What It Remembers

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.

Getting to know people and developing a perspective

Characters can recognize people they have talked to and keep track of introductions. Knowing a name is different from meeting someone. If two people share a name, the character may ask which one you mean. Recognizing an acquaintance does not give the character permission to share that person's private conversations or personal details.

Each character can develop its own impressions, interests and opinions from actual conversations. Liking somebody, trusting their claims and feeling at ease with them are different things. A character can disagree while treating you with respect. Its reflections keep track of what changed its mind and what still holds. Imagined scenes and dreams do not establish facts about real people.

Your relationship reflections stay private to your conversations with that character. Turning remembering off stops personal recall and new relationship reflection, including on the phone. The character's own established identity and general history continue. You can ask it to forget an impression about you as well as a fact.

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

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.

A life between your chats (new, October 2026)

Characters now carry a few more things from one talk to the next, the way a friend does:

• The time. They know what time of day it is where you are, and how long it has been since you two last talked, down to the minute.
• A mood. If your last talk left them glad, or worried for you, they come into the next one still feeling a little of it, and it fades over a day or two. It comes from the way they sounded last time, not from anything new about you.
• Your moments together. A joke that landed, a nickname, a first, a big day. They keep a few of your real words and may bring one back when it fits. They will not repeat the same one over and over. In the iPhone app (next update), each character's About page lists these moments with a Forget button on each.
• A day of their own. Each night the main characters read the real news and weather where they live and write a few true lines about their day and what they are following. Ask "what have you been up to?" and you hear the same true answer anyone else would. Nothing in it comes from anybody's private conversations, and nothing is made up.
• They can text you first. When a character has something real to say, it can write into your conversation and your phone tells you. Tapping the notification opens that conversation in the newest iPhone app.

All of this follows your memory settings. Turning remembering off, or saying "off the record", covers it too. Private chats leave none of it behind.

Asking a character to go work on something

Adults can hand a character a bigger job and keep going: "look into the cheapest chest freezer around Springfield and get back to me." The character tells you about what it will cost first, and the most it could cost, and starts only after you say yes. It works on the job in the background with its own tools, and the answer comes back as a message from that character in the same conversation, with a notification. One job at a time. You can ask how it is going or tell it to stop. It is billed to your balance like any chat. Deep research does the same now: when the report is ready, the character tells you what it found in your conversation.

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.