Memory Shelf

Inspiration

Files often disappear into folders even when they are safely stored. I wanted to connect putting scattered files away with finding them later through memories: what they contained, roughly when I created them, or a note about posting them on X.

What it does

Memory Shelf is a proposed NAS Skill that organizes manually imported files through approved copies, preserves their provenance, and suggests candidates with explanations. Approximate dates are clues, not automatic exclusions. Originals are retained.

How we built it

I used Codex to develop an original Markdown Skill and references, grounded in Uliya Skill Kit 0.7.3. The design delegates to documented filesystem, document, photo and knowledge experts. Local structural checks and synthetic decision tests were completed; no live NAS execution has occurred.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge was separating useful ideas from verified capabilities. PC import remains manual. X links are user-provided notes, not automatically retrieved history. This draft does not implement arbitrary video-scene extraction or timecodes; platform support remains unverified.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The draft connects organization and retrieval while defining approval boundaries, copy verification, collision handling and honest partial results. Review identified and helped fix a missing approval-time hash baseline.

What we learned

Remembered dates and filesystem timestamps are different evidence. A useful assistant should explain uncertainty, preserve plausible candidates and never describe an unverified operation as successful.

What's next for Memory Shelf

Test with synthetic files on an authorized NAS, validate expert behavior and privacy settings, and compare retrieval effort with standard search. Video-content retrieval is an important gap to investigate.

Built With

• codex
• markdown