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When two notes or protocols cover similar ground, Bower’s AI quietly surfaces the connection as a suggested link. You’ll see them as chips with a dashed border and a small ✨ sparkle icon — visually distinct from the solid-bordered links you’ve created yourself. Hover an inferred chip and you’ll see a tooltip like “Suggested by AI · 83% similar” — the percentage is how confidently the AI thinks the two pieces of content are about the same thing. Anything below 72% similarity is ignored, so you only ever see strong candidates.

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Confirm or dismiss

Each inferred chip’s menu offers two actions instead of “Unlink”:
  • Confirm link — promotes the suggestion to a regular user-created link. The chip flips to a solid border and won’t be re-suggested. Use this when the AI got it right.
  • Dismiss — removes the suggestion and remembers your decision so the AI won’t surface that pair again, even if you edit either note. Use this when the suggestion isn’t useful.

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How they update

Bower refreshes suggestions overnight. Once a day (around 3am AEST), the AI scans every note and protocol you’ve changed since the last run, re-checks for similar content across your workspace, and refreshes the suggestions on each. There’s no manual “run inference” button — write your notes during the day, and connections appear by morning. We chose nightly batching over real-time inference to keep AI costs sustainable as the feature rolls out to everyone. In practice, the connection between two notes is just as useful the morning after as it would be three seconds after typing — and you avoid running the AI 30 times during a single editing session that hasn’t settled yet. A few things worth knowing:
  • Dismissals are workspace-wide. If anyone in your workspace dismisses a suggestion, it stays dismissed for the whole team — there’s no reason to dismiss the same pair twice.
  • Confirmed links survive edits. Once you confirm a suggestion, it becomes a normal link and is not affected by later edits to either side.
  • Notes need substance to be eligible. Suggestions require at least 150 characters of content. Short stubs and quick capture notes won’t trigger inference until they have more to compare.

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Privacy

Inferred suggestions are computed using the same semantic search that powers Bird’s hybrid search — content is processed by Vertex AI within your existing AI provider setup. Nothing leaves your workspace boundary, and the comparison runs against your workspace’s notes only.