Improve one thing every time you touch a note — kaizen…

When This Fires

• Every time you open a note for any reason (reading, linking, referencing)
• When you re-read a note and find the title doesn't match the content
• When a note requires you to remember something that should be written in the note itself
• Any interaction with a note where you notice a small quality issue

Common Failure Mode

Trying to fully refactor every note you touch. The rule is one small improvement, not "fix everything wrong with this note." If you try to do a complete overhaul during a casual interaction, you break your workflow for the task you were actually doing. One improvement per touch. The note will be touched again, and improved again then.

The Protocol

Each time you touch a note: (1) Read it. (2) Notice one thing that could be better (vague title, missing context, tangled claim, broken link, stale information). (3) Fix that one thing — 30 seconds maximum. (4) Move on with your original task. Over time, frequently-accessed notes converge toward high quality, and rarely-accessed notes stay as-is (which is fine — if nobody touches them, nobody needs them polished).