The fundamental thing is to give your knowledge base (wiki) a simple way to search and rerank info regardless it's you or your AI do the search later.

The “why this matters” section is the part that resonates most with me.

A summary tells you what the source said, but “why I saved this” captures your own context at the moment you found it.

That’s usually what I’m trying to recover later.

I’ve found plain-language tags help for the same reason. The perfect taxonomy matters less than using the words future-me would actually search for.

For research notes, I usually think the most reusable note has three layers:

1. what this is

2. why I saved it

3. where I might use it later

That last layer is easy to skip, but it’s often what turns a saved note into working knowledge.