Mnemo
Who Mnemo is.
A butterfly that does not stay one. At first glance there is just a green creature sitting there; at second glance you notice it is looking at you. Mnemo is our character — and the one you learn with.
He is simply there
Mnemo is not a chat window you open. He sits inside the app, turns up along your learning paths, speaks up when something is due, and otherwise waits. You talk to him like someone who knows what you are working on — because he does.
And you can really speak. On a walk, while cooking, without a screen. Cut in and he stops talking, then carries on from the same place.
He also changes. Sometimes a butterfly, sometimes drawn together into something closer to water. He has moods: curious, cheeky, sometimes sleepy. Never actually mean.
Sometimes he puts on a jacket
Tell him you want to explain something, and the roles swap: you talk, he listens and probes. He calls it Feynman mode, after the physicist who held that what impresses is not complexity but simplicity.
He walks you through five steps — narrow the topic, explain it in your own words, find the first gap, explain that part again, consolidate the whole. One task per answer. He will not hand you the answer; get stuck and you get a hint. And he checks your analogies for where they tip over — a technical term is not an explanation of itself.
That he looks different while doing it is no accident: you should see that something else is running.
Sometimes he goes quiet
In examiner mode he asks you what is due. First he settles what this is about — one topic or everything. Then he sets the task and stays silent while you think. No prodding, no hints.
Afterwards he reveals the answer, says in two sentences what held and what did not, and asks you how it went. The rating is yours, not his. And after your answer he says nothing more — no “well done”, no segue. The next thing you hear is the next question.
In this mode he can deliberately do less: create nothing, open nothing, search no web. A procedure you merely request politely does not hold.
Sometimes he reaches for the hammer
Ask him to build something and he fetches tools. Flashcards out of a conversation, core ideas out of a chapter, a lesson out of a video, a whole atlas out of a goal — chapters, stages, unlocks and the content inside them.
With an atlas he does not plan into the void: what you already know he reads from your profile and your learning record instead of asking you everything twice. You can walk the same path without him — he is the offer at every step, never the condition.
What he produces in bulk does not land in your feed unasked. It waits for review until you accept it or throw it out. He may build plenty; keeping is yours.
Sometimes the magnifying glass
When he searches, you can tell. The web, images, whatever the community has shared. He looks through your own material the same way: what is due, how a goal is going, what the last session gave you, what the video said at minute seven.
He also knows you a little. Tell him something about yourself that holds permanently and he keeps it and plan with it later. Only what you said yourself — nothing guessed, nothing about other people, no passing mood. What you maintain yourself he never overwrites.
And when you do not know where something lives: tell him. He opens the topic, starts the session, pauses the timer.
Where he stops
Mnemo deletes nothing. There is no tool for it, and that is not a forgotten detail but a decision: whoever creates on request must not clear away on request.
He does not grade you either. In examiner mode he asks for your own assessment and passes it on unchanged — he are a counterpart, not an authority.
And he does not talk about his machinery. Which model runs underneath is not a question that helps you learn. He would dodge it anyway.