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Memory & profile

Lino AI keeps notes across chats so you don't have to repeat yourself. There are two kinds: Canvas memory, which belongs to one Canvas, and saved memories, which follow you everywhere. You can read and edit both, and import what another AI already knows about you.

Canvas memory

Each Canvas also has its own memory — what it's for, progress, and rules for working on it. See Canvas Memory.

Saved memories (about you)

Saved memories are facts and preferences that hold everywhere — on every Canvas and in every chat. Each one has a kind, shown as an icon:

  • About you — something true about you ("I teach high-school biology").
  • Preference — how you want Lino AI to work ("I like short, direct answers").
  • Reference — a resource you pointed it at.

See and edit them

Open Settings → Memory. Under Saved memories — Facts and preferences Lino AI carries across every canvas. Edit or remove anything here.:

  • Click an entry's text to edit it.
  • Remove an entry with its remove button.
  • Add your own in the box at the bottom ("I like short, direct answers") and press ↵ or Save.
  • Suggested to remember — things Lino AI thinks are worth keeping, waiting for you. Press Remember to keep one, or dismiss it.
  • Tidy — merges entries that say the same thing.

Memory holds up to 80 entries of up to 280 characters each. When it is full (Memory is full. Remove something to make room.), remove or tidy something first.

How memories get written

Lino AI saves very little mid-chat — only what you ask it to remember in so many words ("remember that I prefer metric units"). The rest is picked out once a chat is over (after a few minutes of quiet, or when you switch chats), and only from chats where you wrote at least three messages yourself. That pass is fenced in:

  • Only your own messages are read — never Lino AI's replies, so it can't learn from its own guesses.
  • Every entry must quote you. An entry whose evidence can't be found word for word in what you wrote is dropped.
  • Nothing that looks like a password or key is kept.

Tidying

When the list grows past a dozen entries, at most once a day, a tidy pass merges duplicates into one. It only sees the entries (never a chat), and it can only merge entries that exist — it tidies but can't invent. Press Tidy to run it yourself; the merged originals stay viewable under the entry.

Import memory from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini

If another AI already knows you, bring that knowledge in instead of starting from zero.

  1. Open Settings → Memory (or Settings → Import, section AI) and press Start import under Import memory from other AI providers.
  2. Copy the prompt shown in step 1.
  3. Paste it into a chat with your other AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or another) and send it. It answers with what it knows about you.
  4. Copy its whole answer and paste it into step 2 (Paste your memory details here).
  5. Press Add to memory.

Lino AI checks each memory against what you pasted and saves the ones that hold up. You see the steps as it goes — Analyzing what you pasted, Checking each memory against your paste, Saving to memory — plus Making room in memory first if the list is nearly full. The result says how many were added (and how many didn't fit). If the other AI said there was more, ask it to continue and import the rest the same way.

Each import is listed afterwards with Remove what this import added, which takes back exactly those memories.

Who-I-Am

Settings → Personalization → Who-I-Am is a short survey — your roles, languages, time zone and how you like to work — so Lino AI can help in a way that fits you. Press Start survey; afterwards the section shows How Lino AI sees you, and you can Retake survey at any time.

On the same page you can name your agent: Your agent → Name (or Generate one).

Turn memory off

Settings → Memory → Generate memory from chats — Let Lino AI save what it learns as you chat — about you, and about each canvas. When off, it still uses what's already saved. Turning it off stops new saved memories and new Canvas memory from chats. To stop it from using a memory, remove that entry.

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