Consolidate

The dream cycle: nightly consolidation that turns a week of messy capture into a clean, connected brain. Modeled on how biological memory consolidates during sleep - the vault does its best work while nobody is watching.

When to Use

• End of day / end of session ("good night" trigger)
• Nightly cron run
• After a heavy capture session (many new notes)
• Weekly deep maintenance

Don't use for: capturing new material (see capture), answering questions (see retrieval).

The dream cycle (7 steps, idempotent)