---
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).