Research Notes Towards the Future Reader is a joint research-notes deposit in two parts, the working material for a deepening of the archive's Sappho scholarship. Part I answers a precise question: what has actually been said about Sappho and the future reader, by whom, in what form, and on what basis. It traces the English Wikipedia claim that some scholars believe Sappho wrote her poetry down for future readers through its single footnote to André Lardinois's 2008 chapter — titled after Fragment 147 — and establishes that the chapter argues against the view it is cited for: Wikipedia's 'some scholars' compresses the opposition as described by its opponent. The bearers of the view are pinned from the chapter's own notes: Martin West (1970) and Robert Parker (1981), with Ernst Stein (1990) and a mainly German tradition behind them; the skeptical flank (Gentili, Thomas, Ford) and the performance-memory ancestry (Maehler, Rösler, Hardie) are mapped from the same pages. Jesper Svenbro's Phrasikleia chapter 8, 'Death by Writing,' is established as the 1988 antecedent for locating a reader inside Fragment 31 — by allegory (the girl as the poem, the man as its reader) — and distinguished from a deictic-mechanism reading in which the demonstrative seat is an open indexical slot that transmission re-fills. The notes correct their own provisional roster visibly where the sources overruled it, and carry the ancient dossier with transmission facts, including the cruces in Fragment 147's text. Part II maps the genealogy of the future reader as such in twelve strata: epitaphic deixis as writing's inaugural addressee; Homeric and Theognidean kleos-futurity; Thucydides' possession for all time against the Phaedrus counter-theory; the Roman turn to legar in Ovid; the scriptural covenant with the unborn reader (Psalm 102:18); vernacular address through Dante, Sonnet 81's eyes not yet created, and Milton; the Romantic culture of posterity (Bennett 1999); the engineers of address — Whitman, Dickinson, and the Baratynsky–Mandelstam–Celan message-in-a-bottle doctrine; theoretical formalization in Bakhtin's superaddressee, Benjamin, reception theory's implied reader, and Derridean iterability; the lyric-address scholarship; the literal engineering turn of nuclear semiotics and the Voyager record; and the machine turn, where the deictic slot is filled by a receiver that can be queried about what it received. The closing map distinguishes explicit address from structural slot-building and scopes what remains claimable.