> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gobihq.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Directory

> The people in your conversations, collected in one place.

The directory is **the people side of your captures**. Meet someone, capture the conversation, and they become part of a record you can come back to: who they are, when you talked, and what was said.

People in your directory don't need to be Gobi users. If you captured a conversation with them, they can be in it.

## How people get in

Gobi tracks the distinct voices in your captured conversations. To turn a voice into a person:

1. Create the person in the directory and give them a name.
2. Link their voice to them.

One person can have several linked voices. Voice matching isn't perfect, so the same person sometimes shows up as two distinct voices; linking both to the one person fixes it.

## What the directory is for

<Frame caption="The directory, newest voices at the top.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/gobi/Oxup44ERc_bFkJAd/images/app/directory.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=Oxup44ERc_bFkJAd&q=85&s=e9f26792aa771e9b8a21c972f6a3585f" alt="The directory, with linked-voice counts" style={{maxWidth:"320px"}} width="393" height="852" data-path="images/app/directory.png" />
</Frame>

Open a person to see the conversations you've had with them. Before the next meeting, that's your recap: what they said last time, what you promised, what to bring up. What a profile holds, and how Gobi uses it, is in [person profiles](/directory/profiles).

A directory with nothing in it says so, and tells you what fills it.

<Frame caption="Before your first capture.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/gobi/Oxup44ERc_bFkJAd/images/app/directory-empty.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=Oxup44ERc_bFkJAd&q=85&s=be2bbb7c2520d50567aea2c83a323091" alt="The empty directory" style={{maxWidth:"320px"}} width="393" height="852" data-path="images/app/directory-empty.png" />
</Frame>

## Your directory is yours

Under the personal-core model, **the directory lives in your Home**, alongside your notes and your devices. Home has one member, so the people you've captured are yours.

A directory used to belong to the space its conversations were captured in, and everyone in that space shared it. That changed with the personal-core decision on 07-24: captures, notes, and the directory all land with the person who recorded. See [where your captures go](/privacy/your-captures).
