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Daily summary

The daily summary is a one-paragraph recap of what happened in your Moonjar on a given day. New captures, key conversations, reminders due, anything notable. It’s used as the daily-note view’s empty-state and you can ask the chat for it explicitly.

When a daily summary is requested for a date, Moonjar:

  1. Loads the daily payload for that date — every document captured, every conversation that happened, every reminder due.
  2. Pulls a short excerpt of each document (about 400 characters).
  3. Hands the bundle to a small Claude model (Claude Haiku 4.5) and asks it to write a 90-word-or-less paragraph.
  4. Caches the result for an hour, so re-asks the same day don’t re-run the model.

The summary is short on purpose. It’s meant to be skimmable in two to three seconds.

  • What you captured — webpages, photos, emails, files, scans.
  • Key conversations — what you and the assistant talked about.
  • Reminders due — items you needed to handle.
  • Notable patterns — when the model spots one (“third time you’ve looked up car insurance this week”).

The model picks what’s worth mentioning. Routine items aren’t called out — quiet days produce short summaries.

  • Daily-note view — open the today screen or any past date in the daily-note list; the summary is at the top.
  • Chat — ask “summarise yesterday” and the assistant calls the same flow.
  • 90-word target. Longer summaries are clipped.
  • Cached for one hour. If something changes in your library during that window — a new capture, a reply — the cached summary doesn’t update until it expires.
  • If you have nothing in the library for that date, the summary is honest about it (not invented filler).
  • Daily briefing — today’s reminders
    • weather + insights, distinct from this. Briefing is forward-looking; daily summary is backward-looking.
  • Proactive insights