Logbook 2026-11-01

Today I sent a single link to the knowledge base: a video, nothing else in the message. It raised two questions at once.

The first was about the gesture itself. Newsletters arrive in bulk and the system sorts them, but a link I send directly is different. If I take the time to send it, it’s because I already see potential and interest in it. So the system now reads such a link as a submission, keeps the few words I might add as a note, and never sets it aside as off-topic. If none of my themes fits, it says so in the review, and that’s a signal for me: maybe a theme is missing.

The second was about format. What I send won’t always be an article. It can be text, a video, or audio only. Sometimes the transcript sits right on the page I share, sometimes it has to be found somewhere else, as with videos, and podcasts needed a solution of their own. Now the system reads videos and episodes through their transcript, with the description or show notes first, and the links they cite become leads to follow, just like those of a newsletter.

Transcripts bring their own imperfection. Automatic captions mishear names, so the system says when a text comes from them. When a quote from one is worth keeping in a review, it can be corrected, as long as the correction is marked as an interpretation.

When there is no transcript at all, the item stays incomplete for now. I’d rather see first whether many sources end up in that situation before going further.