4 · Retrieval
Send the ten notes that matter.
Many ways of adding AI to a note app send whole folders, or the entire vault, with every question. Sage finds the ten closest notes and sends a short excerpt of each. That keeps answers grounded, costs small and the rest of your vault at home.
Default: 10 notes × 1,500 characters ≈ 15,000 characters per question, compared with the full size of the vault.
Ask the example vault.
Pick a question and see which notes would be sent. Then tick an exclusion and watch notes drop out before anything leaves.
A question returns a short list of context sources. Excluded notes are never indexed, never sent and never shown.
Every answer opens with the list of notes it used. You can always check.