Memory is the part that makes a workspace different from a chat window. What it
learns is written down, filed, and still there next month.

It is not a hidden index. Open **Memory** and you are looking at the same notes
the agent reads when it answers you.

<figure>
  <a href="/docs/workspace/memory.png"><picture>
    <source srcset="/docs/workspace/memory-dark.png" media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)">
    <img src="/docs/workspace/memory.png" alt="The Memory page of a workspace, listing two folders: Concepts with 28 items, and People with 2 items.">
  </picture></a>
  <figcaption><strong>Folders first, then notes.</strong> The tree grows out of the work. A workspace reading company material ends up with folders for people and projects; one reading research ends up with concepts.</figcaption>
</figure>

## What is in there

**Folders** group notes by what they are about. The agent makes them as it goes;
you can ask it to reorganize, split, or rename in chat.

**Notes** are the unit. One note is one thing worth remembering: a person, an
idea, a decision, a document it read. Each is a plain file, so nothing is locked
in a format only we can open.

<figure>
  <a href="/docs/workspace/memory-note.png"><picture>
    <source srcset="/docs/workspace/memory-note-dark.png" media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)">
    <img src="/docs/workspace/memory-note.png" alt="A single memory note. It shows the note's path, its title, a concept tag, a metadata block with created and ingested dates, then the body: a quotation, two paragraphs, and a source line naming where it came from.">
  </picture></a>
  <figcaption><strong>A note carries its provenance.</strong> When it was written, how it got in, and at the bottom, where it came from. That last line is what makes an answer checkable.</figcaption>
</figure>

## How things get in

**You tell it.** Anything you say in chat that is worth keeping, it keeps. "Remember
that Ana runs procurement" is enough.

**It reads what you give it.** Paste a document, drop a file, or point it at a
page and it takes notes on what it read.

**Skills write.** A skill that researches a person or works through an inbox
leaves its findings in memory, so the next run starts from the last one.

**Scheduled work tidies.** Overnight the workspace files what came in, links it
to what it already knew, and cleans up after itself. That is why a workspace you
have been feeding for a month answers better than one you set up yesterday.

## Reading it well

**Ask it to look.** "Search your memory and tell me what we decided about
pricing" beats "what did we decide about pricing." A casual question can get
answered from general knowledge rather than your material, and it sounds equally
confident either way.

**Ask for the note.** An answer it cannot source is an answer you should not
repeat. It will name the note, and you can open it.

**Correct it in chat.** If a note is wrong, say so. It will fix the note, not
just the answer, so the correction survives the conversation.

## Reading it from somewhere else

Memory is not only for chat here. Claude, ChatGPT and OpenClaw can search it and
add to it through one address, with you choosing whether they may write.
[Use your memory from other assistants](/docs/workspace/memory-anywhere).

## What it does not do

Memory is per workspace, and everyone in that workspace sees all of it. There is
no per person view inside one, and no way to hide part of a workspace from
someone who has access to it. If a group should see a different set of material,
[give them their own copy](/docs/workspace/share-a-copy).