Plain files in a deliberate shape that both you and AI can navigate.
A well-structured document vault — plain files in a deliberate shape — that makes data findable, linkable and trustworthy for both you and AI.
The word carrying the weight is plain. Not because plain text is charming, but because every other property depends on it: an open file can be read by any tool, searched by any AI, versioned by git, and still opened in twenty years. A proprietary store gives you exactly one door and one owner of the key.
And it's a vault, not a folder — a deliberate shape rather than an accumulation. What makes it trustworthy isn't the files but the conventions: consistent frontmatter, predictable locations, real links. That's what turns "somewhere in my documents" into something a machine can navigate as confidently as you can.
Both audiences matter, and they want the same thing. What makes a vault legible to an AI is exactly what makes it legible to you in five years, when you've forgotten why any of it was filed the way it was.