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Show HN: Memento – Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your email

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by georgeck

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The day this story was posted on Show HN, I didn’t want to be glued to the screen, waiting for new comments. So, I asked Gemini to write a script that listens for new comments on Firebase. I already had Pushover [1], so I connected the script to send notifications to my mobile device. I ran the script and forgot about it. Today, I woke up to multiple notifications. I believe this script could be useful for other HN users as well, so I converted it into a project and posted it to GitHub [2].
This is unrelated to Memento.
[1] https://pushover.net/
[2] https://github.com/latentsignal-org/hn-comment-watcher

by lifesucks1

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I built a vibe coded version for my personal use. This helped me track projects and other things going on in my small business. Memento gives me a different look with a lot more features to it.

by linggen

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the hard part probably isn't search over 500k emails, it's keeping the generated wiki from becoming a second messy inbox. i'd want to see how it handles stale facts and conflicting versions of the same project. email has a lot of "this was true for two weeks in 2019" buried inside it.

by annjose

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Co-author here. Happy to take any questions.
We built Memento for two reasons - we were frustrated by the search in Gmail, and we wanted to organize email locally in a privacy-friendly way. But the outcome was much more than that - we learned how to build agents from scratch, optimize agentic search, and discovered many beautiful memories we didn’t know were hidden in our email.
We would love to know what you think of this project. All feedback is welcome.

by georgeck

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Wanted to call out that the demo of the Enron dataset [1] is based on a private fork of Memento. Since the archive contains multiple inboxes, we had to make Memento pick one of the users as the central user. These changes are not in the main repo as it is not a regular use case.
[1] https://memento-demo.latentsignal.org

by abeymm

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Looks like for Memento to work, you need to setup Msgvault. It would be good to add those instruction to README.

by codelong888

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by reactance0083

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