What It Remembers

It can remember helpful things about you over time — but it's not reading your mind. Here's the honest version.

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Kade-AI has a memory feature. Over time, it holds onto useful facts you've shared, so you don't have to repeat yourself in every new chat.

Memory cards — each thing it remembers is its own small card, one topic per card: "has a dog named Biscuit," "hates cilantro," "going to the Shinedown show in July." Like a friend remembering the gist of you, not a recording of everything you've ever said. Each card can be looked at, fixed, or thrown out on its own.

Coming over from ChatGPT? Bring your memories along

Sources and corrections: open this link on a memory card to inspect its recorded conversations and correct selected related cards. Older memories without source evidence say so. To exclude a saved chat from future remembering, open Memory controls in its web chat header. This blocks new memory writes from that conversation and recall of cards, diary entries and summaries with that recorded source. The conversation remains saved. Untraceable older memories need to be reviewed separately; the control cannot infer missing history.

If ChatGPT already knows you, you don't have to start from scratch here. Go to kademurdock.com/import and either paste the memory list ChatGPT kept about you (ask it: "list everything you remember about me"), or upload your ChatGPT export zip. Your facts become normal memory cards — yours to hear, fix, or delete like any other — and if you tick the box, your old conversations get read into your logbook too, dated to the days they really happened. The only thing that reads any of it is the same memory keeper that listens here every day.

What it tends to remember

  • Preferences you mention ("I like things explained simply").
  • The people, pets, and goings-on in your life that come up naturally.
  • Ongoing stuff — a project, a health thing, plans — so next time it can just ask how it went.

The Logbook: the long story of you

Your Logbook — beside the cards, every companion keeps a dated logbook of your day-to-day: what happened, how it went, the rabbit holes you went down together. Cards hold who you ARE; the logbook holds what HAPPENED — and it has no size limit, because it stays on the shelf until a moment calls for it. Ask "what was I up to last week?" or "have I mentioned that before?" and your companion checks the real entries. Old moments also drift back naturally when they fit — the way a friend goes "wait, didn't you say…" Browse it all under You → Your Logbook: every entry by date, who holds it, a Forget button on each, and a box to add a line yourself. Same privacy as cards: an entry belongs to the companion you told. Saying "off the record" asks the AI not to save that stretch in cards, the logbook, or relationship reflections. This relies on the AI following the request; it does not stop the chat from being stored. For a direct control, turn remembering off in your memory settings. That stops automatic memory use and updates, but does not delete your chat history or previously saved memories.

How memories come to mind (new, August 2026)

Between chats, each companion also keeps a short account of what's been happening between you, things you've taught them, and questions still open. The nightly update reads new activity across your separate chats in date order, so a correction in another chat has a chance to catch up. A plan stays a plan until someone says what happened. Time away no longer erases this history. Turning memory off in your personalization settings also stops this relationship reflection from being read or updated.

Your companions used to carry every single card into every single message, whether it mattered or not. Now they hold onto the essentials constantly — who you are, your people, how you like to be spoken to, anything you asked to be reminded of — and the rest of what they know comes to mind when it's relevant, the way a friend's memory actually works. Mention repainting a room and the color you love surfaces; talk about dinner and it stays out of the way. Nothing was deleted; it's all still theirs to remember — it just stops crowding the conversation. Every companion works this way.

And the memory does a little connecting of its own now: if separate notes clearly belong together — a nephew here, his mom named over there — the notes get introduced to each other. Every one of those tidy-ups is kept on a trail, nothing is ever silently lost, and you can always ask any companion "what changed in your memory lately?" and hear it read back plainly.

Two kinds of cards: shared, and just-between-you-two

  • Shared cards are the basics every character should know — your name, your people, how you like to be talked to. Tell one character, they all catch up.
  • A character's own cards belong to that one character alone. Inside jokes, story and roleplay threads, promises they made you — another character can't see those, so every relationship stays its own thing.

Really long single conversations

Separate from memory cards: within one conversation, a character can only hold so many recent messages in its attention at once. In very long chats the earliest messages used to simply fall out of reach — the "did you forget what we talked about an hour ago?" feeling. Now, when a conversation gets near that limit, the character first writes itself a compact "story so far" checkpoint — names, promises, running jokes, where things stand — and keeps chatting from that plus the newest messages. Nothing visible is deleted or rewritten: the whole conversation stays right there to scroll, and a small note marks the one spot where the condensing happened. It's automatic and free, and it works on every character, in text chats and voice conversations alike.

Bossing the memory around (just talk to it)

A phone push reminder needs a registered phone. If none is registered, the character will say the reminder was not set and explain how to connect the app. Test and review accounts do not send phone notifications.

  • "Remember that..." — saves a card, even for little stuff.
  • "Forget about..." — deletes the matching card(s), gone for real.
  • "What do you remember about me?" — it'll tell you, plainly.
  • "Clean up your memory" — it merges duplicates and tightens wordy cards.
  • "Remind me to take my meds at 9" — becomes a real reminder that actually fires. Under your account menu, Notifications & Reminders lets you pick how reminders reach you: quietly at the start of your next chat (free, no permissions), a real push notification on your phone, or an actual phone call from a character. Same page has an optional once-a-year birthday nudge.

What it does NOT do

  • It doesn't memorize every word of every chat, perfectly, forever. It keeps the useful gist — on purpose, so conversations stay quick.
  • It won't share your memory cards with other people on the site. Your account, your cards.

Want to see the cards yourself? Open the side panel in any chat and look for Memories — every card is listed with an edit and a delete button, and cards that belong to one character say so right on them (like "Only Kiana"). If something's wrong or out of date, you can just tell the character instead — "actually, I don't have that dog anymore" — and it updates the card. The system also does its own tidy-up once a week, quietly.