Why Asking a Text File a Question Beats Rereading It
Plain text files are often where unstructured thinking happens, long brainstorms, meeting notes typed quickly, transcripts exported from a voice memo or call recording. All of that content is genuinely useful, but rereading it in full every time to recall one detail is slow.
Asking directly what was decided, what a specific point was, or when something happened skips the rereading entirely. The answer comes back the same way it would from asking someone who was actually there and remembers the detail.
This matters especially for long transcripts, which are often captured in full precisely because nobody knows in the moment which parts will matter later. Chat lets that detail exist without needing to be manually reprocessed every time it is needed.
