Something that reads the pile and points at the stories
The Dream Fix
Have something read last month's footage for me and say: these three bits go together, and here is the story.
The fix is a short daily read of the pile that says 'these three things go together, and here is why that might be a story'. Whether the suggestions are worth reading is the whole test.
NOTICE
The material is fine. Nobody reviews it.
Once the searching problem is solved, a second one shows up immediately: you can find anything, and still never look. The pile only pays off if someone goes back through it.
Going back through it is exactly the job that never happens, because it has no deadline and no obvious payoff until you are already doing it.
SIMPLIFY
Smallest version: a short list of maybes, once a day.
Each day it looks over what came in and what is already there, and offers a handful of possible threads — a repeat, a before-and-after, a thing said twice in different moods — with the pieces attached so I can judge in seconds.
What it does badly, on purpose: most suggestions will be duds, it has no taste, and it does not know what I care about this week. If a short list of mostly-duds still shakes out one usable idea, that is the whole win.
FIND OUT
Do the suggestions get used, or dismissed?
Saying 'that is clever' costs nothing. Opening one and doing something with it is the only signal I trust.
So: tell me whether you would use this, and put your hand up if you make things from footage and want to see what it finds in yours.
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.