Memory
Memory is the short list of facts Mesh keeps about you, so you don't re-explain yourself every time you come back. It's about you and how you work - never the subject itself.
What Memory is
As you work, Mesh quietly notices what's worth remembering - that you'd rather see one worked example than three, that tessellations felt shaky, that you like answers kept short. Each becomes a single plain fact, dated for you. Next time it already knows, so it picks up where you left off instead of starting cold.
Memory only ever holds facts about you. The subject material itself - your writing, formulas, and worked pages - lives in your Notes, Topics, and Artifacts. So "tessellations: still shaky" is a memory fact; the page that teaches tessellations is an artifact.
Four kinds, four homes
Not every fact is true everywhere. "Call me Sam" holds across your whole account; "tessellations felt shaky" holds for one topic. So Memory comes in four sizes, and each fact lives in the broadest one where it stays true.
User
Follows you into every workspace.
- Your name and how you like to be addressed
- Accessibility needs and lasting preferences
- A role you carry everywhere - teacher, med student
Workspace
True across everything in one workspace.
- Facts that hold for all the maps in Geometry
- A course constraint or a workspace-wide fact
Map
How a whole map is going, across its topics.
- A pattern that shows up across the map's topics
- The way you're working through the map
Topic
How work is going in one topic.
- What clicked and what's still shaky here
- A preference that only applies to this topic
Every fact has one home. Mesh keeps it at the broadest level that's true and drops the narrower copy, so a preference that holds everywhere rides at User and never repeats on each topic. That's what keeps the cards short and honest.
Read a card anytime
You can open any of the four cards yourself - each sits right where it belongs, titled so you always know which one you're looking at.
- User - in Settings & account, under What Mesh knows.
- Workspace - in Workspace settings, under What Mesh knows here.
- Map - the Memory button in a map's header.
- Topic - the Memory button on a topic card.
A card you haven't built up yet just says so - "Nothing yet - Mesh notes how this topic is going as you work." It fills in on its own; there's nothing to set up.
Fixing or clearing a card
Memory is a helper, so you're always in charge of it. There are two ways to change what a card holds.
- Fix one detail - tell Mesh in chat ("actually, tessellations clicked now") and it updates the right fact.
- Clear the whole card - the Forget button wipes it and starts fresh.
Forget clears the entire card, not one line, so it asks once first - Forget — are you sure? - before doing anything. Editing a single fact by hand is what chat is for.
Note Memory is a memory aid, never a grade. Read it, clear it, or ignore it - clearing a card never touches your notes, maps, or anything you've made.
Tip To nudge how Mesh works with you, just say it in chat - "keep it shorter" or "more examples" - and it lands as a fact Mesh remembers next time.