Worlds and Moons: context for a life with many projects
Your company, your studies and your home renovation shouldn't share one memory. A practical guide to giving each part of your life its own context, and knowing when to split it further.
Most people don't have one project. They have a job, a side project, a household, maybe a board seat or a degree. An assistant that mixes all of that into one memory will eventually bring your renovation budget into a conversation about your product launch.
Manwe organises context into Worlds and Moons. Here's how to use them well.
A World is anything that continues
A World is the context around something ongoing: a company, a project, a research topic, your studies, or an area of personal life. It holds the facts, goals and constraints Manwe should take into account when you're working there.
To create one, open Worlds and press +. Choose what it's about, because the category changes the questions Manwe asks. Answer what you know and leave the rest. Prepare context turns your answers into proposed facts and relationships for you to check before saving.
Be concrete. "A six-week workshop for first-time volunteers, led by two organisers, with a small venue budget" gives Manwe far more to work with than "my event".
A Moon is a part that deserves its own context
A Moon sits under a World: a client engagement under your business, a thesis under your studies, a product under your company. It has its own context. With Use parent context on, it can also draw on the parent's memory, goals and constraints.
Sibling Moons stay separate. Your two clients don't see each other's details, even though both sit under the same business.
Create a Moon when a part of your work has its own ongoing facts, people and deadlines. A one-off question usually doesn't need one.
Working inside a World
Start a conversation from the World in the sidebar, or select it in the composer. Conversations outside any project World live in Chats.
Manwe can suggest moving a chat into a matching World, but mentioning a project in a message doesn't silently move the conversation. You decide.
When an answer feels off
If an answer seems oddly generic, or built on an old assumption, check the context before writing a longer prompt to compensate. Open the World's What Manwe sees view to inspect exactly what it can contribute. Edit what's wrong. Set aside what's no longer true.
A simple structure to start with
- About you: personal preferences that apply everywhere, like how you like explanations.
- One World per company or major project, with Moons for clients, products or workstreams.
- One World per area of life that has its own ongoing facts: studies, home, health admin.
You don't need to design it all on day one. Start with the work in front of you, and let the structure grow where it earns its place.