> "Most of what is in my vault, I would not re-read if you forced me. The useful 5% is buried under the rest." ^pain A personal maintenance pain. Storage is cheap; pruning costs attention. Old drafts, duplicate captures, abandoned projects accumulate. Signal-to-noise drops in every search, and trust in the store drops with it. The worker mentally writes off the older material rather than facing the cleanup. ## Discovery questions - "How much of what is in your storage today would you actually re-read if you knew you had to clear it?" - "When was the last time you deleted something from your notes — and what made you finally do it?" ^discovery-questions ## Examples - Computers in Human Behavior (2018) on "digital hoarding": individuals keep thousands of unorganised files and emails, impeding their ability to find trustworthy information.[^1] [^1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563217307250