typmem-retro

Write the diary entry for a chunk of work. A retro is the story of what happened to you — useful to tomorrow-you (or your successor) who needs to resume quickly. It is one of several memory layers under ~/.typmem/memory/; retro is the raw diary lane, not a reviewed or promoted artifact.

Retro vs learning — read this first

This single distinction governs everything:

• Retro = diary. "What happened to me." Has an I, a timeline, decisions, dead ends, loose threads. Useful soon, decays fast — three months later most of it is noise because the work moved on.
• Learning = recipe card. "What I now know about the world." A distilled fact with no story, no timeline, no I. True regardless of which day or project produced it. Useful to anyone, indefinitely. Learnings live elsewhere — typmem-learn handles them.

The test to tell them apart: "Will this still matter after the work that produced it is finished?"

• No → it is retro material (status, decisions-in-flight, follow-ups). Write it here.
• Yes → it is a learning. Do NOT bury it in the diary; flag it (see step 7) and let typmem-learn capture it.

A retro is allowed and expected to be messy, first-person, and time-ordered. That is the point — do not sanitize it into a polished report.

What goes in a retro