How-to guide · Memory tab Open the Memory tab

Surfacememory tab
Audience Privacy Cognitive
Time Under 5 seconds
Permissions None — everything you see is read from your phone
What this is: The Memory tab is the one place to see everything Aside has learned about you. It opens as a bottom sheet over the orb and groups what it knows into four plain-language categories — About you, People, Routines, and Sensitive. Anything Aside has heard you say that it thought worth keeping shows up here, with a per-row Forget button next to it. Nothing in this tab leaves your phone.
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Open Aside. At the bottom of the screen there’s a row of four small mono pills — history, type, ear, and memory. Tap the rightmost one:

memory

The Memory tab slides up over the orb, listing every fact Aside has saved, grouped by category. Tap anywhere outside the sheet (or press Back) to close it.

Step by step

  1. Open Aside

    Tap the Aside icon, or use your assist gesture if you’ve set Aside as your default assistant. Aside opens to the orb in its idle state — calm, slowly breathing — with the prompt “Tell me everything,” beneath it.

    The Aside main screen at idle on a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. Across the top: the word ‘Aside’ with a red dot, a small mono status pill reading ‘● IDLE’, a small cost counter ‘$5.953 today’, and a ‘NEW’ link top-right. Centered in the screen is a large warm-paper-colored orb with a soft brown core, slowly breathing. Below the orb, in large bold type: ‘Tell me everything,’. Below that, in lighter type: ‘Tap the orb or type below.’. Below that, a clay-red ‘Make Aside my assistant’ CTA. Near the bottom is a row of four mono pills: ‘history’, ‘type’, ‘muted’, ‘memory · 4’ (the rightmost pill shows a candidate count). The very bottom shows the build-identity line.
    Aside open at idle. The four pills along the bottom are how you reach every panel; memory is the rightmost one.

  2. Tap the ‘memory’ pill

    Find the bottom toolbar — history, type, ear, memory — and tap the memory pill on the right. The Memory tab slides up as a bottom sheet, dimming the orb behind a soft scrim. If Aside has any candidates waiting for you to review, the pill is shown in the accent color as a quiet nudge; if not, it’s the same calm tone as its neighbors.

    The Aside main screen with the Memory bottom sheet open. The lower two-thirds of the screen is the Memory tab; behind a soft scrim the orb is dimmed and faintly visible above. The top of the sheet shows the eyebrow ‘MEMORY LEDGER’ above the heading ‘What I remember’, with a clay-red ‘Forget all’ pill button at the right of the header row. Below the header, a footnote reads ‘Lives only on your phone. Never sent to a server except inside a single turn — and then never logged.’. Below that the first category section is visible: eyebrow ‘ROUTINES’, heading ‘Routines’, then the first saved row ‘User has a dentist appointment on Friday at 2pm’ with a clay-red ‘Forget’ pill on the right.
    The Memory tab slides up as a bottom sheet over the orb.

  3. Read the four categories

    Once the sheet has settled, you see what Aside has learned, grouped into four plain-language sections in the same order every time:

    • About you — preferences, favorites, where you live, what you do.
    • People — names of friends, family, colleagues you’ve mentioned.
    • Routines — the regular patterns of your day — bedtimes, work hours, weekly habits.
    • Sensitive — health, finance, legal. Aside only saves into this category when you say the word remember on purpose.

    Each row inside a section shows an eyebrow label (FAVOURITE COLOUR, EMPLOYER, …), the value in plain English, and a small Forget button on the right. Empty categories show their heading with no rows beneath; nothing is hidden.

    The Memory tab fully open. The eyebrow ‘MEMORY LEDGER’ sits above the heading ‘What I remember’, with a clay-red ‘Forget all’ pill button on the right of the header row. Below the header, a footnote reads ‘Lives only on your phone. Never sent to a server except inside a single turn — and then never logged.’. The first visible section has the eyebrow ‘ROUTINES’ and heading ‘Routines’, with rows such as ‘User has a dentist appointment on Friday at 2pm’ and ‘user’s favorite color is teal’ — each row carries its own clay-red ‘Forget’ pill on the right.
    Four categories: About you, People, Routines, Sensitive. Each row has a per-row Forget. Top-bar Forget all wipes everything (with a separate guide).

  4. Close the sheet when you’re done

    Press the system Back button (or tap the dimmed orb area above the sheet) to slide the Memory tab back down. The orb returns to idle behind it. Nothing has changed unless you tapped Forget on a specific row.

    The Aside main screen back at idle on the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. The Memory bottom sheet is gone; the orb is centered, breathing, with ‘Tell me everything,’ beneath it and the hint ‘Tap the orb or type below.’ underneath. The four bottom pills — ‘history’, ‘type’, ‘muted’, ‘memory · 4’ — are visible again. Status pill at the top reads ‘● IDLE’ with the cost counter ‘$5.953 today’ alongside.
    Sheet closed; back at idle. The Memory tab is purely read unless you tap a Forget button.
Where these facts came from: Some you’ll have taught Aside on purpose with the word remember. Others were extracted automatically from things you said in conversation — Aside calls these candidates and shows them at the top of the Memory tab in their own RECENTLY LEARNED · REVIEW section until you Keep or Forget each one. See the candidate-review guide for that flow.
What is — and isn’t — sent off-device: Everything in the Memory tab lives in encrypted local storage on your phone. On every turn, Aside ships a small slice up to the model so it can answer in context, and the server discards it as soon as the turn is done; nothing is logged with the contents intact. If you’d rather a fact never go in that slice again, forget that row.