Notebook
When enabled, the Notebook follows the day and creates searchable moments. It is visible in Today and never pretends to be active when the audio session is interrupted.
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Mechanism, not magic
One stream. Different ways to keep it.
Mnemo separates the posture of listening from the act of keeping a conversation. That distinction is what makes Notebook useful without making Session confusing.
The short answer
Capture the day. Keep what matters.
Notebook is a state. Session is an act. They can share one capture stream.
01 / The two postures
Not five modes.
Ambient listening is not another item in a picker. It is the Notebook state that can be on or off. Sessions stay deliberate: Meeting, Interview, Quick note or Dictation.
state / Today
Session
A Session has a deliberate start and finish. It gives a moment explicit boundaries and applies the treatment appropriate to a meeting, interview, quick note or dictation.
Promotion
If Notebook is already listening, starting a Session promotes the relevant span. It does not start a second recording and duplicate the words.
02 / The pipeline
Words before inference.
- Capture
- The audio is written durably first.Recording has priority over later inference. A failed processing stage must not delete or invalidate the audio.
- Transcribe
- Raw transcript stays raw.Cleaned text is a separate correction layer. It never silently replaces the original words.
- Structure
- People, decisions and commitments become searchable objects.Derived memory objects retain source references so you can inspect where they came from.
- Ask
- A question resolves against the library.The useful answer is the one that can take you back to a source segment, not a floating summary.
03 / Source as interface
Every useful answer has somewhere to go.
The source reference carries the date, time and transcript position. When the audio has been retained, it can open playback at the cited moment. When it has expired, Mnemo says so.
Answer
Decision: ship the revised flow before Thursday’s review.
Source
“I’ll send the revised flow before lunch. Then we can review it Thursday.”
00:18:42 · Speaker A · Play sourceIllustration of the source layout, not a screen capture.
04 / A direct answer
How does Mnemo remember? It keeps a searchable transcript and derived memory objects tied to source references. Ask retrieves from that library. A citation returns you to the transcript segment and, when the audio is still retained, the corresponding playback position.
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