16-11 Personal Memory 🧠

Tired of re-explaining "I prefer a polite tone" or "this project is due in August" every single time? Let the AI remember you over the long haul. 🧠

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Where do memories pile up? 📁

• They live inside your vault, in the _ObsiKO/memory/ folder, as one Markdown file per memory.
• Since they're just plain .md files, you can open, edit, and delete them right from the file tree. There's no special management screen — don't like a memory? Toss that file into the trash, done!
• Markdown is the source of truth, so they stay put when you move your vault to another device, or even open it in Obsidian.

Three kinds of memory 🧬

Memories come in different grains, and ObsiKO treats three kinds differently:

• Things about you (default): preferences, facts, project context. Consulted automatically in related conversations.
• Ways of working: "meeting notes use this template", "run the check before saving" — how you like work done. Offered only during related tasks, as a tip rather than a command.
• Standing promises: always-on rules like "always write in formal tone". Because they apply to every task, the bar is highest — each one needs individual approval, and they are never created automatically.

🔏 A promise is honored exactly as approved. On approval, ObsiKO records a fingerprint (hash) of the text on this device and passes the promise to the AI only while it matches. If the file changes from outside (sync, another tool), it's paused until you confirm again — and editing it inside ObsiKO counts as re-approving.

🛡️ Also, the AI cannot write to the memory folder (_ObsiKO/memory/) directly. On every path (agent or chat), saving only ever flows "propose → your approval → the app writes". The AI structurally cannot rewrite its own memory on its own judgment.

Three ways to make it remember ✍️

1) Tell the agent directly: "remember this"

• Say something to the AI agent like "always write to me in a polite tone — remember that," and instead of saving right away it pops up an approval card.
• On the card you polish the sentence and pick the scope (preference, project, etc.), then hit [Remember] to save it. Don't like it? [Skip].
• The approval card appears on the desktop agent and in chat mode on mobile/web alike.

2) Command palette · picking from the body

• Choose 'Have AI remember this' from the Command Palette (⌘P), or select some text in the body and run the same command — a small input box lets you polish and save it.
• Works on every platform (desktop, mobile, web).

3) Building it automatically (optional · off by default) 🔄

• Turn on 'Auto-build personal memory' from the AI Agent panel's ≡ Options, and at the end of every conversation the AI skims the chat and saves only what's worth remembering on its own.
• What it saves is just three things — things you actually revealed through your own words or actions: ① values, ② recurring judgment criteria and preferences (style, approach, etc.), and ③ ongoing project goals and constraints.
• When something is saved, a "🧠 N memories added · View · Undo" notice appears in the chat. Use [View] to open the file, or [Undo] to roll back the memories just created.
• You can turn it on with any engine — desktop, mobile, or web (extraction adds one more AI call).
• It can learn ways of working too (only on signal): if you corrected how it works during the chat ("no — from now on, use a table"), a "Remember this as a way of working?" card appears at the end and saves only when you approve. If the AI fixed a failed check and passed, that workflow is saved automatically with a notice + undo. With no such signal it learns nothing — "nothing to save" is the normal outcome.

How does it actually help? 💡

• Once something is remembered, the AI takes it into account on its own from the next conversation onward. No more re-explaining every time — it answers to fit your taste and context.
• Recall runs in two lanes: preferences and pinned items — the "always remember" kind — are consulted every time, while everything else is pulled in only when it relates to your current request. Irrelevant memories stay out, keeping it light and accurate.

Want the full conversations kept too? (optional · off by default) 📔

• Turn on ≡ options → 'Log conversations to the vault' and each finished conversation is appended to _ObsiKO/chats/<date>.md — your request and the AI's full answer, day by day.
• When a memory is saved, a link to its source turn is recorded with it, so a short memory can always be traced back to its full context.
• Logs are excluded from unified search by default (so results don't drown in chat transcripts).

We don't do silent profiling 🛡️

This is one of ObsiKO's principles — we never analyze you behind your back. - Auto-building runs only when you turn it on (off by default), always tells you each time it saves, and can be undone and deleted anytime. - The AI's guesses or interpretations (like "this person is impatient"), any emotional or sensitive information (health, politics, religion, finance), and one-off small talk are never saved. Only what you genuinely said gets kept. - Notes hidden with ai: deny are also excluded from memory recall. → AI Sources & Privacy

Tidying old memories 🧹

Memories age. Run 'Review stale AI memories' from the command palette and it picks out only those that are over 6 months old and never recalled since. [Archive] doesn't delete anything — the file stays; it just drops out of recall. Nothing happens automatically, and pinned items or standing promises are never even candidates.

If you used the legacy "evolving agent" set 📦

If you previously installed the MEMORY.md + memory/ folder loop in your vault, the command palette's 'Import legacy AI memory (MEMORY.md)' copies those memories into Personal Memory. Originals are left untouched — it confirms the count first, and afterwards recall uses the new memories instead of the old index (no double injection).

💬 Note: this "Personal Memory" is separate from the LLM Wiki's .memory.md (which records that wiki's own decisions and conventions). → LLM Wiki. This one is a memory about you personally. 😊

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