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Why I started building Mind Palace
My saved links become hard to use surprisingly quickly. A title stops making sense out of context, a page moves, a site disappears, or I remember the subject but not the folder where I put it. Browser bookmarks are convenient at capture time, but I want more help when I return months later.
Mind Palace started as a way to treat a saved page as an object with context instead of a bare URL. Metadata, collections, tags, notes, search and link-health checks all serve that goal.
I want storage and retrieval to be separate concerns
Folders are useful when I know how I want to organise something. Search is useful when I do not remember the organisation. I want both. A nested collection can preserve structure while full-text search gives me another route back to the same material.
Links need maintenance
A saved URL can return a 404, redirect to something unrelated or stay online with the useful content removed. Link-health monitoring gives the archive a chance to surface those changes instead of silently accumulating dead references.
Archived copies are part of the same idea. If I saved a page because the content mattered, keeping a sanitised snapshot can be more useful than keeping only the address.
There is more I want to test
I am interested in deduplication, provenance, semantic retrieval and local-first storage. I also want resurfacing to be deliberate. An archive is more useful when old material appears at the right time instead of sitting untouched after capture.