Memory and decisions

Memory is what Breno understands from your items. Open it from the left navigation. It has five tabs: Memory, Timeline, Decisions, Graph and Review.

Memory#

The Memory tab lists records Breno holds, grouped by kind: long-term, organizational and working memory. A record that has been replaced by a newer one is kept and shown as replaced, so the history of what was believed stays readable.

Decisions#

The Decisions tab lists what was decided. Each decision shows its status (active, superseded or replaced), who made it, when, what it rested on, what else was considered, and a link to the item or meeting it came from. A newer decision does not erase the one it replaced; the older one is shown as replaced, with a link to what replaced it.

Decisions come out of your meetings. When you turn a transcript or recording into minutes in Meetings, the decisions made are listed with it. See Meeting minutes.

Review#

Breno proposes connections: relationships between people, projects and other entities, and possible duplicate entities that may be the same thing. They wait in the Review tab. Approve accepts one, Reject dismisses it, and nothing changes in your knowledge graph until you decide.

Graph#

The Graph tab shows entities and the relationships between them. Graph results are filtered to items you can read. One caveat is listed in Known limits: a shared entity’s description can still come from an item you cannot see.

Timeline#

The Timeline tab shows memory over time.

Time travel#

The graph can be read as it stood on a past date: move the date and you see the relationships that were known then. It counts relationships as of that date, so you can see what the organization knew at the time of a decision. See Memory graph and time travel.

Access#

Memory follows the same rule as everything else. You see only memory backed by items you can read, and private items stay private to their owner. See How access works.