Finding things
The reason to capture casually is that finding is easy. Kyra searches three things together and does not make you remember which one you used.
| Source | Holds |
|---|---|
| Notes | Everything you wrote in a notebook |
| Memories | Facts, decisions, preferences |
| Transcripts | Everything you and Kyra have said |
Asking
Section titled “Asking”Ask in whatever terms you actually remember. Kyra searches by meaning, so the words do not have to match.
“What did we decide about pricing?” “Find my notes on the Rotterdam trip.” “What was that article about attention I saved?” “Have I written anything about this before?” “What did I say last Tuesday about the migration?”
Time works as a filter — “last week”, “in March”, “before the launch”.
Kyra tells you where an answer came from, which matters when a note and a memory disagree. If it finds nothing, it says so rather than inventing something plausible.
Searching by hand
Section titled “Searching by hand”In a notebook, use Search or Cmd/Ctrl+K for titles and content in that notebook.
Use Kyra when you want to search everything at once, or when you do not know which
notebook it is in.
How notes connect
Section titled “How notes connect”Four kinds of connection, three of which you never have to make yourself.
Links you wrote. [[wiki-links]] between notes.
Writing them →
Backlinks. The reverse direction, maintained automatically. A note shows what points at it, so you find the note that referenced this decision without having remembered that it did.
Tags. Kyra tags notes as they land, using your notebook’s own vocabulary. Confident tags are applied silently; borderline ones are suggested; genuinely unclear ones get a question — one question, at a sensible moment, not a form.
Related notes. Notes about the same thing that were never linked. Surfaced as suggestions, never as links you did not make.
Teaching a notebook how you think
Section titled “Teaching a notebook how you think”Each notebook can hold a KYRA.md file describing what it is for, how you want it
organised, and the vocabulary you use. Kyra reads it whenever it works in that notebook,
and keeps its own working notes about the notebook in a section of the same file.
You get one by answering a handful of questions the first time Kyra notices a new kind of work. You can edit it directly at any time — it is just a note.
Worth putting in it: what the notebook is for, the tags you want used, naming conventions, and anything you keep correcting.
Nudges
Section titled “Nudges”Kyra occasionally points something out: two notes that contradict each other, an open question that has gone stale, a reference to a note that has since changed, a gap in something you said you were tracking.
At most one per notebook per day, never while you are driving or mid-dictation, and each type can be turned off. The design rule is that a nudge should feel like a colleague noticing something, not a notification badge demanding attention.
The knowledge graph
Section titled “The knowledge graph”The phone app has a graph view of your notes and the connections between them — tap a node to open a note, search to focus one, zoom out for the shape of the whole thing. Drive it by voice: “show me the graph”, “focus the launch note”, “open that one”.
Kyra also clusters the people, projects, and topics that recur across your memories and notes, and shows them on the portal’s Memory page.