Glossary

Metadata Descriptive fields (title, tags, source, date, type) that improve organization and search.

Tagging Applying labels to items for flexible organization across projects, topics, and workflows.

Full-text Search Searching across the actual text content of saved pages, PDFs, and notes—not just titles or tags.

Semantic Search Search that matches meaning and concepts, not only exact keywords; often uses embeddings.

Embeddings Numeric representations of text or media that enable semantic search, clustering, and similarity matching.

Deduplication Detecting and consolidating identical or near-identical items to reduce clutter and storage costs.

Snapshot A point-in-time copy of data, often used for rollback, compliance, or archival proof.

WARC Web ARChive format used to store web crawls and snapshots with headers and payloads for durable preservation.

RSS A feed format for subscribing to updates; often used to automate capture of new posts into a vault.

Webhook An HTTP callback that triggers actions automatically (e.g., “new capture saved → index → notify”).