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title: Personalized ranking | Relic Help
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# Personalized ranking

Relic notices which items you pick for which searches and moves them up next time. Everything it learns stays on the device, and you can clear it.

Updated 10 September 2026 · Every platform

## [What it learns](#what-it-learns)

Relic watches which item you pick and quietly moves that sort of item up next time. Nothing about the item changes. It only changes where it sits in a list of results that already match what you typed.

Three things nudge an item up:

* **How often you use it.** An address you paste every week beats one you pasted once in March.
* **Which words you used.** If you search _ein_ and always pick the same line, that line comes first the next time you search _ein_.
* **Which app you were in.** Summon Relic from your terminal and the things you usually paste into a terminal come up first.

The effect is deliberately small. It settles a close call between two results that both match. It never lifts something over a clearly better match, and it never puts an item in a list it does not belong in.

This works alongside the ordinary ranking on [the search page](https://relic.space/help/search) and the meaning pass on [Search by meaning](https://relic.space/help/search-by-meaning). It also fades: an item you stop reaching for drifts back down over a few weeks.

## [It stays on the device](#stays-here)

What Relic learns is kept on the machine that learned it. It is not part of your vault, so it never goes to the server and never reaches your other devices. Your laptop and your desktop each build their own sense of what you reach for.

What is stored

A count and a date for each item you copy out, and for each word you searched before picking one. No log of what you did when, and nothing that leaves the device. Deleting an item drops what was learned about it.

## [Turning it off or clearing it](#turning-it-off)

Both rows are in Settings›Search and AI.

Personalized ranking

Items you pick often, for a search or into an app, rank higher over time. Learned and stored on this device only.

Settings › Search and AI › Personalized ranking: toggle, default on.

Clear learned ranking

Start fresh: forget which items ranking has learned to favor.

Settings › Search and AI › Clear learned ranking: button: Clear learned ranking.

Turning [Personalized ranking](https://relic.space/help/settings-search-and-ai#personal-rank) off stops every one of these signals at once, and results go back to plain matching. [Clear learned ranking](https://relic.space/help/settings-search-and-ai#clear-rank) throws away what has been learned so far and starts again from nothing. Use it if you inherited a machine, or if a stale favourite keeps coming first.

Clearing does not touch your items, your tags or your Vault. The full pane is on [Settings: Search and AI](https://relic.space/help/settings-search-and-ai).

## [On your phone](#on-your-phone)

The phone has its own switch in the settings sheet, under **Search**, and its own separate memory.

Personalized ranking

Items you pick often rank higher over time. Learned and stored on this device only.

Settings on your phone › Search › Personalized ranking: toggle, default on.

Turning it off on your phone leaves your computer alone, and the other way round. See [Settings on your phone](https://relic.space/help/settings-on-your-phone).

Related

[Searching your vaultFind](https://relic.space/help/search)[Search by meaningFind](https://relic.space/help/search-by-meaning)[Search words and operatorsFind](https://relic.space/help/search-syntax)[The Relic windowGet started](https://relic.space/help/the-popup)