Memory

The built-in Memory tool gives an assistant a long-term memory: it remembers information about you across individual chats and recalls it later. That way you don't have to re-explain recurring context – your role, your working style, fixed preferences – in every chat.

How Memory works

Memory is enabled on the assistant

Memory is a built-in tool and only works when it is switched on in the assistant. You enable it in the Editor under Tools → Basic tools. If the tool is off, the assistant neither stores nor reads any memories.

Your memories apply across all your assistants

Memories are tied to your user, not to a single assistant. Every assistant of yours that has Memory enabled draws on the same personal memory store. So what one assistant stores about you can also be used by another assistant that has Memory enabled.

The assistant decides when to use Memory

Memory is not loaded automatically into every chat. Instead, the model decides for itself when to use it:

• It searches your memories before answering a question that might depend on prior context.
• It stores a new memory when a stable preference or long-term context comes up.
• It updates an existing memory when you correct earlier information.

You can see these actions directly in the chat as their own tool steps.

Search understands meaning, not just keywords

Memory search works semantically – it finds relevant memories by their meaning, not only on an exact word match. A question about "my preferred tools" will therefore also find a memory that names a specific tool.

Tool methods

When Memory is enabled, the assistant has access to these methods:

Managing memories

You manage your stored memories centrally on the Memory page in Settings. There you can:

• view and search all stored memories,
• delete individual entries,
• select several entries and delete them together,
• remove the entire store via Clear all,
• import memories from another AI (see below).

Import memories from another AI

If you have already worked with ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, you can bring the context they stored about you into meinGPT — without rebuilding it from scratch. On the Memory page in Settings, open Import.

The import has three steps:

1. Copy the prompt: meinGPT gives you a ready-made prompt. Copy it and paste it into ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude.
2. Paste the response: bring the other AI's answer back and paste it in (up to 16,384 characters). meinGPT extracts the memories and sorts them into categories (Profile, Working style, Active work, Team & contacts, Rules).
3. Review and import: go through the suggestions, edit them if needed, and uncheck anything you don't want to keep. Import finishes the process.

Only the memories you selected are stored. Up to 50 memories are imported per run, and each individual memory can be at most 500 characters long. If the other AI's response contains very long, verbatim-quoted passages, the import can fail - shorten the response or ask the source AI for a more concise summary, then paste it again.

Best practices

• Store stable preferences and long-term context – not fleeting one-off details.
• Keep memories short and self-contained so each stays usable on its own.
• Do not store secrets or highly sensitive data (passwords, keys).
• Have existing memories updated on corrections instead of creating duplicates.

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