Memobase allows you to customize the profile slots’ creation and update.

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Instruct Memobase to create a new profile slot

For easy understanding, Memobase uses a topic and sub_topics to describe a profile slot. For example

overwrite_user_profiles:
    - topic: "work"
      sub_topics:
        - "company"
        - "position"
        - "department"
        - "start_date"
        - "achievements"

But sometimes the topic/sub-topic themselves are not enough for Memobase to understand what you really want to track, you can add more description to them.

overwrite_user_profiles:
    - topic: "work"
      sub_topics:
        ...
        - name: "start_date"
          description: "The start date of new job, in format YYYY-MM-DD"

description field is optional, and it will be used to help Memobase to understand what you really want to track.

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Instruct Memobase to update a profile slot

Memobase not only creates those profiles, but also maintains them to be up-to-date. That means, we need to update some of the slots when the user provides new information.

For example, if the user tells Memobase that he/she has a new job, we need to update the work/start_date profile slot:

old_date -> "2020-01-01"
new_date -> "2021-01-01"

update_to -> "2021-01-01"

If you like a certain way of updating, you can add a update_description to the profile slot:

For example, if you like to keep the very first start date of the user’s work history, you can add the following to your config.yaml:

overwrite_user_profiles:
    - topic: "work"
      sub_topics:
        ...
        - name: "start_date"
          update_description: "Alway keep the oldest start date"

Memobase will try not to update the work/start_date profile slot, and keep the oldest start date.