes retrieval 10x more effective
When Claude searches your vault, note titles are the first filter. A title like productivity.md tells Claude nothing about what's inside. A title like async work beats synchronous meetings for deep work.md tells Claude exactly what the note claims — before reading a single line.
The Rule
Name notes as claims, not categories:
| Bad | Good |
|-----|------|
| memory-systems.md | memory graphs beat giant memory files.md |
| retrieval-notes.md | hybrid retrieval outperforms pure semantic search.md |
| productivity.md | async work beats synchronous meetings for deep work.md |
Why It Compounds
- Titles become a searchable index of everything you know
- Wiki-links read as prose:
we learned that [[memory graphs beat giant memory files]] - The graph becomes self-documenting
- Retrieval becomes navigation
Related
- [[wiki-links as prose makes graphs self-documenting]]
- [[memory graphs beat giant memory files]]