When memory is on, PrivateMind remembers durable facts you share in your conversations and uses them in later chats, so you don't have to repeat yourself. Tell it once that you work on credit-risk models or prefer short answers, and it carries that forward. Everything it remembers is private to you, drawn only from your own messages, and yours to delete at any time.
Memory is off by default. Nothing is stored until you turn it on.
Turning memory on
Memory takes two switches: your organisation enables it, then you opt in.
- Your administrator enables Memory for your organisation.
- You turn it on for yourself at Settings → Memory, with the Enable memory toggle.
If the toggle is greyed out with "Memory is turned off for your organization," your org hasn't enabled it yet. Ask your administrator.
What gets remembered
PrivateMind only forms memories from your own messages, never from the assistant's replies or from documents and web pages it reads. After a conversation, it looks for durable facts worth keeping, such as:
- Facts: "Works on credit-risk models", "Company fiscal year ends in March"
- Preferences: "Prefers concise answers", "Wants code examples in TypeScript"
Passing details and one-off questions aren't stored. When a fact changes, a newer one replaces the old, so your memory stays current rather than piling up contradictions.
How it shows up in chat
Recall is mostly silent. When you start a chat, the assistant already has the facts relevant to it and just uses them. Occasionally you'll see a Recalling memory step in the conversation when it looks something up specifically. To check what it knows, you can simply ask in any chat: "What do you know about me?"
Managing your memories
Open Settings → Memory to see everything stored under Stored Memories. Each entry shows the fact, a small tag for its type, and a link back to the conversation it came from with the date it was saved. Use Refresh to pull the latest.
To remove a single memory, click the trash icon on its row. It's gone immediately.
To keep a memory exactly as written, pin it with the pin icon on its row. A pinned memory is off-limits to automatic upkeep — Dream Mode never merges, refiles, or retires it, and it's never dropped to make room when your memory fills up. Pinned memories show a Pinned badge, and only you can edit or unpin them. Use the filter above the list to show only pinned or only unpinned memories.
Dream Mode: nightly consolidation
As you chat over weeks, your memory picks up near-duplicates and facts that have drifted out of date. Dream Mode consolidates them for you. Once a night it re-reads your stored memories, merges the duplicates, retires facts that have gone stale, refiles ones kept under the wrong type, and picks up durable new facts worth keeping — so recall stays sharp as your memory grows instead of blurring.
Dream Mode is off by default and separate from memory. Turn it on at Settings → Memory with the Enable Dream Mode toggle — memory has to be on first. From then on it runs overnight on its own. You can also start a run yourself with Re-run now; if a run is already in progress or waiting for review, it asks before discarding it.
Your chats keep using your current memories until a run is finished and applied. You're never talking to a half-consolidated store.
How a finished run lands depends on your organisation:
- You review first (default). The run's changes wait under Pending changes. Each one is a merge that folds duplicates together, a refile that moves a memory to a different type, a forget that retires a stale or contradicted memory with the reason why, or a plain edit shown as a before-and-after. Approve or reject them one at a time, or use Accept all / Reject all. Nothing touches your live memories until you apply it, and a rejected change won't be proposed again.
- Applied automatically. If your administrator has turned on auto-apply, a finished run updates your memory on its own. Last dream changes shows what it did, read-only.
If a run has nothing to change, you'll see a No changes card. Once Dream has a few runs behind it, Consolidation activity charts what each night cost.
Asking the assistant to forget
You don't have to open settings. You can ask in any chat:
- "Forget that I work at Acme": the assistant permanently deletes the stored memories that closely match what you described and tells you exactly which facts it forgot. The match is deliberately strict: if nothing matches closely enough, nothing is deleted and it tells you so. Be specific, and if a related memory survives, ask again with more precise wording.
- "Delete all my memories": the assistant asks you to confirm in the conversation first. Once you clearly confirm, it wipes everything stored and reports how many memories were deleted.
These show up as steps in the chat like other memory actions: Forgot: … for a specific request, or Forgot all memories for a full wipe.
Deleting everything
The Danger Zone at the bottom of the page has Delete All, which permanently removes every stored memory after a confirmation. You can do the same from chat: ask the assistant to delete all your memories and confirm when it asks.
Turning memory off
Flip the Enable memory toggle off at Settings → Memory. PrivateMind stops forming new memories. Anything already stored stays until you delete it, so switch off and Delete All if you want a clean slate.
Where next
- Chat: the conversation surface where memory is used.
- Conversation history: find, rename, and manage past chats.
- Account settings: the rest of your personal settings.
