A daily media dump I can actually search
The Dream Fix
Ask a plain question — 'that clip from the beach a fortnight ago' — and have the right file come straight back.
The fix is one place everything lands every day, described well enough that a plain-English question finds it. The open question is whether searching it ever beats just scrolling.
NOTICE
I knew I had the shot. I could not find the shot.
Phone, camera card, laptop screenshots, a folder called 'new', and whatever the voice recorder decided to name things. Every day adds more. Nothing gets a name that means anything.
So when I want the one clip from a fortnight ago, I scroll. That is the whole thing: I already own it and still cannot reach it.
SIMPLIFY
Smallest version: one landing spot, described on arrival.
Everything gets pulled into a single daily pile without me sorting anything. As each item lands it gets described in ordinary words — what is in it, when, roughly where — and that description is what I search.
What it does badly, on purpose: it will not organise anything into folders, it will not delete duplicates, and its descriptions will sometimes be confidently wrong. If asking it a question does not beat scrolling even with those faults, tidier folders were never the fix.
FIND OUT
Does anyone search their own stuff, or just scroll?
I do not want opinions on whether search sounds useful. I want to know what people reach for when they need something from three weeks ago.
So: tell me whether you would use this, and put your hand up if you have a pile like mine and want to point it at your own mess.
Three ways in
Your turn.
None of this is a promise that the thing ships. It's how I decide whether it should.
Would you actually use this?
One tap. No email, no name.
Want it early and rough?
I'll email you when there's something to break, and tell you what happened either way.
What other people said
Nothing here yet. Be the first to tell me I'm doing it wrong.