How-to guide · Memory tab Forget everything

Actionforget all
Audience Privacy
Time Under 10 seconds
Permissions None
What this is: A single-tap reset of everything Aside has learned about you. The button lives at the top of the Memory tab, labeled simply Forget all. Tapping it deletes every row in every category — About you, People, Routines, Sensitive, and any candidates pending review — from your phone’s on-device store. Because Aside’s server never persists your memory in the first place, there is nothing else to clean up; one tap and you’re back to a blank slate.
Read this carefully before you tap

This action is permanent and immediate. There is no “are you sure?” popup — we treat the choice to visit the button (open the Memory tab, find the top-bar action, aim for it) as the deliberation. If you want a backup before wiping, export your memory first (see note below).

tap ‘Forget all’ — everything goes

Step by step

  1. Open the Memory tab

    From the main Aside screen, tap the memory pill at the bottom-right of the screen. The Memory tab slides up over the orb. (Walk-through of this step lives in the Memory tab overview.)

    The Memory tab open as a bottom sheet on the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, with the dimmed orb visible behind the scrim above. 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. The footnote reads ‘Lives only on your phone. Never sent to a server except inside a single turn — and then never logged.’. The first visible category section is ‘ROUTINES / Routines’ with two rows — ‘User has a dentist appointment on Friday at 2pm’ and ‘User’s favorite season is autumn.’ — each with its own clay-red ‘Forget’ pill on the right.
    Memory tab open. The top of the sheet is where the Forget all action lives.

  2. Find the ‘Forget all’ button at the top

    Look at the very top of the Memory tab, on the right edge of the page header row. You’ll see a small pill-shaped button rendered in the accent clay-red color, labeled Forget all. It’s deliberately not the same shape or color as the per-row Forget buttons — it’s the one button on the screen that wipes everything, so it’s drawn distinctly.

    The same Memory tab view. On the left of the sheet header, the eyebrow ‘MEMORY LEDGER’ above the heading ‘What I remember’. On the right edge of the same header row, a pill-shaped button rendered in clay-red border with clay-red text reading ‘Forget all’. The accent color distinguishes this top-bar button from the smaller, paper-colored per-row Forget buttons further down the sheet (one per saved row in the Routines section visible below). Post-processing crops to the top of the sheet to highlight the affordance.
    The Forget all affordance, rendered in the accent color to mark it as a standing-out action.

  3. Tap it — everything goes

    Tap the Forget all button. Every row in every category — including any candidates — is deleted from the on-device store immediately. The Memory tab redraws into its empty state: the page header “MEMORY LEDGER” remains, beneath it a single message reads “Nothing remembered yet.”, with a softer hint line below: “Just talk to Aside — anything important will land here automatically.” No category sections, no rows, and no Forget all button (it disappears when there is nothing left to forget).

    No screenshot of this state: We don’t ship a captured screenshot for the post-tap empty state, because producing it would mean wiping a real test device’s memory store. The description above is the canonical reference. The capture pipeline deliberately refuses to tap Forget all on any device that isn’t already empty.

  4. Carry on or close

    Press the system Back button to slide the Memory tab back down. Aside returns to idle — orb breathing in the center, the prompt “Tell me everything,” beneath it, the bottom row of pills (history / type / muted / memory) at the foot. Aside is now operating from a blank slate — the next time it answers a question, it has no facts about you in its context. As you talk to Aside again, candidates will reappear in the Memory tab, and you can keep or forget each one as it arrives.

Back up first if you want a copy: Settings » Memory has an Export memory option that writes an encrypted .aside-memory file to a location you choose — useful if you’re moving phones, troubleshooting, or just want a snapshot before a clean-up. The file is AES-encrypted with a passphrase you set; nobody but you can read it. Export, then come back and Forget all.
There is no “are you sure?”: We deliberately don’t pop a confirmation dialog. The deliberation cost is in getting to the button — opening the Memory tab, scrolling to the top, aiming for the accent-colored pill. Once you tap, the rows are gone. There is also no undo, no trash, and no copy on a server — that’s the whole privacy posture. If you’re even a little unsure, forget rows one at a time instead.