# Memory

> Oyster's long-term memory remembers facts, preferences and decisions from your conversations, per project. Turn it on or off, review it, edit it, export it or delete it.

Source: https://documentation.redorca.ai/guides/memory/
Last updated: 2026-11-01

With an account, Oyster can remember useful things from your conversations — facts about your environment, preferences, decisions, instructions — and recall them in later answers. Memory belongs to a [project](https://documentation.redorca.ai/get-started/projects/) and is visible only to you.

## Settings

Open **Settings** (the wheel in the sidebar footer):

| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Use long-term memory** | Recalls your memories in answers. Off means none are used. |
| **Automatically save useful memories** | Saves facts and preferences from chats without asking. |
| **Ask before saving** | Holds new memories for your review instead of saving them straight away. |

## Manage your memories

**Manage memories** in Settings opens your memories in three tabs:

- **Active** — what Oyster currently recalls. Edit or delete any of them.
- **Review** — memories waiting for your approval, when **Ask before saving** is on. Approve or reject each.
- **Conflicts** — memories that contradict each other. Keep the right one.

**Export JSON** downloads all of them.

## What is protected

- Memory content is encrypted at rest.
- Credentials, card numbers and similar secrets are blocked from being saved as memories, whatever the conversation contained.
- When a memory is updated, the old version is kept on record rather than silently overwritten, and contradictions are shown to you, never resolved behind your back.

## Delete

- Delete single memories in **Manage memories**.
- **Delete my memories** in Settings erases all of them.
- Deleting your account erases them too. See [Data and privacy](https://documentation.redorca.ai/understand/data-and-privacy/).