diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 247d3bd..af82761 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ models/
 
 # Vector stores (large, rebuild with build scripts)
 store/
-storage_clippings/
+clippings_search/store_clippings/
 
 # Data (symlinks to private files)
 data
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2552be2..8e4ff30 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ ssearch/
 ├── run_query.sh                # Interactive shell wrapper with timing and logging
 ├── clippings_search/
 │   ├── build_clippings.py      # Build/update clippings vector store (ChromaDB)
-│   └── retrieve_clippings.py   # Verbatim clippings chunk retrieval
+│   ├── retrieve_clippings.py   # Verbatim clippings chunk retrieval
+│   └── store_clippings/        # Persisted clippings vector store (ChromaDB)
 ├── data/                       # Symlink to journal .txt files
 ├── clippings/                  # Symlink to clippings (PDFs, TXT, webarchive, RTF)
 ├── store/                      # Persisted journal vector store
-├── storage_clippings/          # Persisted clippings vector store (ChromaDB)
 ├── models/                     # Cached HuggingFace models (offline)
 ├── archived/                   # Superseded script versions
 ├── saved_output/               # Saved query results and model comparisons
diff --git a/clippings_search/build_clippings.py b/clippings_search/build_clippings.py
index b808e92..a12c869 100644
--- a/clippings_search/build_clippings.py
+++ b/clippings_search/build_clippings.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ import time
 
 # Shared constants
 DATA_DIR = Path("./clippings")
-PERSIST_DIR = "./storage_clippings"
+PERSIST_DIR = "./clippings_search/store_clippings"
 COLLECTION_NAME = "clippings"
 EMBED_MODEL_NAME = "BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5"
 CHUNK_SIZE = 256
diff --git a/clippings_search/retrieve_clippings.py b/clippings_search/retrieve_clippings.py
index 2cb0c9e..a96995c 100644
--- a/clippings_search/retrieve_clippings.py
+++ b/clippings_search/retrieve_clippings.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import textwrap
 # Globals
 #
 
-PERSIST_DIR = "./storage_clippings"
+PERSIST_DIR = "./clippings_search/store_clippings"
 COLLECTION_NAME = "clippings"
 
 # Embedding model (must match build_clippings.py)