# The first run should remember something

The early REM first run mapped a mailbox and local coding sessions into pages,
then left most pages as empty frames. The map was useful infrastructure, but it
made the person wait before they could see why a memory notebook mattered.
Investigating only the owner's page helped; it still left the relationships and
projects that give that page meaning untouched.

We tried widening the first run to the whole notebook. It showed that pages
could be investigated in parallel, but the oldest, quietest entries could use
the model before a reader saw anyone they had spoken to this week. The better
question was which pages would make the notebook recognizable on opening day.
We selected the owner, recent important people, active projects, and the
organizations connected to them.

The first private seven-day trial selected 27 pages. Twenty-six passed review;
one person page came back with ten History milestones, beyond the eight the
reader accepts. That was an expensive failure to discover after the model had
finished. We added a bounded repair turn for that specific error. It folded
the older history and the page passed, so the trial ended with 27 cited pages.

We then installed the proposed preview wheel and ran init again against a
fresh private notebook. It selected and accepted all 27 pages without a
refusal. The trial is evidence that this first run can produce pages instead of
empty frames; it cannot prove that every claim is right. The reader therefore
keeps citations and unresolved questions in view.

The recent cohort is a starting point, not a cutoff on a relationship's past:
one selected person may have two years of evidence to read. REM announces a
time and token estimate before it starts. Around 20% of a weekly runner
allowance guides that estimate, while selected work can continue past it. Old
and quiet pages remain in the map for later investigation. We will revisit the
cohort when real first runs show an important person was missed, or when a
completed first view still fails to reveal a useful connection.