How-to guide · Memory tab Review what Aside recently learned

Surfacememory candidates
Audience Privacy Cognitive
Time About 20 seconds per candidate
Permissions None — review happens entirely on your phone
What this is: When you say something Aside thinks is worth remembering, it doesn’t commit the fact silently. Instead it parks it as a candidate at the top of the Memory tab, in a section called RECENTLY LEARNED · REVIEW. Each candidate row has two buttons — Keep moves it into the active memory; Forget drops it on the floor. You decide. This is how Aside avoids the “why does it think I live in Toronto” problem most assistants have.
Try it now

Tell Aside something innocuous and watch it land in the review section:

“My favorite season is autumn.”

After Aside replies, open the Memory tab. Within a few seconds the new candidate appears at the top. Tap Keep to promote it into About you, or Forget to throw it away.

Step by step

  1. Say something memorable in conversation

    You don’t need to say the word remember — that’s for facts you want saved straight into active memory. For candidates, just talk. Anything that sounds like a fact about you, a person, or a routine becomes eligible for review. A safe first try is something innocuous like a favorite season or a fictional pet’s name; you can always Forget it after.

    My favorite season is autumn.
    The Aside main screen with the chat history bottom sheet showing the recent exchange. Status pill at the top reads ‘● READY’ alongside the cost counter ‘$5.985 today’. Inside the sheet: a label ‘YOU’ above the line ‘My favorite season is autumn.’; below it a label ‘ASIDE’ above the reply ‘Got it, I’ll remember that.’; below that an ‘ASIDE NOTE’ chip with a small play arrow and the line ‘remembered: favorite_season = autumn’.
    You said something fact-shaped. Aside replied normally. Behind the scenes, Aside is extracting it as a candidate.

  2. Open the Memory tab

    Dismiss the chat history (press Back) and tap the memory pill at the bottom-right of the screen. If a candidate is waiting, the pill itself shows a quiet accent-colored emphasis; the bottom sheet that slides up has a brand-new section pinned at the very top called RECENTLY LEARNED · REVIEW.

    The Memory tab open as a bottom sheet over Aside’s dimmed ambient clock view. At the top of the sheet, the eyebrow ‘MEMORY LEDGER’ sits above the heading ‘What I remember’ with a clay-red ‘Forget all’ pill 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.’. Below that, a clay-red eyebrow ‘RECENTLY LEARNED · REVIEW’ marks a new section containing one candidate row: an eyebrow ‘ROUTINES’, the content ‘User’s favorite season is autumn.’ followed by the original utterance ‘— My favorite season is autumn.’, and on the right two buttons — a green outlined ‘Keep’ button and a clay-red outlined ‘Forget’ button. Below the review section the active ‘ABOUT YOU’ heading begins with the row ‘favorite_season: autumn’.
    The candidate is waiting at the top of the Memory tab with two buttons: Keep and Forget.

  3. Tap ‘Keep’ to promote it

    Tap the Keep button on the candidate row. The row leaves the RECENTLY LEARNED · REVIEW section instantly and reappears under About you, where it will be included in the small slice of memory shipped on every future turn. The phone plays a quiet “memory updated” chime so you have a non-visual confirmation it landed.

    The Memory tab still open over Aside’s dimmed ambient clock view. The ‘RECENTLY LEARNED · REVIEW’ section is gone — no candidates left. Below the ‘Memory ledger / What I remember’ header and footnote, the first visible section is the eyebrow ‘ABOUT YOU’ with the heading ‘About you’, beneath which a single row reads ‘favorite_season: autumn’ with a small annotation ‘— (remember action)’ and a clay-red ‘Forget’ button on the right (no ‘Keep’ button — Keep is only for candidates). Below it the next section ‘ROUTINES / Routines’ begins.
    The candidate has moved into About you and lost its Keep button. Per-row Forget remains in case you change your mind.

  4. Or tap ‘Forget’ to throw it away

    If a candidate isn’t something you want Aside to know, tap Forget on the row instead. The row vanishes immediately — nothing is saved, and Aside won’t suggest the same fact again unless you bring it up again later. You can Forget any saved fact at any time, candidate or not, with the per-row button described in the forget-a-single-row guide.

    The Memory tab still open over Aside’s dimmed ambient clock view. The ‘RECENTLY LEARNED · REVIEW’ section is absent — no candidates pending. The ‘Memory ledger / What I remember’ header sits at the top with the ‘Forget all’ pill on the right and the privacy footnote beneath. The first active section heading ‘ABOUT YOU / About you’ contains the row ‘favorite_season: autumn’ with its per-row ‘Forget’ pill on the right. Below that the next section ‘ROUTINES / Routines’ is visible.
    The review section disappears entirely when nothing is pending. New candidates from later conversations will repopulate it.
Why two-stage and not just-save? Most assistants either save everything (and weird you out when they bring up “your daughter’s name” that they got wrong) or save nothing (and forget what you said three turns ago). Aside’s candidate-then-keep flow lets you decide. After about an hour, candidates auto-promote so the pile doesn’t grow forever — if you don’t want a particular one promoted, Forget it before that.
Sensitive facts always wait for you: Anything Aside detects as health, finance, or legal goes into the Sensitive tier. Sensitive candidates never auto-promote — they sit in review until you explicitly Keep them or until you say the word remember on purpose. This is deliberate; we don’t want a passing comment about a medication ending up in the model’s context without your say-so.