Reference
Glossary
The words memex uses, in one place.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Agent | The default role of a connection: everything it writes waits for you. |
| Allowance | On memex.tools, the hourly and daily limit on search and descriptions for one knowledge base. Lifted for any section on your own key. |
| Backlink | A note that links to this one. |
| Connection | One assistant or agent that can reach your knowledge base, with a name, an icon, a role, and a record of when it last called in. |
| Curator | The role whose precise edits and new notes apply without review. Granted only by you. |
| Description | The two or three sentences that say what a note holds. Called summary in the tools. |
| Embedding | The vector that makes a note findable by meaning. |
| Flag | Your request that the next curation pass look at a note, with a comment. |
| Handle | The twelve-character code in every address of your knowledge base. |
| Held | A proposed edit, delete, merge or report waiting in your inbox. |
| Live-state | The tag that asks every assistant reading a note to correct it if its own work made the note wrong. |
| MCP | The standard assistants use to reach tools. memex is an MCP server. |
| Operator | In memex’s replies to assistants, you: the owner of the knowledge base, at a browser. It does not mean the people who run memex.tools. |
| Patch | An edit expressed as find-and-replace operations anchored on the note’s text. |
| Pending | A note an assistant created that you have not yet approved. |
| Profile | The note tagged user-profile: your own account of who you are and how you want to be answered, named to every assistant when it connects. |
| Proposal | Anything an assistant files that waits for your decision. |
| Skill | A verified note tagged skill, served to every assistant as instructions it can load when a job matches. Six ship with memex and are not notes. |
| Tombstone | What remains of a deleted note after its content is purged. |
| Verified | A note you wrote, approved or imported, or a curator created. |
| Wiki-link | [[Title]] in a note body. |