The Pipeline

When a note is saved it lands in the vault, a watcher notices, and a twelve-stage pipeline runs without your involvement. No folder choice, no tagging, no filing decision. The note you saved is already where it needs to be.

Twelve stages, on their own

What each stage does

The pipeline infers a structure for your notes. The same twelve stages run on everything you save, so capture stays as fast as the thought, and structure arrives after, inferred from what you wrote. This is part of how Existential reveals the shape of your thinking.

In plain terms, the pipeline tidies the note into a consistent format and reads it twice, once for its structure and once for its meaning. It breaks the note into passages that follow its ideas rather than its line breaks, and gives each passage a mathematical fingerprint so the Oracle can find what resembles it. It scores each passage for conviction, the Oracle's read of how load-bearing the thinking is. It places the note in a category by what it is about, and it weaves the note into the graph alongside everything related you have already written. For notes you wrote yourself, the Oracle writes the links back into the file, connecting it to the rest of your knowledge.

If a stage fails, the work stops there and the note waits. The note holds at the point it stopped, and the original file you saved is untouched, ready to be picked back up.

When the pipeline finishes, the note is scored, linked, and placed, ready for tomorrow's brief to draw on.