Salience

Salience is the measure of how "important" a memory is. In OpenMemory, salience determines:

1. Retrieval Priority: High salience memories are more likely to be recalled.
2. Decay Resistance: High salience memories decay slower.

Calculation

Salience is calculated based on several factors:

1. Recency: Newer memories are more salient.
2. Frequency: Memories accessed often gain salience.
3. Emotional Intensity: Memories with strong sentiment scores (positive or negative) are boosted.
4. Explicit Priority: You can manually set importance.

Manual Control

You can override the calculated salience when adding a memory:

await mem.add("Critical system password", {
  salience: 1.0 // Maximum importance, will stick around
});