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Morning briefing and evening journal

Two moments of the day come at an hour you choose. In the morning the orb reads your day aloud. In the evening a card proposes a journal of the day, and you decide whether it enters a vault.

Both are off by default. Both are set in Settings › Notifications. Both run only while the app is open: a day when the app was closed is never caught up.

The morning briefing​

  1. Turn it on

    Settings › Notifications, card Morning briefing. Switch on Give the briefing every day. The proposed time is 08:00.

  2. Pick the time

    Change Time if you want. When you pick an hour already past today, the first briefing comes tomorrow.

  3. Listen

    At that hour a card titled Briefing for today's date lands on the board, and the orb reads it aloud with the voice of Settings › Voice.

What the briefing says, each part under its source:

  • Agenda: today's appointments not yet over, with the names of the participants. Addresses are never read.
  • To-do: open tasks due today, late ones marked "(late)".
  • Promises: the promises falling due.
  • Cockpit: pinned agent cards that are waiting for you or blocked.
  • MnemoClima: the El Niño card, only when the cartridge already posted one.
  • Mail: the number of unread mails and the last 5 senders and subjects, when you ticked In the morning briefing in the Mail settings.

An empty part is left out. When everything is empty the card says Nothing planned today. A source the app could not read says could not be read, never "nothing". No model is called: the text is assembled by the app.

When the orb reads it​

  • On time, it speaks. If the app sees the briefing more than 15 minutes late, for example when you open the app at 11:00, the card comes alone with Listen and the status Offered: press Listen.
  • A conversation comes first. While you talk to the orb, the card says Read after the current conversation.
  • Without a voice, the card says No voice available: the card only.

The card has two buttons, Listen and Details. Pressing Listen counts as read. One card per day: yesterday's card leaves when today's arrives.

Do not disturb​

The same page has Do not disturb during an appointment: Appointments with participants or a video link, All appointments or Never. During the appointment, the app's sounds are off and the orb speaks only when asked.

The briefing on Telegram​

The text can also go to Telegram, through the MnemoHermes gateway. It takes two gestures, because the text holds appointments, names, tasks and promises.

  1. Tick The briefing's text may go to Telegram. The date of your consent is kept.
  2. Switch on Also send the text to Telegram.

The app never starts the gateway for this. When the gateway is not running, the card says Telegram: the MnemoHermes gateway is not running.

A cloud voice hears the briefing

If Settings › Voice uses ElevenLabs, the text read aloud, names included, goes to ElevenLabs. That is your choice of voice; the briefing does not change it.

The evening journal​

  1. Turn it on

    Settings › Notifications, card Evening journal. Switch on Propose the journal every evening. The proposed time is 21:00.

  2. Read the card

    At that hour a card titled Journal of today's date sums up the day. The orb does not speak, and nothing is written yet.

  3. Open the editor

    Press Read and write. The proposal is in an editable text field.

  4. Write it into a vault

    Choose a vault, then press Write. The card then says Written in the vault's name, with the time.

What the proposal holds:

  • Agenda: the appointments that started today, with participants by name.
  • To-do: the tasks ticked today.
  • Promises: those made today and those kept today.
  • Recordings: today's recordings by title, with the first line of their note.
  • Agents: cockpit cards marked done today.

An empty day reads A day with no trace in Mnemosyne.

In the editor​

  • Write with the model rewrites the text in one call, with memory off. The estimate is shown before you press it: one call, the characters and the tokens. If the answer hits the model's ceiling, the editor says the text may be cut and lets you choose Use this text or Keep mine.
  • Your edits are kept as a draft of the day on this machine, never as a memory. Start from the proposal erases the draft.
  • No vault is preselected. Sandbox vaults are never offered. A vault with maximum protection is offered with "(protected)" after its name.
  • Closing the editor writes nothing.

Write puts a file named journal- plus the date, in Markdown, in the watched folder of the vault you chose. Writing that file is what makes the vault ingest it. A name already taken gets a suffix; nothing is overwritten.

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