These are the notes behind the research essays, and they live in plain files on one disk because that is where research belongs until it is ready to be a page.
What a source owes the writer
A source owes the writer a claim, a date, and a page. Everything else is decoration. If a note cannot be traced back to a line in a book, it is not a note, it is a feeling, and feelings do not get cited in a bibliography.
The house style for a note is four lines: the claim in our own words, the source, the page, and the thing that surprised us. The fourth line is the one that matters, because surprise is where the next paragraph comes from.
On keeping the web local
The research web on this machine is a folder of text files and a small index. There is no service, no account, and no monthly bill, which means there is no login to lose and no copy of the writing that belongs to somebody else. The search is a plain substring match over the folder, which is slow and honest and never ranks a paid paper above a free one.
The thread worth keeping
The thread that runs through these notes is the oldest one in the collection. A house decides what it is, and everything that moves into it is measured against that decision, and the measuring is not always hostile. Marla is not a horror character. She is a person who noticed a message and was slow to believe it, which is a much more common way to end badly.