Proposals

The Proposals page is the curator’s in-tray to you. The curator handles routine filing automatically, but anything that would destroy or restructure a memory — archiving it, splitting it, or any change to a memory marked as needing approval — is held back here for a human to decide. This is the page you will visit most.

What you’ll see

Each proposal is a card describing one change the curator wants to make. A card shows:

• a badge naming the action — Update, Replace, Merge, Split, or New;
• a source chip saying whether it came from intake (filing a new submission) or grooming (tidying the existing collection);
• the curator’s reasoning for the change; and
• the before and after — for a simple edit, the old text, a diff, and the new text side by side; for a merge, the several sources and the merged result; for a split, the original and its replacements.

The main task

Each card has two buttons:

• Approve — the label spells out the consequence, so you always know what you are agreeing to (Approve — replaces 1 memory, Approve — merges 3 memories, and so on).
• Reject — discards the suggestion and leaves things as they were.

For a split that produces several new memories, an Archive original button appears below the replacements so you can retire the source in one click once you are happy with the pieces.

When the queue is empty it simply says No proposals pending — that is the goal state.

For a step-by-step walkthrough of how to judge a proposal, see Reviewing & accepting proposals.