How to use it
Two steps to a log entry in your own words. No AI needed.
1 Say "captain's log", then the entry.
Say "captain's log, the Guardian site is two kilometres north of the landing pad".
D47 answers "Logged." and keeps every word after "captain's log" exactly as it heard them.
2 Or say the phrase alone, then the entry.
Say "captain's log", wait for "Go ahead.", then say the entry.
The next thing you say is kept word for word, even a command. "Cancel" or "never mind" saves nothing and D47 says "Not logged."; two minutes of silence drops the opening.
Why it works this way
Your own words, kept as you said them, with where you were.
1 The words are kept, not rewritten.
The details
Say “captain’s log” or “log entry”, optionally followed by a comma or colon, and then the entry. D47 saves the rest of the utterance exactly as it heard it and answers “Logged.”. No model is asked and nothing costs money.
What is saved with it
Each entry keeps the time (UTC) and whichever of these the game state knows at that moment: the
system, the body, the station when you are docked, the ship’s type and name, and your latitude and
longitude when you are on a body. Entries are kept per Commander in data\captains-log.json.
With no Commander flying, nothing is saved and D47 says “Nobody is flying, so there is nobody to log for.”
“Captain’s log entries” is not an entry; it is reserved for reading entries back.
Reading them back
These phrases are read without the model, so the words of an entry never leave this PC for a provider. Matches are read newest first, at most three, each opened by its date in the game’s calendar and its system. More than three ends with “and four more on the Captain’s log page.”
- “read my last log entry”
- “read today’s log entries”, “read yesterday’s log entries”, “read this week’s log entries”, “read this session’s log entries”
- “read log entries from Sol”, “read log entries in Sol”
- “read log entries about Colonia”, where every word has to appear in the entry
- “how many log entries”
- “delete my last log entry”, which says which one went by its date and first words
“Captain’s log entries from Sol” is a search, not an entry. The model cannot read entries, so “what did I note about Colonia” does not work; “read log entries about Colonia” does.
Exporting them
“Export my log entries” writes every entry for the Commander flying, oldest first, to
data\captains-log\<Frontier id>\captains-log-<yyyy-MM-dd>.md. A second export the same day is
written as -2, then -3, and never over the first. Each entry is a heading with its date in the
game’s calendar, a line with whichever of system, body, station, ship and position were known, and
the text. D47 says how many entries and where the file is. With no entries nothing is written and
D47 says so.
Where the words go
D47 sends entries nowhere. The words pass through the speech recognition provider you have selected as you speak them, and through the text-to-speech provider you have selected when D47 speaks “Logged.”. The Privacy and egress section names both, and says whether each runs on this PC.
Only you write them
The tools are protected: the AI is not offered them and is refused if it asks, so it cannot write, read or delete an entry in your name.
The tool surface, for contributors
add_log_entry
Save a log entry in the Commander’s own words, with the system, body, station, ship and position known now. Reached only by saying “captain’s log”.
{"type":"object","properties":{"text":{"type":"string","description":"The entry, as the Commander said it."}},"required":["text"],"additionalProperties":false}
find_log_entries
Read the Commander’s captain’s log entries back, newest first, at most three in full. Reached only by the read phrases above.
{"type":"object","properties":{"count_only":{"type":"boolean","description":"Say how many entries match instead of reading them."},"span":{"type":"string","description":"Which entries by time; all when omitted.","enum":["all","last","today","yesterday","week","session"]},"system":{"type":"string","description":"Only entries made in this star system."},"words":{"type":"string","description":"Only entries whose text holds every one of these words."}},"required":[],"additionalProperties":false}
delete_log_entry
Delete the Commander’s newest captain’s log entry. Reached only by saying “delete my last log entry”.
{"type":"object","properties":{},"required":[],"additionalProperties":false}
export_log_entries
Write every captain’s log entry of the Commander to a Markdown file, oldest first, and say how many and where. Reached only by saying “export my log entries”.
{"type":"object","properties":{},"required":[],"additionalProperties":false}