If you’ve ever opened a new FlyerGPT chat and typed “I’m a faculty member, I teach undergrads, and I like short bulleted answers” for the fifth time, this update is for you.
FlyerGPT now has Memory. It picks up key details from your chats and uses them to tailor future responses to you. Think of it as the difference between meeting a new coworker every morning and working with one who remembers how you like things done.
What Memory Remembers
You can see exactly what FlyerGPT has learned about you under Account Settings > Memory, which has three parts:
- Your Profile Summary: a short summary built from your past chats.
- Facts & Preferences: specific details FlyerGPT holds onto, such as your preferences, requirements, and decisions you’ve made.
- Conversational Context & Episodes: topics from your recent conversations. Each topic is removed automatically 90 days after a chat last added to it, so old threads don’t follow you around forever.
Your Memory Is Private to You
This is the question we hear most, so let’s be direct: your memories belong to you alone.
- Not shared. What FlyerGPT learns from your chats is not shared with other users.
- Not available to others. Other users cannot see or browse your Memory. The only place it appears is your own Account Settings.
- No influence on anyone else’s chats. Your memories shape only your own responses. Nothing you tell FlyerGPT shows up in someone else’s conversations, and nothing they tell it shows up in yours.
Every person has their own separate Memory, built only from their own chats. Shared chats and incognito chats are never used to build it, so sharing a conversation with a colleague does not add anything to either of your Memories.
Why It Matters
- Less re-explaining. Your role, your audience, your formatting preferences, and the decisions you’ve already made carry over from chat to chat.
- Better first answers. Responses start closer to what you need, which means fewer follow-up corrections.
- Continuity for ongoing work. If you’re partway through a course redesign or a recurring departmental report, FlyerGPT keeps some of the thread without you pasting it in again.
You’re in Control
Memory only works if you can trust it, so the controls are plain:
- Turn it off any time. The Generate Memory From Chats switch is on by default. Switch it off, and FlyerGPT stops creating new memories. Chats you have while it’s off are never used, even if you turn it back on later.
- Clear it. Clear all memory deletes your profile summary, facts, preferences, and conversational memories. After that, FlyerGPT learns only from new chats.
- Export it. Export Data downloads everything FlyerGPT remembers about you as a text file.
- Incognito and shared chats are never used. If a conversation shouldn’t shape future ones, start an incognito chat.
One detail worth knowing: turning the switch off stops new learning, but FlyerGPT keeps using what it has already learned until you select Clear all memory. If you want a clean break, turn it off and clear it.
Memory, Skills, and Projects: Which One Do I Use?
If you read our post on Skills and Projects, you may be wondering how Memory fits in. They overlap a little, but they do different jobs:
- Memory is automatic and personal. FlyerGPT works out what is worth remembering about you.
- Skills are deliberate. You write the instructions, and they apply the way you specified.
- Projects are a workspace. They hold the files and standing instructions for one initiative.
Memory fills the gap for the things you’d never think to write down. For anything that has to be consistent every time, like a grading rubric or a required report format, a Skill is still the more dependable choice. Memory is handy, but it’s no substitute for writing down the things that really matter.
A Few Good Habits
- Check what it learned. Memory is a summary built from your chats, so it can occasionally be incomplete or off. A quick look under Account Settings > Memory every so often is worth it.
- Keep sensitive details out of chat in the first place. Memory doesn’t change what is appropriate to put into FlyerGPT.
- Use incognito for one-off or sensitive questions. Those chats are never used for memory.
Try it yourself: open ONEchat, then go to Account Settings > Memory and see what FlyerGPT already knows about you. Delete or adjust anything that doesn’t look right.
Availability
Memory is available in FlyerGPT now. Look for it under Account Settings > Memory.
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