Why Text File Summaries Save Real Time
Plain text files are often where unstructured thinking happens, long brainstorms, meeting notes typed quickly without formatting, transcripts exported from a voice memo or a call recording. All of that content is genuinely useful, but rereading it in full every time you need to recall something is slow.
A summary condenses this down to what actually matters, the decisions made, the ideas worth acting on, the key facts recorded, without requiring a full reread every time the note is revisited.
This matters especially for transcripts and long meeting notes, which are frequently captured in full detail precisely because nobody knows in the moment which parts will matter later. A summary lets that detail exist without needing to be reprocessed manually each time.
