docs/stacks/nexa/docs/01-vision-and-scope.md

01 — Vision & Scope

Vision

Nexa is the central nervous system of a personal IT setup: an intelligent middleware sitting between input sources (Memos, e-mail, RSS, Karakeep, Bluesky), knowledge stores (Obsidian, Qdrant, Nextcloud) and organization tools (Nextcloud Calendar/Tasks).

Core goals

• Cognitive offload — Nexa sorts, filters and proposes; it doesn't just store.
• Context separation — clean AI-driven split between Work and Personal.
• Single point of interaction — Memos is the primary surface ("voice & ear").
• Knowledge synergy — link ephemeral memos to deep notes via semantic search.

Scope

In-scope

• Triaging ~20 personal e-mails per day.
• Routing tasks to the right Nextcloud list (Work vs. Personal).
• Suggesting time-boxes in the work calendar.
• Long-term memory in Qdrant (and optionally a graph DB).
• Aggregating critical IT alerts (Proxmox, Backrest) into a Memos system feed.

Out-of-scope

• Direct access to work IT (work mail, work servers).
• Active document editing (metadata extraction only).
• Replacing specialist UIs (Arcane / Dozzle / Portainer for containers).

Success metrics

• Reduced mail interaction — less time in the mail app, more on the Nexa digest.
• Calendar fill-rate — focus slots auto-blocked on the work calendar.
• Search latency — old memos / Obsidian notes resurface instantly via #nexa:ask.