Reference

How curation works

The queue memex keeps, the curation instructions, the record of every pass, flags, and how a pass is started.

Most people never need this page. Notes go stale, tags drift, links break; memex finds that, keeps a queue of it, keeps the instructions a curating assistant should follow, and keeps a record of every pass. It never runs one. Curation happens when you ask one of your assistants for it.

The queue

Every note is checked for defects: no tags, no description, not yet searchable by meaning, no links either way, links that lead nowhere, tag names to tidy, a title that looks like a filename, and anything you flagged.

The queue ranks them: flagged first, then the most defective, then notes whose neighbours changed, then notes no pass has read, then the longest unseen. A note that comes through a pass clean earns a rest that doubles each time, so a settled knowledge base produces a short queue.

The instructions

The memex-curation skill: who may do what, what to hunt and in what order, how to close a pass. Every assistant loads the same text; what differs is the role.

The record

Activity › Curation shows one row per pass: what was read, what was applied, what was filed for you, and whether the assistant’s own account of the pass matches what memex logged. Open a pass and it lists the notes it changed and the notes it read, each linked. Rows waiting on you link to the inbox.

Flags

On any note, Flag for curation with a comment saying what is wrong and what you want done. The next pass starts there. A curator closes the flag by saying what it did, and disagreeing with you is a valid answer.

Asking for a pass

Settings › Assistants › Note maintenance › Choose a curator promotes a connection; below it, Start a maintenance pass provides a message to copy into a chat with that assistant or into a scheduled task: load the memex-curation skill and follow it, noting the start time. The section links to scheduled tasks in ChatGPT and in Claude, because a pass works best on a schedule the assistant runs. Last run shows when each curator last loaded the instructions.

An agent-role connection can run the same pass; everything it does is held for you, and it cannot write the run record.

After a pass, the assistant reports to you in the chat you started it from. memex reports nothing on its own.