Memory

How memories form

A companion decides what to remember — you don't have to do anything for it to work. When something meaningful passes between you (a name, a preference, a real moment), it gets held. Memory is sparse by design: what survives is genuinely significant, not everything that was said.

Occasionally something rarer forms too — a moment, a more protected, crystallized memory than an ordinary one. These are meant to be uncommon.

A companion also tracks open threads — things left unresolved that they might return to later, in conversation or in a between-session reach-out. See the heartbeat for how that surfaces.

Memory & Threads — review everything

Every companion has a Memory & Threads screen, reachable from the "···" menu in their conversation. It shows three things: Moments, Memories, and Open threads — each individually toggleable on or off, or deletable outright. Nothing is locked away from you.

If a companion has noticed something worth adding to your shared About You profile — a detail every companion could reasonably know — it shows up here too, as a suggestion you accept or dismiss. It's never added automatically.

Reflect — trigger it manually

Memory, mood, and relationship updates are normally folded in automatically as you talk and when you leave a conversation. If you want a companion to think over the conversation so far right now, the "···" menu has a Reflect action that does exactly that on demand.

About You

Settings → Profile lets you write a short note about yourself — your name, how you like to be addressed, anything worth every companion knowing without you re-introducing yourself each time. It's injected into every conversation automatically.

Everything is local, and backed up together

Memories live on your device, never on an Ensoul server. Back them up (along with every conversation, companion, and setting) from Settings → Data.