docs: evaluations instructions and readme refactoring

docs/features.md

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# Features
+
+## Search vs Chat
+
+**Search** — Use when you know what you're looking for. Full-text search matches query terms across your content.
+
+**Chat** — Use when exploring concepts or reasoning about your knowledge. The AI analyzes your query and retrieves relevant context from your entire knowledge base.
+
+## Content Processing
+
+Minne automatically processes saved content:
+
+1. **Web scraping** extracts readable text from URLs (via headless Chrome)
+2. **Text analysis** identifies key concepts and relationships
+3. **Graph creation** builds connections between related content
+4. **Embedding generation** enables semantic search
+
+## Knowledge Graph
+
+Explore your knowledge as an interactive network:
+
+- **Manual curation** — Create entities and relationships yourself
+- **AI automation** — Let AI extract entities and discover relationships
+- **Hybrid approach** — AI suggests connections for your approval
+
+The D3-based graph visualization shows entities as nodes and relationships as edges.
+
+## Hybrid Retrieval
+
+Minne combines multiple retrieval strategies:
+
+- **Vector similarity** — Semantic matching via embeddings
+- **Full-text search** — Keyword matching with BM25
+- **Graph traversal** — Following relationships between entities
+
+Results are merged using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) for optimal relevance.
+
+## Reranking (Optional)
+
+When enabled, retrieval results are rescored with a cross-encoder model for improved relevance. Powered by [fastembed-rs](https://github.com/Anush008/fastembed-rs).
+
+**Trade-offs:**
+- Downloads ~1.1 GB of model data
+- Adds latency per query
+- Potentially improves answer quality, see [blog post](https://blog.stark.pub/posts/eval-retrieval-refactor/)
+
+Enable via `RERANKING_ENABLED=true`. See [Configuration](./configuration.md).
+
+## Multi-Format Ingestion
+
+Supported content types:
+- Plain text and notes
+- URLs (web pages)
+- PDF documents
+- Audio files
+- Images
+
+## Scratchpad
+
+Quickly capture content without committing to permanent storage. Convert to full content when ready.
+
+## iOS Shortcut
+
+Use the [Minne iOS Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e433fbd7602f4e2eaa70dca162323477) for quick content capture from your phone.