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Global Memory

Global Memory is a feature that automatically learns from your conversations over time. It extracts key information about your work, goals, and context — and uses that knowledge to give you more relevant, personalized responses.

How it works​

Once enabled, Kognar runs a background analysis of your recent conversations once per day. It looks for:

  • What you're currently working on
  • Your priorities and goals
  • Background context about your role or projects
  • Patterns in how you prefer to work

This information is stored as a personal memory profile and automatically included as background context in conversations that aren't assigned to a specific project.

Enabling Global Memory​

  1. Open Settings (Ctrl/Cmd+U)
  2. Go to Personalization
  3. Toggle Enable Memory on
  4. Click Save Changes

Once enabled, the first analysis runs in the background within the same day.

What changes when memory is active​

When you start a conversation that isn't assigned to a project (it shows up under Chats in the sidebar), Kognar silently includes your memory profile as background context. This means:

  • The AI already knows your role, ongoing projects, and preferences
  • You don't have to re-explain yourself in every new conversation
  • Answers are more targeted to your specific situation

Memory only applies to conversations outside of projects. Conversations inside a project use that project's own instructions instead.

Viewing the last memory analysis​

In Settings → Personalization, click View last analysis to see the memory extracted by the most recent background run, so you can review exactly what Kognar has learned. Click again to hide it. If no run has happened yet, the panel says so.

You can wipe everything with Clear All Memories — the stored context from your conversations is removed and cannot be recovered.

Privacy​

  • Memory is stored locally on your device, tied to your account
  • The analysis runs using your account's AI model access, on a fast Gemini model
  • No memory content is shared with other users
  • Disabling the feature stops future extractions; existing memory is not used

Cross-conversation context​

Separately from the daily extraction, Cross-Conversation Context controls whether Kognar may reference information from your previous conversations while you chat. Find it in Settings → Personalization → In-conversation references.

Disabling Global Memory​

  1. Open Settings → Personalization
  2. Toggle Enable Memory off
  3. Click Save Changes

When disabled, no new extractions occur and existing memory is not injected into conversations.