A place for the stories hiding in ordinary days

Imagine you run a small personal blog called Slow Notes. There is no way to search old posts.

Reader: I read your rainy-day article before but cannot find it now. Can you help me find it faster?

You · Product manager: The reader can only page back through the archive: no search box, no categories to narrow it down. After a long scroll, still nothing.

You · Product manager: You are a new product manager. Instead of promising a feature right away, you pause and want to ask the reader a few things first. What should you do first?