Reflect

Capture gathers; reflection understands. The reflection pipeline takes a batch of notes (a session, a week, a project) and extracts the durable signal: decisions, patterns, contradictions, connections, and gaps.

When to Use

• Weekly review of captured notes
• After a heavy research or meeting week
• Preparing for a decision that needs the full picture
• Before distilling a skill from repeated patterns (see distill)

Don't use for: nightly cleanup (see consolidate - that's structure; this is meaning).

The 5-stage pipeline