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Temporal Search

Querying an asset library using time-based expressions — "what I made last Tuesday," "images from the brutalist architecture session," or "everything from the first three weeks of the project." Treats time periods and creative sessions as first-class navigation dimensions.

Temporal search goes beyond simple date filters by understanding creative time in context. A date range filter requires knowing specific dates; temporal search understands relative time ("last week"), session-relative time ("the session where I explored brutalist architecture"), and project-relative time ("early in the project").

The effectiveness of temporal search depends on creative session clustering — without session boundaries, temporal queries can only operate on raw timestamps. With session context, the system can resolve queries like "the session after lunch where I switched to landscape compositions" into a specific set of assets.

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