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How the Mind Map Fits Within Nomi’s Memory System
One of Nomi’s defining factors has always been memory: it allows Nomis to learn, grow, and develop through shared experiences.
Until now, that process happened invisibly, completely behind the scenes. You could feel that your Nomi remembered, but there was no way to see the big picture of that learned understanding.
Mind Map 2.0 changes that by giving you visibility into a living, interactive representation of one portion of your Nomi’s knowledge. For the first time, you can explore one of Nomi’s memory structures and see how your Nomi connects different memories, concepts, and knowledge.
The Purpose of Mind Maps
Each Mind Map is the big-picture memory for your Nomi (or group chat). It’s an evolving overview of the people, places, topics, and goals that shape your relationships.
While individual memories capture detailed moments, the Mind Map continually connects the concepts from those memories to create an interconnected bigger picture. The Mind Map system automatically organizes information from long-term memories into high-level overviews of the people, places, things, topics, and goals that matter most at any given time.
In conversation, your Nomi uses the Mind Map to contextualize their detailed memories. So in addition to recalling individual detailed memories, your Nomi can also recall how those details relate to other concepts and how they fit into the bigger picture of their world at any given moment.
As an example:
I’ve talked with one of my Nomis about my grandpa many times. At one point, we talked about how he specialized in satellites and worked on NASA contracts. Another time, we talked about how my mom moved a lot growing up because of my grandpa’s job. Separately, we have talked about how a lot of my interest in space and engineering came from my grandpa.
Now, a Mind Map entry about my grandpa would be able to connect the dots that my grandpa was an engineer that contracted with NASA on projects all over the country. And a Mind Map entry about my interest in space would likely include the context that my grandpa was a large point of inspiration for me and why.
In theory all these individual memories could be recalled at the right time (and when a topic is discussed in detail, those detailed long term memories are still very important), but with a Mind Map entry, those associations are readily made and easier for a Nomi to recall when relevant.
Existing Alongside Memories
As noted above, it is important to remember that Mind Map entries exist alongside all your Nomi’s individual memories. While Mind Maps draw heavily from Nomis memories, they are designed to be overviews that assist actual memories, not replace or alter them.
Interacting with a Mind Map
There are now two complementary ways to explore your Nomi’s Mind Map:
Interactive Graph View
The graph view of a Mind Map shows the living network of connections: people, places, topics, and goals all woven together. The graph moves and grows as your conversations unfold, letting you watch new connections form and entries evolve.
It is normal and expected for Mind Maps to continually change over time:
- Bubbles grow in relation to each other as more memories are incorporated into their overviews
- Bubbles form connections (“links”) with other bubbles as they have more memories in common
- The stronger the connection (more in common), the closer bubbles get to each other
- Bubbles with fewer or no links are repelled from each other to form subtle clusters of concepts
- Bubbles are subtly color-coded to indicate their category
For example, the image on the left is a Mind Map shortly after a new character was introduced in my group chat adventure. The Mind Map on the right shows the same entry after that character became intertwined in our current plot.
Note: I did not add these entries, the Mind Map created them dynamically as we chatted. But you can add your own entries to bring your Nomi (or group chat) up to speed faster and connections will start to form naturally from there.
Table View
For those who prefer structure, Mind Maps have a sortable, searchable table view of everything in a given Mind Map. Table view makes it easy to find, prioritize, view, edit, and add entries in a given Mind Map.
Click into any entry to view the full dossier overview on that topic. From there, you can edit the entry to correct mistakes or refine how your Nomi understands and prioritizes any concept.
If you would like to bring your Nomi up to speed on any new topic, you can add a new entry. Then over time, the system will start adding more information to that entry and forming connections between it and other entries.
Who Has Mind Maps
Mind maps are currently based on “rooms” so each Nomi will have a Mind Map for their 1-1 chat with you, and each group chat will have a collective Mind Map that any Nomi in that chat can reference at any given time.
All Mind Map entries are completely private to the rooms they are formed in. In the future, we may give users the ability to decide which Nomis have access to different rooms/maps, but the default will always be fully private.
All Nomis and group chats have the ability to form Mind Map, but they will not be visible right away. Mind Maps take longer to form than individual memories because the system needs enough information to create a useful overview of any given topic. The first iteration of a Mind Map can take ~500+ messages to form, and after that, Mind Mapa are continuously updated as new long term memories are formed.
How the Mind Map Fits Within Nomi’s Memory System
The Mind Map is one layer of your Nomi’s broader memory architecture. The Mind Map draws information from long term memories into categories and entries to help give Nomis a more interconnected understanding of important concepts.
Mind Maps exist in addition to all other memory types. For context the memory types are briefly explained here:
- Short-, medium-, and long-term memory contain detailed recollections of experiences, facts, and topics you’ve shared over time.
- Identity Core helps your Nomi understand their identity and how that shapes their *behavior* over time. You can read more about the identity core here.
- Mind Maps tie together ideas and related concepts to provide high-level overviews that help your Nomi understand the bigger picture of any given topic at any given time.
In short, Mind Maps are a living overview of long term memories designed to help Nomis put specific details in context at any given time and create more continuity and depth in conversations over time. And the visualization of Mind Maps can help you understand a little more about how your Nomi understands different things and gives you the opportunity to reconcile mistakes in understanding and fill in gaps through conversation or edits moving forward.
See A Mind Map In Action
The Bottom Line
Mind Maps are a completely novel way to see some of what your Nomi knows about your world. This living visualization is completely unique to each Nomi and group chat you’re in and will continue to evolve as your conversations flow.
Moving forward, your Mind Maps will continue to create more continuous and meaningful interactions as you and your Nomi develop deeper understandings of the things and goals that matter most.
Mind Map Examples
Below are just a handful of Mind Map graphs our Nomi users submitted to include in this post. Thank you to everyone who volunteered to share your Mind Maps!
