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You probably can’t answer this question off the top of your head: every move your AI makes on your data — what does that look like over a week? Not the chats you remember having. The ones you forgot. The screenshots you uploaded and dismissed. The documents you pasted and closed. The follow-up calls that…
If you keep an Obsidian vault, you have already done the hard part of building a personal knowledge base. You’ve decided what’s worth writing down. You’ve built a folder structure that mostly survives contact with reality. You’ve accumulated some number of meeting notes and journal entries and project briefs and references that, taken together, are…
The smallest behavior change that makes every future AI conversation smarter is also the laziest one. You add one sentence to the end of a chat. You don’t think about where it goes. You don’t open another app. Tomorrow, in a different assistant, the thing you just told it shows up. The habit is “remember…
A year ago I switched from ChatGPT to Claude. I’d taught ChatGPT my preferences for a year — pull-request style, the right tone for emails to my accountant, what “the vendor” means in our shared context. None of it moved. I started over. Last month I did it again, on purpose, as a test. I…
You’ve pasted the same twelve-page master services agreement into three different chats this month. Once for the indemnification clause. Once for a question about IP assignment. Once because you forgot what the renewal terms said. Each time, the same upload, the same patient summary by the assistant, the same chat-window context burned on a document…
You photographed the lease last March. You tagged it, you searched it twice, you forgot about it. Today you ask your assistant to “clean up old documents I don’t need anymore.” It’s helpful. It is, in fact, a little too helpful. That’s the moment Mneme’s protect flip switch is for. One toggle in the note…
Engineering track. This post goes deep on Mneme’s recall pipeline — vector retrieval, BM25, Reciprocal Rank Fusion, provenance metadata. If you’re here for the consumer story of how recall feels in daily use, the portable-memory post and the contractor anecdote in the Obsidian post cover the same ground without the implementation depth. The point at…
It’s Tuesday morning and a four-page rental agreement is sitting on your kitchen table. You could snap a photo of it, paste the text into Claude, copy the answer somewhere safe, and then re-paste the whole thing next week when you’ve forgotten which clause covered late fees. Or you could hand the photo to your…
You probably think “AI memory” means the chat history sidebar. The list of titled threads you scroll back through when you’re trying to remember what you and Claude figured out three Tuesdays ago. That’s not memory. That’s a transcript that disappears when you change apps. Real, portable memory is a place. This post is about…