How to Use Cordary's Memory: What It Saves and How to Control It

Cordary's memory lets it keep a few short notes about you between chats, so you don't have to explain yourself every time. It's small on purpose, it's visible, and you control all of it.

This guide shows how to teach Cordary something, how to see what it kept, and how to change your mind. You can read it in order, or jump to what you need.

What memory is, in one minute

• Cordary can save short notes about you, one sentence each. For example: "Runs a casual astronomy club," "Prefers short, easy-to-scan replies," or "Names channels lowercase, with one emoji."
• It uses them to fit its replies and drafts to you in your later chats. It doesn't use them for anything else.
• Every note is shown to you when it's saved, and you can see, forget or switch off all of them.
• Memory is part of Cordary's own chat. An AI agent you connect yourself doesn't read or write it.

If you don't see Memory in your account menu yet, it hasn't reached your account. Everything below applies once it has.

Step 1: Tell Cordary something worth remembering

Just say it in a chat, in your own words. Cordary saves a note when you ask it to remember something, or when you plainly state something about yourself or how you always want things done.

Good things to share:

• Who you are. "I run a small astronomy club." "I'm a community manager at a game studio." "I'm new to Discord."
• Your style. "I like lowercase channel names with one emoji." "Keep posts friendly and short."
• How you work. "Always ask before deleting a channel." "Keep your replies short."

Or say it directly: "Remember that I like lowercase channel names."

Some tips:

• Say it about you, not about one request. "Make this channel private" is a job for now. "I'm new to Discord, so explain permissions as I go" will matter later.
• For one server only? Say so. "This server is for work, so keep things formal." A note about one server is used only in chats about that server. Otherwise, it applies to every chat.
• One idea per sentence. Notes are short: 160 characters at most.
• You don't need to say it twice. If Cordary already remembers it, it won't add a copy.

Step 2: Read the line above the reply

When Cordary changes memory, it tells you in a line above its reply, in the app's own words. You'll see one of these:

You'll see	It means
Remembered: "…"	A new note was saved. If it's for one server, the line says "Remembered for server name."
Updated memory: "…"	A note was changed, for example because a preference of yours changed.
Forgot a memory.	A note was removed because you asked.
Didn't save this to memory.	Cordary tried to save something and wasn't allowed to. See what it never saves.
Memory is full.	You have 24 notes. Forget one to make room.

On a Remembered line you can press Undo to forget the note right away, or Memory to open the Memory window. Cordary never says in its reply that it saved something, so this line is the one place to look.

Cordary saves at most two changes in a single reply, and in almost every reply it saves nothing.

Step 3: Open the Memory window

1. Open the account menu at the bottom of the sidebar.
2. Choose Memory.

At the top you'll see a counter, like 4/24, and the note: "Saved by Cordary from your chats. Only you see these, and Cordary uses them only in your chats."

Below that, your memories are listed one per line, each with a coloured dot:

• About you: your role, why you run the server, how experienced you are.
• Style: naming, emoji, tone.
• How you work: how you like to work with Cordary.

Use the tabs to show All or one kind, with a count on each. The list has two parts: All servers ("In every chat") first, then a section for each server that has its own notes ("Only in this server's chats").

Press a line to open it. You'll see the full text, its kind, which chat it came from, and the date. Pressing the chat's name opens that chat. If the chat has been deleted, it says "from a deleted chat."

Step 4: Forget something

You have four ways to forget.

• The bin. Press the bin beside a memory and confirm. On a touch screen, open the memory first and the bin appears.
• Undo. On a Remembered line, press Undo right after it's saved.
• Ask in a chat. Say "forget that I run a casual club" and Cordary removes it. You'll see Forgot a memory. above its reply.
• Forget all. At the bottom of the Memory window, press Forget all, then Forget all and the number to confirm. Press Cancel or Esc to back out.

Forgetting is permanent. If you change your mind later, you can tell Cordary again.

If a preference changes, you don't have to forget the old note first. Just tell Cordary the new one, and it updates the note instead of adding a second one.

Can I edit a memory myself?

No. Only Cordary writes memories, based on what you say in a chat. You can read them, forget them, and switch memory off. To fix a note, tell Cordary what's right, or forget it and say it again.

Step 5: Use the two switches

At the top of the Memory window:

• Use in chats decides whether Cordary uses your memories at all. Off means it ignores them in every chat.
• Save new decides whether it adds notes. Off means it keeps what it has but saves nothing new.

Save new needs Use in chats. Turning Use off also turns Save off, and you can't turn Save on while Use is off.

Switching changes things from the next reply. Your memories stay in the list either way until you forget them.

What Cordary never saves

Cordary's instructions forbid saving the following. On top of that, the server itself refuses anything that looks like a link or a secret, or that asks to skip review.

• Anything it read in your server, in a template, or from its own tools. A note comes only from what you said.
• Anything about other people.
• Links, invites, tokens, keys or other secrets. The save is refused if the text looks like one.
• Sensitive details, such as health, religion, politics or sexuality. If you give a sensitive reason for a preference, only the preference is saved.
• Details of a single request, which won't matter in a later chat.
• A wish to skip review. Every change Cordary makes still goes through your review, and a note can't turn that off.

Every note is also run through Cordary's content check. If the text is flagged, or the check can't run, it isn't saved, and you'll see Didn't save this to memory.

What memory never does

• It never overrides you. If a memory and your message disagree, Cordary does what you ask now.
• It never decides who can see or post anywhere. Access follows your server as it is.
• It never beats your server's own style. A remembered naming style is only for servers without one. If a server's channels already follow a pattern, Cordary matches the server.
• It's never shown to anyone else. Other people never see your memories, including other admins of the same server.

Privacy and where your memories go

• Stored for you only. Memories are kept in your account, and only you can see them.
• Sent to the AI that writes the draft. When memory is on, the memories that apply to a chat go to Cordary's AI provider with the conversation, the same way your messages do.
• Not used to profile you. Our activity logs record only counts and settings, such as how many memories were saved, never the text.
• Kept until you forget them. Deleting a chat keeps what was remembered in it, without the link back to the chat. A server's own memories are deleted with that server's data. Deleting your account deletes all of them.

Our privacy policy covers this in full.

Troubleshooting

I don't see Memory in the account menu. It hasn't reached your account yet.

Cordary didn't remember what I said. It saves only when you ask it to remember, or state something lasting about yourself or how you work. Check that Save new is on, and that memory isn't full. A note with a link or a secret, or one the content check flags, is refused.

Cordary isn't using my memories in this chat. New memories apply from your next chat. Also check that Use in chats is on.

The Memory window says "Couldn't load your memories." Press Try again.

A memory is wrong. Forget it, or tell Cordary what's right in a chat.

I want a clean slate. Press Forget all, or switch Use in chats off.

Quick checklist

• Tell Cordary how you work, in a chat, in your own words.
• Read the line above its reply, and press Undo on anything you don't want.
• Open Memory in the account menu to see everything.
• Forget what's out of date, or tell Cordary the new preference.
• Check the two switches match what you want.

A short memory, a short leash

Memory should save you time, not surprise you. Cordary keeps a few notes, shows you each one and leaves the decision about every one of them to you.

For what changed and why, read the update, Cordary now remembers how you like to work. To see how Cordary builds a server from a sentence, try How to build a Discord server with AI.