Memory
What Actovia remembers about you, how it uses it, and how to correct it.
The more you talk to Actovia, the better it knows you. It keeps a short, tidy memory of lasting things — your setup, your projects, the people you mention, preferences that hold — and brings the relevant bits into a chat when they help. Everything stays on your computer.
How memories are kept
Memory is organised by subject: one entry per topic or person, each with a title, a one-line summary and a few details. Entries are grouped as You, Topics and People.
- As you say it. State a lasting fact ("I've switched to Linux") and the model updates its memory right then. A strip at the foot of the answer says Memory updated · Linux setup; open it to see the entry before and after, and Undo if it got it wrong.
- After a conversation. With Capture memories on, Actovia reads each finished conversation and folds what is worth keeping into your memory — updating an entry it already has rather than adding a duplicate, correcting one that has changed, and switching off one that no longer holds.
- One-off details ("I watched a film yesterday") are not kept.
How memories are used
With Use memory in chats on, Actovia picks the entries relevant to each message and gives them to the model with it. The answer says so at its foot: Used 2 memories · Classical Music, Home studio. Open it to see which, and click Wrong? beside one to correct it in the chat — the composer is filled in for you and Actovia updates the entry.
Settings → Memory
- Capture memories and Use memory in chats switch the two halves on and off.
- Stored memories lists every entry. Open one to edit its title, summary and details, Disable it, or delete it. Entries the background pass switched off wait under Disabled, where Restore brings them back.
- The box at the foot takes plain instructions: "Tell the assistant what to remember…", or "change my editor to Zed", "forget the Berlin trip".
The same page holds the settings for long conversations.