diff --git a/cmd/mavend/memoryeval.go b/cmd/mavend/memoryeval.go
index 2faea11..7a8f2d7 100644
--- a/cmd/mavend/memoryeval.go
+++ b/cmd/mavend/memoryeval.go
@@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ import (
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 )
 
+// memoryEvalTimeout — the per-request deadline on one evaluation.
+//
+// It used to be five minutes, on the grounds that nobody waits for the answer.
+// Nobody waits for the evaluation, but there is ONE resident model behind one
+// llama-server, so a voice turn that arrives mid-evaluation waits behind it:
+// five minutes of evaluation is five minutes of a mute assistant. Sixty seconds
+// is long enough for a Thinking model on this prompt and short enough that the
+// worst collision is one turn answered late rather than a turn abandoned. An
+// evaluation cut off here costs nothing: it is retried at the next interval.
+const memoryEvalTimeout = 60 * time.Second
+
 // memoryEvalWorker — ticker + evaluator.
 type memoryEvalWorker struct {
 	eval     *memeval.Evaluator
@@ -47,9 +58,7 @@ func newMemoryEvalWorker(st *store.Store, phr phraser.Phraser, cfg *config.Confi
 	if interval <= 0 {
 		interval = config.DefaultMemoryEvalInterval
 	}
-	// A generous per-request timeout: this is a long prompt to a Thinking model
-	// and nobody is waiting on the answer.
-	client := llmClientFor(lp, 5*time.Minute)
+	client := llmClientFor(lp, memoryEvalTimeout)
 	ev := memeval.NewEvaluator(st, st, client, memeval.Config{
 		MaxItems:      cfg.MemoryEval.MaxItems,
 		MinConfidence: cfg.MemoryEval.MinConfidence,
diff --git a/internal/memeval/eval.go b/internal/memeval/eval.go
index 1edb5f5..d1eb3ad 100644
--- a/internal/memeval/eval.go
+++ b/internal/memeval/eval.go
@@ -85,7 +85,13 @@ type Completer interface {
 // no config facts.
 type Reader interface {
 	RecentFacts(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]store.Fact, error)
-	RecentNotes(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]store.Note, error)
+	// RecentNotesExcludingSource feeds the snapshot, RecentNotesBySource feeds
+	// the dedupe. Both are source-scoped in SQL rather than filtered here: a
+	// plain RecentNotes read makes each window a budget over ALL note writers,
+	// so her own hourly observations shrink the snapshot and ordinary notes
+	// push old observations out of the dedupe set.
+	RecentNotesExcludingSource(ctx context.Context, source string, n int) ([]store.Note, error)
+	RecentNotesBySource(ctx context.Context, source string, n int) ([]store.Note, error)
 	RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]store.Nudge, error)
 }
 
@@ -226,29 +232,44 @@ func formatNote(o Observation) string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%s [%s]", o.Text, o.Action)
 }
 
+// DedupeWindow — how many of her OWN past observations the dedupe looks back
+// over. Wider than MaxItems because the point is to remember saying it, not to
+// summarize it. Counted in eval notes only: when this was a plain recent-notes
+// read the window was really a budget over every note writer, so a few hundred
+// ordinary notes pushed an observation out of sight and the next evaluation was
+// free to write the same sentence again.
+const DedupeWindow = 200
+
 // recordedTexts — the normalized text of every observation earlier evaluations
-// wrote, for dedupe. Reads a wider window than MaxItems because the point is to
-// remember saying it, not to summarize it.
+// wrote, for dedupe.
 func (e *Evaluator) recordedTexts(ctx context.Context) (map[string]bool, error) {
-	notes, err := e.read.RecentNotes(ctx, 200)
+	notes, err := e.read.RecentNotesBySource(ctx, EvalNoteSource, DedupeWindow)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("memory eval: recent notes: %w", err)
 	}
 	seen := make(map[string]bool, len(notes))
 	for _, n := range notes {
-		if n.Source != EvalNoteSource {
-			continue
-		}
-		text := n.Text
-		// Strip the "[action]" suffix formatNote appended.
-		if i := strings.LastIndex(text, " ["); i > 0 && strings.HasSuffix(text, "]") {
-			text = text[:i]
-		}
-		seen[normalizeObservation(text)] = true
+		seen[normalizeObservation(stripAction(n.Text))] = true
 	}
 	return seen, nil
 }
 
+// actions — the suggested_action enum, as the grammar constrains it.
+var actions = []string{"note", "propose", "notify"}
+
+// stripAction removes the "[action]" suffix formatNote appended, and only that.
+// Matching any bracketed tail would eat the end of an observation that happens
+// to finish on a bracketed clause, which changes its dedupe key and lets the
+// same sentence through twice.
+func stripAction(text string) string {
+	for _, a := range actions {
+		if s, ok := strings.CutSuffix(text, " ["+a+"]"); ok {
+			return s
+		}
+	}
+	return text
+}
+
 // normalizeObservation — dedupe key. Case- and whitespace-insensitive, which
 // catches the realistic repeat (the model re-emitting the same sentence with a
 // different comma) without pretending to do semantic dedupe.
@@ -259,16 +280,19 @@ func normalizeObservation(s string) string {
 // snapshot renders recent memory as the user turn. Returns "" when there is
 // nothing in any store — the caller treats that as "do not ask the model".
 //
-// Notes written by earlier evaluations are excluded. Feeding her own
+// Notes written by earlier evaluations are excluded, in SQL. Feeding her own
 // observations back in is how "я заметила, что ты не записывал еду" becomes
-// evidence for noticing it again, three evaluations deep.
+// evidence for noticing it again, three evaluations deep. Excluding them after
+// the read was worse than not excluding them: hourly evaluation makes her own
+// notes the majority of the newest rows within weeks, so asking for MaxItems
+// and dropping hers left the model a handful of real notes to look at.
 func (e *Evaluator) snapshot(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
 	n := e.cfg.MaxItems
 	facts, err := e.read.RecentFacts(ctx, n)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("memory eval: recent facts: %w", err)
 	}
-	notes, err := e.read.RecentNotes(ctx, n)
+	notes, err := e.read.RecentNotesExcludingSource(ctx, EvalNoteSource, n)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("memory eval: recent notes: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -286,19 +310,10 @@ func (e *Evaluator) snapshot(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
 			wrote = true
 		}
 	}
-	own := 0
-	var noteLines []string
-	for _, nt := range notes {
-		if nt.Source == EvalNoteSource {
-			own++
-			continue
-		}
-		noteLines = append(noteLines, fmt.Sprintf("- %s %s\n", nt.Ts.Format("2006-01-02 15:04"), truncate(nt.Text, 160)))
-	}
-	if len(noteLines) > 0 {
+	if len(notes) > 0 {
 		b.WriteString("\nЗаметки:\n")
-		for _, l := range noteLines {
-			b.WriteString(l)
+		for _, nt := range notes {
+			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "- %s %s\n", nt.Ts.Format("2006-01-02 15:04"), truncate(nt.Text, 160))
 			wrote = true
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/internal/memeval/eval_test.go b/internal/memeval/eval_test.go
index 93979ee..bcd794d 100644
--- a/internal/memeval/eval_test.go
+++ b/internal/memeval/eval_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -269,3 +270,95 @@ func TestParseObservationsTolerantAndBounded(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("parsed %d observations, want the %d cap", len(obs), MaxObservations)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestDedupeSurvivesOrdinaryNotes — the dedupe window is a count of HER notes,
+// not of all notes. With a plain recent-notes read, DedupeWindow ordinary notes
+// written after an observation pushed it out of sight and the same sentence was
+// written again on the next evaluation.
+func TestDedupeSurvivesOrdinaryNotes(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newTestStore(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	now := refNow()
+	seedMemory(t, st, ctx, now)
+
+	same := `[{"observation":"ты три дня не записывал еду","confidence":0.9,"suggested_action":"note"}]`
+	f := &fakeLLM{replies: []string{same, same}}
+	ev := NewEvaluator(st, st, f, Config{})
+
+	if _, err := ev.Evaluate(ctx, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Evaluate: %v", err)
+	}
+	// A few months of ordinary use between the two evaluations.
+	for i := 0; i < DedupeWindow*2; i++ {
+		if _, err := st.WriteNote(ctx, now.Add(time.Duration(i+1)*time.Minute),
+			fmt.Sprintf("обычная заметка %d", i), nil, "tap:voice"); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("write note: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, err := ev.Evaluate(ctx, now.Add(24*time.Hour)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Evaluate: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	own, err := st.RecentNotesBySource(ctx, EvalNoteSource, 100)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("RecentNotesBySource: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(own) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("eval notes = %d, want 1 — the repeat was not deduped", len(own))
+	}
+}
+
+// TestSnapshotBudgetIsNotEatenByOwnNotes — MaxItems notes must be MaxItems of
+// HIS notes. Reading MaxItems rows and then discarding hers left the model a
+// handful of real notes once hourly evaluation had run for a few weeks.
+func TestSnapshotBudgetIsNotEatenByOwnNotes(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newTestStore(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	now := refNow()
+
+	// His notes first, then a long run of hers on top of them.
+	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
+		if _, err := st.WriteNote(ctx, now.Add(-time.Duration(100-i)*time.Hour),
+			fmt.Sprintf("его заметка %d", i), nil, "tap:voice"); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("write note: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	for i := 0; i < 50; i++ {
+		if _, err := st.WriteNote(ctx, now.Add(-time.Duration(50-i)*time.Hour),
+			fmt.Sprintf("я заметила кое-что %d [note]", i), nil, EvalNoteSource); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("write note: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	f := &fakeLLM{replies: []string{"[]"}}
+	ev := NewEvaluator(st, st, f, Config{MaxItems: 5})
+	if _, err := ev.Evaluate(ctx, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Evaluate: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(f.calls) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("LLM calls = %d, want 1", len(f.calls))
+	}
+	prompt := f.calls[0].User
+	if strings.Contains(prompt, "я заметила") {
+		t.Errorf("her own observations reached the prompt:\n%s", prompt)
+	}
+	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
+		if !strings.Contains(prompt, fmt.Sprintf("его заметка %d", i)) {
+			t.Errorf("his note %d missing from the prompt:\n%s", i, prompt)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestStripActionKeepsBracketedTail — the dedupe key strips the recorded
+// action and nothing else. Cutting at the last " [" ate the end of an
+// observation that itself ends on a bracketed clause, so the same sentence
+// hashed two ways.
+func TestStripActionKeepsBracketedTail(t *testing.T) {
+	text := "ты не пил воду [со вторника]"
+	if got := stripAction(formatNote(Observation{Text: text, Action: "note"})); got != text {
+		t.Errorf("stripAction = %q, want %q", got, text)
+	}
+	if got := stripAction(text); got != text {
+		t.Errorf("stripAction = %q, want it untouched", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/store/notes.go b/internal/store/notes.go
index b2b4179..a4770bd 100644
--- a/internal/store/notes.go
+++ b/internal/store/notes.go
@@ -80,8 +80,29 @@ func (s *Store) QueryNotes(ctx context.Context, embedding []float32, k int) ([]N
 // embedding math; Score stays 0). This is the read surface for /dash: notes
 // captured by voice are otherwise only reachable through semantic query.
 func (s *Store) RecentNotes(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Note, error) {
+	return s.recentNotesWhere(ctx, "", n)
+}
+
+// RecentNotesBySource returns the newest n notes written by one source, newest
+// first. The filter is in SQL, not in the caller, because a caller that reads n
+// rows and then keeps the ones it wants has a window measured in OTHER writers'
+// traffic: once n newer notes from anywhere have landed, the rows it was
+// looking for are gone. Anything that needs "the last n of mine" wants this.
+func (s *Store) RecentNotesBySource(ctx context.Context, source string, n int) ([]Note, error) {
+	return s.recentNotesWhere(ctx, "WHERE source = ?", n, source)
+}
+
+// RecentNotesExcludingSource returns the newest n notes NOT written by source.
+// Same reasoning inverted: a reader that wants n notes he wrote must not have
+// its budget eaten by rows it is about to discard.
+func (s *Store) RecentNotesExcludingSource(ctx context.Context, source string, n int) ([]Note, error) {
+	return s.recentNotesWhere(ctx, "WHERE source <> ?", n, source)
+}
+
+func (s *Store) recentNotesWhere(ctx context.Context, where string, n int, args ...any) ([]Note, error) {
+	args = append(args, n)
 	rows, err := s.db.QueryContext(ctx,
-		`SELECT id, ts, text, source FROM notes ORDER BY ts DESC LIMIT ?`, n)
+		`SELECT id, ts, text, source FROM notes `+where+` ORDER BY ts DESC LIMIT ?`, args...)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("recent notes: %w", err)
 	}
diff --git a/models/stt b/models/stt
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..b983fa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/stt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/home/kami/apps/Maven/models/stt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/models/tts b/models/tts
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..66782fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/tts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/home/kami/apps/Maven/models/tts
\ No newline at end of file