title: "Draft — Why vault-first beats feed-first thinking" project: "blog-knowledge-management" tags:

• draft
• blog
• knowledge-management date: 2026-04-07 status: draft target_date: 2026-04-21 word_count_target: 1200

Why vault-first beats feed-first thinking

Feeds reward recency, not reuse. A personal vault rewards notes you can find in six months when the problem comes back dressed as a new emergency.

Thesis

Knowledge work compounds when the default capture surface is yours—searchable, linkable, and exportable—before anything gets polished for an audience.

Outline (working)

1. The cost of feed capture — bookmarks rot; threads scroll away.
2. Vault-first habits — title + tags + one sentence of context on save.
3. Publish from inventory — blog posts as distillations, not as the primary store.
4. Closing — invite readers to pick one inbox and clear it into five titled notes.

To finish

• [ ] Add concrete example (e.g., debugging runbook → public post).
• [ ] Cite one study or industry report on information overload (clip in research/).

Current word count — ~180 (draft stub).