Automations
Nightly memory journal automation
Before midnight: the day's decisions and threads distilled into your agent's memory.
Last reviewed July 17, 2026
A cron automation recipe that reviews the day's notes and chats each night and distills durable facts and open threads into agent memory and a journal file.
Schedule: Every night at 23:55
55 23 * * *Automation instructions
Review today's files in /Journal/inbox (I drop raw notes, decisions, and snippets there during the day). Distill into two outputs. (1) Append to /Journal/YYYY-MM.md under today's date: decisions made (with the reasoning in one line each), threads opened or closed, and things promised to people. (2) Save to memory only the durable facts: standing decisions, preferences discovered, commitments with dates; never transient details. Then empty /Journal/inbox by moving processed files to /Journal/processed. If the inbox is empty, write the one-line no-entries note and stop; do not synthesize a day from nothing.
Set it up
- 1
Adopt the inbox habit
During the day, drop fragments into /Journal/inbox: a decision, a half-thought, a promise made. No formatting needed.
- 2
Copy the instructions
The two-output split matters: the journal is your record; memory is only what future conversations should know.
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Create the automation
23:55 daily; the monthly journal file stays scannable and the agent's memory compounds.