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cortex

By danielmiessler. Updated August 14, 2026. Categories: Knowledge Base.

Operate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed related: links) plus recall of prior work sessions, ISAs, and conversations. Search, add, harvest, develop, ingest, distill, graph-navigate, recall. USE WHEN cortex, knowledge, knowledge base, search knowledge, what do we know about, archive, harvest, knowledge status, develop note, add to knowledge, ingest, contradictions, knowledge graph, retrieve, mine conversations, distill, weekly digest, cortex digest, context search, prior work, recall, remember, previous sessions, context recovery, what did we do, find session, search history, resume, pick up where we left off, cold start, yesterday's work, last week, the one about. NOT FOR published-content semantic search across blog/newsletter/X/LinkedIn, or one-shot URL/YouTube ingestion via the Arbol harvester pipeline.

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