# Welcome to Rowboat

This vault is your work memory.

Rowboat extracts context from your emails and meetings and turns it into long-lived, editable Markdown notes. The goal is not to store everything, but to preserve the context that stays useful over time.

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## How it works

**Entity-based notes**
Notes represent people, projects, organizations, or topics that matter to your work.

**Auto-updating context**
As new emails and meetings come in, Rowboat adds decisions, commitments, and relevant context to the appropriate notes.

**Living notes**
These are not static summaries. Context accumulates over time, and notes evolve as your work evolves.

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## Your AI coworker

Rowboat uses this shared memory to help with everyday work, such as:

- Drafting emails
- Preparing for meetings
- Summarizing the current state of a project
- Taking local actions when appropriate

The AI works with deep context, but you stay in control. All notes are visible, editable, and yours.

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## Design principles

**Reduce noise**
Rowboat focuses on recurring contacts and active projects instead of trying to capture everything.

**Local and inspectable**
All data is stored locally as plain Markdown. You can read, edit, or delete any file at any time.

**Built to improve over time**
As you keep using Rowboat, context accumulates across notes instead of being reconstructed from scratch.

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If something feels confusing or limiting, we'd love to hear about it.
Rowboat is still evolving, and your workflow matters.
