Most AI assistants forget you the moment you close the tab. You explain your role, your projects, and how you like things done - and next time, you start over. AIDA is built to remember, the way a good assistant would. The real difference is where that memory lives: on your own server, not someone else's cloud.
What AIDA remembers
Two kinds of things, the way people do:
- Facts - the durable details: how you like your emails written, who's on your team, the projects you're running.
- Moments - the things worth remembering: the deal you were excited to close, the deadline that had you stressed.
Together, they mean AIDA stops feeling like a blank slate every morning and starts picking up where you left off.
Where your AI's memory actually lives
This is the part most assistants gloss over. With a typical cloud assistant, everything it learns about you sits on a company's servers - and you usually can't see it, correct it, or fully delete it.
AIDA is self-hosted, so its memory lives on the same server you already run AIDA on, under your own API key. Nothing is shipped off to a vendor to be remembered. Your memory is a file you own - yours to keep, back up, or wipe.
For anyone who cares about privacy, that's the whole difference between a private AI assistant and one quietly building a profile of you somewhere you can't reach.
How AIDA learns (quietly, once a day)
AIDA doesn't record everything in real time. Once a day, it reviews your recent conversations, pulls out what's genuinely worth keeping, and updates what's changed.
If you told it last month your go-to tool was one thing and today it's another, it updates the fact instead of storing both. If you take something back, it removes it. The goal is a tidy, current picture of you - not a pile of every stray comment.
You're always in control
Memory only helps if you trust it, so it's built to be transparent, not a black box:
- Off by default. AIDA only starts learning about you once you switch it on.
- See and edit everything. Every memory is visible; change or delete any of it.
- Sourced. Each memory shows which conversation it came from.
- Incognito. Have a conversation you don't want kept, and nothing is saved.
- Forget everything. One button clears it all.
When this actually matters
If you use an AI agent for real work - client details, your calendar, how your business runs - memory is the difference between an assistant and a search box. But that only works if the memory is genuinely yours.
Handing a running profile of your work life to a cloud you can't audit is a lot to give up for a little convenience. AIDA's bet is that you shouldn't have to: you get an assistant that remembers you, and it remembers you on hardware you control.
Memory ships with every AIDA install - off until you want it. See how to get started.