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What is an interest?

Yenta determines your interests by scanning your files and clumping together email messages or entire files which seem to be talking about the same thing. Each of these clumps is called an interest, and is what Yenta uses when finding other Yentas whose users seem to be similar to you. Yentas that have found each other and share a particular interest turn into a cluster, and you can send messages to particular individuals in a cluster, or to everyone in the cluster.

You can see what Yenta knows about your interests here. This table shows a number of things about each interest.

Telling Yenta about your interests

The easiest way to tell Yenta about your interests is simply to show it some files that reflect those interests. However, if you have interests that are not reflected by the documents on your computer (perhaps because you have not done anything involving this interest using your computer), you can create a description of your interest and give it to Yenta.

When writing for Yenta, it is important to understand that it only looks at words, and not grammar. Therefore:

Yenta avoids most problems with understanding your documents by having a large number of them, which it examines for similarities. Since you will not want to write a lengthy document to explain your interest, you need to make it easy for Yenta to understand.

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