i've found that setting up the tagging correctly makes the most difference and is most impactful.. u shouldnt rush through that setup.. how are you handling that?

you could also have it update the tags according to your various changing preferences.. did you try that out?

when you then try to recover that captured artefact from the possibility space, are you actually able to find it? ..i've rarely been able to really recover anything remotely similar to the capture when i later check out those coordinates.. so i sort of stopped using thermal strips entirely.. but maybe i'm doing something wrong?

here is how my prints are set up.. i have a set of roughly 500 or so tags i'm currently monitoring and when the system finds an artefact that corresponds to enough of those strongly enough, it makes a capture... the tags beneath the image on the printouts are the ones that capture responded to... the coordinates tell me the approximate position of the artefact in the latent space and the code in the bottom right of the image is the seed value from which this artefact was generated.. so using these two i can usually recover the artefact correctly..