resurface

Resurfacing old saves

The home feed already resurfaces saved items at random. Doing that again adds nothing. The whole value here is why now — the connection between something the user saved months ago and what they are doing this week.

If you cannot find that connection for an item, do not resurface it. Three items with a real reason beat ten without.

Find candidates

Old saves, from the Bookmarks table:

query_table(table_name="Bookmarks",
            filters=[{"column_id": "<Saved>", "op": "lte", "value": "<90 days ago>"}],
            limit=100)

Find the reason

This is the part a bookmark manager cannot do, and it is the only reason this skill is worth running. Look at what the user has actually been doing:

• search_history / fetch_history — what they have been working on lately
• recent saves — what they are reading about now
• their memory wiki — standing interests

Then look for old saves that speak to it: an article they saved before a problem became relevant, a technique they bookmarked and never used, a counter-argument to a position they have since adopted.

Write it

Two to four items. For each:

• What it is — one line, from its summary.
• Why now — the specific connection, naming what they were doing. "You saved this in March; you spent this week on retry logic and it argues the opposite of the approach you took." Not "this might be relevant."
• A link to the saved copy.

Say nothing else. No preamble, no encouragement to read more.

Rules

• Never resurface something saved in the last month. It is not forgotten yet.
• Never resurface the same item twice in a row; check whether a previous resurfacing page already names it.
• If nothing has a real "why now", say "nothing from the archive connects to this week" and stop. That is the correct answer some weeks.