Memory
BrightMind learns from what you tell it, keeps your past conversations, and follows instructions you write. This page explains what each of those means and where to see them.
Three different things
People often mean one of three things by “memory”. BrightMind keeps all three separate, and they work differently.
| What it is | Plain explanation | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Conversation history | Your past messages and BrightMind’s replies, stored as they happened. | Reopen yesterday’s conversation and read it from the start. |
| Memory | Context BrightMind learns from what you tell it over time. | It may remember that afternoons are difficult for you. |
| Custom instructions | Directions you write yourself about how BrightMind should respond. | “Give me one next step at a time.” About custom instructions |
BrightMind can also search your past conversations when you ask, so “what did we decide about the dentist last month?” gets an answer from the thread where you decided it.
Where to see it: the memory summary
Open Settings, then Personalization, then Memory summary. There you see one short written summary of what BrightMind has picked up about you from your conversations.
- The summary is generated when you open the page, and refreshed at most once a day.
- It is available to every user. There is nothing to switch on and no plan requirement.
- It shows what BrightMind has picked up, not everything it knows. Details can be missing or out of date.
What you say right now always takes priority over what BrightMind remembers from before.
Where to see it
The summary is a window, not a complete record. There is no list of individual facts to edit and no button that deletes memory. Deleting your account erases everything BrightMind has learned about you. Deleting a single conversation removes that thread, but not what BrightMind already learned from it.
Brain dumps from a call survive the call
If you speak a brain dump during a voice call, everything you said is there after the call ends. Open the conversation afterwards and your thoughts, and any tasks made from them, are still findable. The end of a call is not the end of what you said.
Telling it to remember or correct
You can shape memory in conversation. Telling BrightMind to remember something works. If a detail is wrong or no longer true (“I don’t work Saturdays anymore”), tell it so, and it takes that into account from then on.
One honest limit: BrightMind can’t delete a specific memory on request. A correction changes how it treats that detail, but the older one isn’t erased, and there is currently no delete-memory button. The only way to wipe what it has learned is to delete your account.
Your data and your control
Deleting a conversation, deleting your account, and disconnecting an app are different actions with different effects. See Account and data for what each one does. For the full details of how your data is handled, read the privacy policy.
Next step
Memory is what BrightMind learns. Custom instructions are what you tell it. If you want it to respond a certain way every time, write it down: Custom instructions.