Search by feeling
Not by exact words — by how it felt. Search «when I was angry at my dad» and the app understands, even if you didn't write those words.
The problem
After six months of using the app you have 80 anecdotes. After two years, 300. Exact-word search doesn't cut it — the anecdote about the fight with your dad maybe never used the word "fight." It said "I didn't speak to him for three weeks." But you search the way you think, not the way you wrote.
What Anecdotario does
Search works by meaning, not text matching. Try:
- "when I felt proud of my mom" → finds anecdotes where your mom did something, even if the word "proud" doesn't appear.
- "trips on a tight budget" → finds travel anecdotes with details of cheap hostels, supermarket meals, big backpacks.
- "first time I..." → finds first times of anything (kisses, driving, seeing the sea).
It works because each anecdote has a semantic embedding — a numerical representation of what it means, not what words it uses. Search compares meanings.
Additional filters
You combine free-form search with structured filters:
- By person — everything your sister appears in
- By chapter — only in "adolescence"
- By tone — happy / hard / funny
- By date — from 2018 to 2020
- By place — everything that happened in Buenos Aires
Why it matters
Your corpus is useless if you can't find your way back to it. And as it grows, the only thing that scales is search by meaning. Anecdotario lets you reunite with your story as if you had a librarian who read all of it and understands what you're asking for.