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How filing works.

Ramble files a memo with fixed rules that run in your browser. There is no AI service and no network call. The same text and the same projects always give the same result.

Cleaning the text

Ramble normalises quotes and spacing, splits the text into sentences even when speech-to-text left out punctuation, and removes fillers such as "um" and "you know".

Highlights

Ramble scores each sentence by how much it shares with the others (the TextRank method) and keeps the best two to four, skipping near-duplicates. They stay in the order you said them.

To-dos, ideas, decisions and questions

Ramble looks for phrases that signal each kind.

  • To-do: "I need to", "I have to", "I should", "I'm going to", "remind me to", "make sure", "don't forget to".
  • Decision: "we decided", "the decision is", "we're going with", "sticking with", "final answer", "settled on".
  • Question: "should we", "how do we", "I wonder", "not sure whether", "open question", "figure out how".
  • Idea: "what if", "an idea is", "we could build", "it would be cool if", "imagine if".

Ramble skips a cue that is negated or hypothetical ("I don't need to", "if we decided"). It splits run-on speech into clauses and rewrites to-dos as commands: "I need to email Priya" becomes "Email Priya". It keeps at most 12 items of each kind per memo. When cues in one sentence overlap, a decision wins over a to-do, then a question, then an idea.

Items Ramble creates are marked automatic. If you add or edit an item, it becomes yours. Re-organizing replaces only the automatic ones.

Title and topics

Ramble picks candidate phrases (the RAKE method), scores them against your other memos (TF-IDF) and prefers topics you already use. The title is three to eight words in sentence case, taken from the most telling sentence or phrase.

Projects

A memo is filed under a project when the project's name or one of its keywords appears in it as a whole word, ignoring case. Archived projects are ignored. An item links to a project when the match is in the same sentence.

When it gets it wrong

Edit or delete any item, add your own, or choose Re-organize in the memo actions menu to run the filing again. Rules are not perfect: they read cues, not meaning.