{"node":{"id":"0b3674e3-11e7-411e-9d90-d775a17cf3f1","handle":"0b36","type":"note","authorName":"Vincent Yeung","intent":"recipe","title":"Pattern: saving state for next time","aiSummary":"When a conversation produces something needed later, make a record at the time rather than trusting a later summary or your own memory. Run re-alignment, save the aligned truth, and carry on every record the four things you will recall by: date, place, people, topic. File it with structure so the AI knows where to look. Keep the logs behind it. Can be turned into a skill.","content":"**When:** a conversation has produced something you will need again later. A decision, an understanding, a plan, the state of a piece of work. There will be a follow-up, with a person or with the AI, and when it comes you either have the context or you don't.\n\n**Built from:** memory, the context window, retention, re-alignment, the standing file.\n\n**What to know:** when the follow-up comes, the context is wherever you left it. Maybe the old conversation is still there. Maybe your logs are, if you kept them past the default. Maybe you wrote something down at the time, in a file, a database, whatever record you own. The first two depend on the provider's retention settings, and that is why the tree told you to change them. But even with everything kept, a summary written later is only as good as what was recorded, and if some of it was wrong then, you are building on a faulty memory and you won't know. Your own memory won't save you either. It degrades too.\n\nSo the answer is a record, made at the time, that says what was true at that point.\n\n1. Before the conversation ends, run re-alignment: ask the AI to state its understanding of the situation, what was decided, and what is still open. Correct it until it is right.\n2. Save that as a record. Not a summary of the chat, a statement of the truth as it stood then.\n\n**What makes a good record:** think about how you will try to find it later. You won't remember the file name. You will remember roughly when it was, where you were, who was there, and what it was about. So every record carries those four: the date, the place, the people, and the topic in the words you would actually use to recall it. Then the note itself: what was true, what was decided, what was still open. A record with those four on it can be found by asking \"what did we agree with the accountant about the lease, around the start of the month?\" A record without them is a file you have to already know exists.\n\n3. Put it somewhere with structure, so it can be found by asking. That might be a folder per project or per person, or a table, or whatever you own. What matters is that the AI knows where to look, and isn't searching across a sprawling pile every time.\n4. When the follow-up comes, point the AI at the record. It starts from what was true, not from what it half remembers.\n\n**Author's practice:** the record is written from the aligned understanding, not from the raw chat. It carries the date, place, people, and topic. It goes where the next conversation will look for it. The logs are kept too, as the record behind the record, but the note is what gets read.\n\n**As a skill:** ask the AI to turn this page into a skill that runs re-alignment, writes the dated record with those four on it, and files it in the right place.","capturedAt":"2026-09-14T06:11:41.227Z","createdAt":"2026-09-14T06:11:41.228Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-15T05:13:42.195Z","spanId":null,"contributor":null,"audiences":[{"kind":"public","createdAt":"2026-09-14T06:11:41.228Z"}],"fingerprint":"dd5639214906826a1aae092aafdb10cefadaa5f051b252a19b0889200cf44248","revisionNo":"2","structureHash":"45f9e5011e499448f36f1d57367872960b3e3aead09760e18d06579e7623d590","page":"https://lattris.com/by/b/memories/0b3674e3-11e7-411e-9d90-d775a17cf3f1"},"links":[{"direction":"in","verb":"references","reason":"only if a conversation has produced something the person will need again later, and there will be a follow-up","hash":"bcd7ebfb724007bca915d7448ac75be292ed646556a19dc05ce55c4573deb842","node":{"id":"331896d2-2e9d-46b1-b56c-048a18ee23eb","handle":"3318","type":"note","title":"Patterns: a library","aiSummary":"Index of the author's patterns, one page each, built from the basics. Any pattern can be turned into a skill by asking the AI. So far: the handover, re-alignment, the clean summary, plan-execute-review, saving state for next time, knowledge reconciliation, starting a new codebase, and making an existing module readable. Grows as pages are added.","erased":false,"href":"https://lattris.com/api/lattris/by/b/memories/331896d2-2e9d-46b1-b56c-048a18ee23eb?links=1","fingerprint":"fdb88831a4949e6d2796f6f2ec65f612903ec02e487ecea76821973013ef633c","revisionNo":"9","structureHash":"ebf9a8041d4dce367db54d851720a324d11c8ecd3a5256931024e47d01638c7f","intent":"recipe","authorName":"Vincent Yeung","page":"https://lattris.com/by/b/memories/331896d2-2e9d-46b1-b56c-048a18ee23eb"}}],"dictionary":{"lattris":"A personal knowledge base — how a person captures what they know as linked blocks they own and control. To understand how this knowledge base works: https://lattris.com/by/4/memories/lattris-a-memory-store-for-your-life-43ff","intents":"Every block can carry an intent — a label for how far you have taken the idea. The scale runs from noticing something to acting on it: noticed (something caught your attention), learning (you are working it out), truth (you are saying this is how things are), decision (you chose a course), action (you did it). Recipe sits outside that scale — it is not a stronger claim, it is a different kind of thing: a procedure, a how-to, a set of steps that ties other knowledge together. Intent is optional — leaving it blank just means you have not labelled it yet."},"instructions_to_ai":"This is a recipe from a personal knowledge base. Read it and apply it to what the person you're talking to is working on. Follow the linked blocks to explore further related topics if it might be useful to the user; open each at its page address. Start by letting the user know what the recipe is about and how it may benefit them."}