# Recipes (/en/docs/memo/recipes)

This page gives you whole tasks to hand to your AI agent once Memo has your notes, mail or messages.
Copy a request into your agent and change the names and topics to yours. Each one ends with
something you can check: sources you can open, or a list waiting for your decision. None of them
sends a message or changes your files.

## Prepare for a meeting with someone [#prepare-for-a-meeting-with-someone]

> ```text prompt
> Use memo CLI to prepare me for a meeting with Kai Sample tomorrow.
> Show our recent messages and mail, my notes about Kai and the open tasks between us.
> Give me three points to raise, each with its source.
> ```

Your agent runs `memo context` for the person and reads the sources. Check the points against the
sources it shows. If a part is empty, the chats may not be downloaded or the accounts not linked
([people](/llms.mdx/docs/memo/people/content.md)).

## Find where something was decided [#find-where-something-was-decided]

> ```text prompt
> Use memo CLI to find where we decided the launch date for the Harbour project.
> Search my notes, mail and messages. Quote the text and show the source of each result.
> If you find nothing, tell me what you searched.
> ```

Your agent uses `memo search all`, then the search for one kind of source if needed. An empty answer
means only that the local store has no match ([search](/llms.mdx/docs/memo/search/content.md)).

## Turn requests into tasks [#turn-requests-into-tasks]

> ```text prompt
> Use memo CLI to find messages and emails from the last week where someone asked me to do something.
> List them with their sources. Create a task only for the ones I choose.
> ```

Your agent searches, shows you the requests, and runs `memo tasks add` for the ones you pick. See
your tasks with `memo tasks list` ([tasks](/llms.mdx/docs/memo/tasks/content.md)).

## Keep a project's notes together [#keep-a-projects-notes-together]

> ```text prompt
> Use memo CLI to find my notes, emails and messages about the Harbour project.
> Tag the ones I confirm with harbour, then show everything tagged harbour.
> ```

Afterwards `memo search all 'tag:harbour'` finds them, and a tag on a folder covers new notes too
([tags](/llms.mdx/docs/memo/tags/content.md)).

## Remember a preference, with its source [#remember-a-preference-with-its-source]

> ```text prompt
> Use memo CLI to find what Kai Sample said about meeting times.
> Show me the memory you would save and the message it is based on.
> Save it with the message as evidence only after I agree.
> ```

A memory added with the `memo` command is confirmed at once, so the request asks your agent to
show it first. Later, `memo memories stale` marks it when it no longer holds ([memories](/llms.mdx/docs/memo/memories/content.md)).

## Record a decision from a chat [#record-a-decision-from-a-chat]

> ```text prompt
> Use memo CLI to find the decision about the venue in the Harbour chat.
> Show me the decision and the message first. After I agree, record it as a decision fact
> with the message as evidence, in the Harbour project.
> ```

A fact added with the `memo` command is accepted at once, so the request asks your agent to show it
first. If it replaces an earlier decision, ask your agent to mark that with `--supersedes`.

## Weekly review [#weekly-review]

> ```text prompt
> Use memo CLI to give me a weekly review: open tasks by project, tasks that are ready to start,
> and the memories, facts and actions waiting for my review. Do not approve or confirm anything.
> ```

Your agent combines `memo tasks list`, `memo tasks ready`, and the review lists from
[Memories and facts](/llms.mdx/docs/memo/memories/content.md). Decide each item yourself.

## Write a summary into your vault [#write-a-summary-into-your-vault]

> ```text prompt
> Use memo CLI to write a short note about the Harbour project that summarises what I know,
> with the sources it is based on. Show me the note, then export it to my vault.
> ```

Your agent writes the note with `memo notes add --about project:…` and exports it with
`memo notes export` ([notes](/llms.mdx/docs/memo/notes/content.md#save-your-notes-as-files)). Memo never overwrites a file you
edited.

## Ask with sources only [#ask-with-sources-only]

> ```text prompt
> Use memo CLI to collect the sources about the Harbour budget with memo ask, using the key words
> "Harbour budget". Answer only from those sources and cite each one.
> ```

`memo ask` collects the sources; your agent answers. Memo sends nothing to an AI provider unless you
set one up and allow it ([search](/llms.mdx/docs/memo/search/content.md#give-your-agent-the-sources)).

## Run it on a schedule [#run-it-on-a-schedule]

On Linux, `memo auto on` keeps your notes and mail current. To run a recipe every morning, use your
agent's own scheduling, or a scheduler on your computer that starts your agent with the request.