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Summarize any Mem collection without reading every note
For leaders who want their AI assistant to give them the themes and the stale notes in a Mem collection.
On this page
Connector
Connect Mem, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
No time to read a whole collection
A Mem collection can hold dozens of notes written over months by different people. Getting its gist means reading every note, and themes, stale notes and near empty ones are easy to miss when you skim.
Without PopdockAI
- Open and read every note in the collection
- Note the themes as you go
- Try to spot stale or empty notes
- Skim and miss what matters
With PopdockAI
- The collection is found, or the options are listed
- Full note content is read up to your limit
- A summary and themes come with supporting notes
- Stale and near empty notes are flagged, read only
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** Summarize what is in the Mem collection titled {collection-title}, looking at up to {max-notes} notes (default 20).
**Step 1: Resolve the collection**
Call mem-get-collections with itle set to {collection-title}. If none match, retry with itle.contains and list the candidates, then stop. If more than one matches, list them and stop.
**Step 2: Read the notes**
Call mem-get-notes with collection-id set to the collection id and max-records set to {max-notes}. Use the content field, not just the snippet.
**Step 3: Report**
* Three to five sentence summary of the collection.
* Main themes as bullets, each with the notes that support it.
* Notes that look stale (oldest updated-at) or near-empty.
* Say how many notes exist against how many you read if the cap cut the list short.
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* Read only. Never call mem-create-note, mem-update-note, mem-delete-note, mem-trash-note, mem-restore-note, mem-move-note, mem-add-note-to-collection, mem-remove-note-from-collection, mem-set-note-created-date, mem-create-collection, mem-update-collection, mem-delete-collection or mem-mem-it.
* Do not show notes whose rashed-at is set unless the user asks for them.
* Quote note content sparingly and never invent content.
**Validation:**
* If the collection has no notes, say it is empty and stop.Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Executives
Get the gist without the reading
A short summary and main themes let you catch up on a body of work in minutes.
Summarize my Board prep collection in Mem.
New team members
Get up to speed on a topic
Learn what a team has captured on a subject, with the notes behind each theme.
Summarize the Product roadmap collection in Mem and list its main themes.
Knowledge managers
Find notes that need attention
Stale and nearly empty notes are flagged so the collection can be refreshed.
Read 40 notes from my Customer research collection in Mem and tell me which are out of date.
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You name a collection and optionally how many notes to read, and your AI assistant summarizes it. It only reads, and says if the cap cut the list short.
01
Ask
You name a collection and, optionally, how many notes to read.
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Resolve
It finds the collection, and stops to list the options if the name is ambiguous.
03
Read
It reads the full content of the notes, up to your limit.
04
Report
You get a short summary, the main themes, and the stale or near-empty notes.
What PopdockAI provides
The tools behind the answer
Ready made tools for Mem and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.
mem-get-collections
mem-get-notes
This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.
The outcome
The gist of a collection in one answer
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