# Relevancy vs Recency

**URL:** <https://community.pinecone.io/t/relevancy-vs-recency/687>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 28, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/relevancy-vs-recency/687 "2023-02-28T11:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![nyasour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9de053/32.png) [@nyasour](https://community.pinecone.io/u/nyasour)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/relevancy-vs-recency/687/1 "2023-02-28T11:53:48Z")

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I’m building a personal memory application and would like to give a weight to the recency of the query result and not only the relevancy. Is the best way to do so is simply to sort the results based on recency after finding the most relevant results or is there a better way to approach it?

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**Author:** ![jamesbriggs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/jamesbriggs/32/52_2.png) [@jamesbriggs](https://community.pinecone.io/u/jamesbriggs)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/relevancy-vs-recency/687/2 "2023-10-17T18:35:12Z")

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Simplest approach is to return (for example) 1000 records and then rerank them based on recency.

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**Author:** ![jamesbriggs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/jamesbriggs/32/52_2.png) [@jamesbriggs](https://community.pinecone.io/u/jamesbriggs)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/relevancy-vs-recency/687/3 "2023-10-17T18:35:17Z")

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Closed on October 17, 2023, 6:35pm UTC