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by linggen 44 days ago
the hard part probably isn't search over 500k emails, it's keeping the generated wiki from becoming a second messy inbox. i'd want to see how it handles stale facts and conflicting versions of the same project. email has a lot of "this was true for two weeks in 2019" buried inside it.
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Thanks for the note. While building the context bundle, there is a tool that detect gaps in the timeline. So when you ask 'kitchen renovation', and there are emails from 2019 and 2023, the tool flags these gaps and the LLM is made aware of it. So Memento asks which of these clusters you want to track as a project.

Later while generating the wiki, LLM handles conflicts and facts that evolved over time because it has the timestamp of the messages. So it shows that in the narrative.

Wwat we haven't implemented yet is to update the wiki when new emails arrive. That is the next one in our backlog.