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The Library

Every key the store holds, as a tree, and a reader that shows each memory with who wrote it.

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The Library shows every key that you may read, as a tree of folders. Open a key to read the memory, its writer and its history.

Find a memory

  1. Open Library.
  2. Open a folder, or type part of a key or a title in Filter by key or title.
  3. Open a key. The reader shows the memory.

The top folders always show, each with the count of what you may read in it. A folder below them, and other/, shows only when you may read something in it. When the tree is too large to show in full, the Library says so. Search still finds every item.

The folders

FolderWhat it holds
learning/one distilled learning each: what was measured or decided, and why
idea/ideas, private to their writer by default
config/the settings of a group or the company
highlight/what the store holds on a project, and how to query it
skills/the skills of your organization, see Skills for your agent
records/the project records
vaults/each vault you imported, under its name, with its own folders
other/every other key, such as note/, at its own path

Memory keys says what each key family is for.

Where an unusual key sits

A key outside the families sits under other/ with its folders: project/mana/plan sits at other/project/mana/plan. A memory with no key sits in other/ itself. So does a key of one part only, a family name alone such as highlight, or a key with an empty part such as learning//x.

The reader

The reader shows a learning as its four lines, and a project record or a .md note of a vault as its Markdown. A .txt or .json file of a vault shows as plain text. It shows a skill with its upstream and the memories bound to it. The reader shows who wrote it, when, how many revisions it has, and whether an agent has used it.

  • One line names the revision that this one replaced, with its reason. History opens every revision.
  • Ask your assistant about this takes the key to your agent, as on Search.
  • An admin also sees Delete this memory. Your data says what a deletion does.

A link in the text opens the record that it names, when you may read that record. A link to a record that you may not read shows as its text, as a link to a record that does not exist does.

  • In a vault note, a Markdown link such as [the plan](Plan.md) or a wikilink such as [[Plan]] opens a note of the same vault, as Obsidian finds it. A link to a heading, such as [[Plan#Goals]], opens the note at that heading.
  • In a memory, a project record or a skill, a key such as learning/x or [[learning/x]] opens the record with that key. The Mana rules tell each agent to cite a record as [[key]] in what it stores.

Linked from, under the text, lists the newest 50 records with a link to this one, and counts them. It lists and counts only the records that you may read. When no record has a link to this one, it does not show.