(zettel (meta (back "00001004011200") (backward "00001004011200") (box-number "1") (created "20220307112918") (modified "20250627155851") (published "20250627155851") (role "manual") (syntax "zmk") (tags "#configuration #manual #zettelstore") (title "Configure memory boxes")) (rights 4) (encoding "") (content "Under most circumstances, it is preferable to further configure a memory box.\nThis is done by appending query parameters after the base box URI ''mem:''.\n\nThe following parameters are supported:\n\n|= Parameter:|Description|Default value:|Maximum value:\n|max-bytes|Maximum number of bytes the box will store|65535|1073741824 (1 GiB)\n|max-zettel|Maximum number of zettel|127|65535\n\nThe default values are somewhat arbitrary but applicable to many use cases.\n\nWhile the number of zettel should be easily calculable by a user, the number of bytes might be a bit more difficult to determine.\n\nMetadata consumes 6 bytes for the zettel identifier, plus one byte for the separator for each metadata value, in addition to the length of the key and data.\nThe size of the content is its size in bytes. For text content, this corresponds to the number of bytes in its UTF-8 encoding.\n\nIf one of the limits is exceeded, Zettelstore will return an error indicated by the HTTP status code 507."))