Where to find it
Insights → Action tab → Mint Knows meter card.
The four stages
- Observing: Mint has seen a handful of entries. It can parrot them back but not yet connect them.
- Connecting: Mint is starting to link themes, tags, and people across entries.
- Understanding: Mint can talk about recurring patterns, charges and drains, who and what matter to you.
- Advising: Mint has enough depth to make specific, relevant suggestions and reflect back nuance.
Progression is cumulative, the meter measures how much Mint has, not how recently you journaled. Taking a week off won't push you back down a stage.
What influences progression
The meter is driven by concrete thresholds:
- Learned memories: count, variety of types (goal / preference / person / place / etc.), and how many are marked confirmed rather than needs confirmation. Roughly 10 learned items gets you to Connecting, 25 to Understanding, 40 to Advising.
- Weekly summaries: automatically written each week and feeding into the later stages.
- Profile depth: nickname, about-me, people, places, and interests count. A richer profile unlocks deeper stages faster.
- Memory source mix: a healthy blend of auto-extracted and explicitly saved memories (via chat or the
+button on the Mint Memory screen) reads as a stronger signal than many of just one kind.
Good to know
- The meter is read-only. You don't tune it directly, it's a reflection, not a setting.
- Adding profile information (especially people and interests) is the fastest way to move the meter.
- Saving memories during chat: or letting Mint save them automatically, also helps.
- No stage is "the goal". Advising is not better than Observing; it's just more context-rich. If you delete entries, the meter can step back.
Plan & limits
No plan gating. All users see Mint Knows.