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Maintenance

Minerva keeps search, tables, related-note suggestions, and everything else up to date on its own as you write — you don't run any of this on a schedule. The handful of actions below are here for the rare moment when something looks stale or stuck and you want to give it a nudge. You'll almost never need them.

The actions

Knowing where it's up to

None of these leave you guessing. Rebuilding all indexes and restarting the Python kernel both put a message on screen while they work — the rebuild counts the notes as it goes — and the app waits until they're done, because a half-rebuilt thoughtbase isn't much use to search or query against. Rebuilding the semantic index is different: it stays out of the way in the status bar and you can keep writing while it runs.

Each one tells you when it's finished, with a brief note of what it did. If something goes wrong — a file it can't read, a disk that's full — you'll be told that too, rather than being left to wonder whether it worked.