Storage Layout

Everything lives under ~/.amem/.

~/.amem/
├── raw/                          # original captures
│   ├── vaswani2017attention.pdf
│   └── ...
├── wiki/                         # compiled notes
│   ├── 20260418_vaswani2017attention.md
│   └── ...
└── index.md                      # auto-maintained TOC

raw/

Original files exactly as downloaded. amem verify re-hashes against these.

wiki/

Compiled markdown notes. One file per cite key. Filename prefix is the compile timestamp so recompiles preserve history (you can git init ~/.amem/wiki && git commit if you want versioning).

index.md

Auto-regenerated on every amem compile — a flat list of all cite keys with paths. Never edit by hand.

Custom location

Override with AMEM_HOME=<path> (planned — not yet wired up).