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How Self-Organize works
Discover new Currents in the memories you’ve saved.
Discover a thread you haven't named
You might save a conversation about cooking, a meal you enjoyed, and an idea for a dinner with friends. Together, they could reveal an interest you hadn't thought to organize.
Self-Organize looks across your saved Memories for groups that are about the same thing, and suggests new Currents built from them. Nothing is created until you save a suggestion.
Start a run
Where Self-Organize is available, open it under Tools. Choose which Memories it looks at — All my Memories, or Only Memories not in a Current yet — then choose Run now.
Self-Organize doesn't suggest a Current you already have, and that includes the ones you've archived. If you archived a Current to see how it could be organized again, check Suggest Currents like the ones I've archived before you run: that run counts only your active Currents as ones you have. The box starts unchecked every time you open the page.
A run needs at least 10 Memories to look at, and there's a limit to how many it can look at at once. If your choice falls outside those, the page explains why the run can't start; the other choice may work.
A run can take several minutes, and you can leave the page and come back. Recent runs shows each run's status, which Memories it looked at, and how many suggestions it offered and you saved. A completed run may find nothing new; that's a normal result. After a successful run, wait 24 hours before starting another. The page shows when you can run again.
Self-Organize is developing during alpha and may be unavailable in your installation.
Read the suggestions
Each suggestion shows a name, a description and how many Memories it would hold. Its strength, from 0 to 10, is how good a Current it would make on its own. The strongest suggestions come first. To see a few of its Memories, point to or select the info icon beside its Memory count.
Some suggestions hold slices: smaller, closely related suggestions inside a larger one. Each slice shows its name, its own strength, how well it fits the larger suggestion (0 to 10), and how many Memories it holds. Open a slice to read its description.
Two sliders choose what you see. Strength starts at 6 and hides weaker suggestions; 6 to 7 is a good range. Slice fit starts at 5 and decides which slices belong to a larger suggestion; 5 to 7 is a good range. A slice that doesn't fit well enough is shown as a suggestion of its own instead, when it's strong enough.
Self-Organize doesn't suggest what you already have. A group of Memories that's mostly in one of your Currents is left out, and nothing is added to the Currents you already have.
Decide each suggestion
Each suggestion gets its own answer, and each answer takes effect right away.
- Save creates one Current from the suggestion's Memories and those of the slices it includes. Self-Organize asks first. Where Find older memories is available, choose Save and find older memories to also start it on the new Current, which looks through the rest of your Memories for ones about the same subject. A suggestion holds only the Memories most alike each other, so this usually adds more. Choose Save as is to save only what's shown, or Cancel. Before saving, you can Remove a slice to leave it out of the save; Restore puts it back. A slice you leave out is still a suggestion, and once the larger one is decided you can save it as its own Current. You can also save a slice as its own Current instead of including it.
- Not now sets the suggestion aside for 14 days. After that, it comes back only if it holds a Memory it didn't hold before.
- Not ever stops the suggestion for good.
Both also apply to anything later that's mostly the same Memories, or about the same subject. Choosing Not now or Not ever creates nothing, and the Memories involved stay as they were.
Choose Undo to take back Not now or Not ever, until you start your next run. A save can't be undone, but the new Current is an ordinary Current: you can archive it like any other.
You don't have to answer everything. Suggestions you leave undecided are cleared when you start your next run; the ones you saved or declined stay decided.
Return to the connections
Open a saved Current to explore its Memories. If you no longer want the grouping in active use, choose Archive from its card's Tools, or at the top of its page, and confirm. The Current is set aside, while its Memories keep their own states and history. Self-Organize still won't suggest what an archived Current already holds, unless you check Suggest Currents like the ones I've archived for a run.
On the Currents page, choose Archived or All under Show to find it again. Choose Unarchive and confirm to return the same Current to active use. It doesn't start a new run or change any suggestions you've declined.
To find older Memories for a Current you've already named, use Find older memories on the Currents page. That search fills in an existing thread; Self-Organize can discover a new one. Currents explains how the search works.