The phrase "a simple detail" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a minor or straightforward piece of information or fact that is easy to understand or remember.
Example: "In the report, I noticed a simple detail that could improve the overall clarity of the document."
Alternatives: "a minor point" or "a basic fact".
Foote can nail the reality of place with a simple detail: paper flowers in a mason jar at a black cemetery.
A simple detail in the lower part of the front wall, a subtly jutting base, gives it a kind of grace, and saves it from banality.
I easily get euphoric or down on myself, caused by what can be a matter of a simple detail that I've (sometimes wrongly) read into.
This alone was a dramatic affair, so we did prepare them with some simple detail before the event, and – you know what?
No simple detail for extended bundled bars was proposed in this study.
The worst part is that one simple detail could help avoid potentially fatal mistakes -- the mother's name.
The book's title would seem to hint at the occasional navel-gazing within, but it's actually a reference to a love letter to Maggie from David, written in a simple code, detailing everything he likes about her. (I did not bother to decode the message, but a helpful blogger did).
For developing a simple reinforcement details for coupling beams and improving their seismic behavior, several studies have been also carried out using fiber reinforced coupling beams (Canbolat et al. 2005; Lequesne et al. 2010).
This is a simple manuscript detailing a straightforward analysis of the data contained in a back-to-back submission by Beiles and colleagues.
Their fury contrasts sharply with the bedroom's simple details: an old dresser, atop which sits a bracelet, a pale pink perfume bottle and a maroon hair bow.
It was based on two remarkably simple details: a brushed-back hairstyle she could manage at home and a pair of cobalt-blue tinted eyeglasses she could wear day or night, and in lieu of dangling earrings.
