What Kept remembers

The assistant is more useful when it knows that you run on Tuesdays, that "the board" means Thursday's meeting, and that you would rather be asked than nudged. Kept keeps those facts in a memory you can read in full.

See what is remembered

Open Settings → Assistant context on iPhone or Settings → Assistant → Data on Mac. Each memory shows the sentence Kept keeps and where it came from: something you said, something you captured, or something Kept inferred overnight. Add a memory of your own with Remember something. Forget removes one; Keep pins one you want to survive.

Where memories come from

• You. Anything you tell the assistant to remember, and anything you add in Settings.
• Overnight learning. With Cloud AI allowed and nightly reflection on, Kept reviews recently changed tasks, notes, habits, meals, workouts, sleep, and calendar events in small batches and writes short facts it can cite. A memory made this way keeps a link to its source, so correcting or deleting the source retires the memory.
• Never from raw health measurements. Habit check-ins that came from Apple Health are remembered as check-ins, not as numbers.

Overnight learning keeps memories about you. Other people appear only as who they are to you and what you do together, never their health, medication, feelings or conduct, and Kept names a relationship only when your own words do. Your own work stays yours: gives medications to patients on night shifts or manages a team of five, salary reviews every March is remembered about you, while a detail about one colleague, student or patient is not. It never keeps a conduct record or a number that identifies a student, patient or candidate, and it never guesses a year your notes leave out. A single event stays a short-lived memory: one task on a Sunday does not become "every Sunday" unless you wrote the rule down or your notes show it on two or more different Sundays, such as Sun 9/6 long run and Sun 9/13 long run. Text your note marks as someone else's is read but not remembered as yours: a note or section you label pasted, forwarded or copied from somewhere, a quote block, or a line written to an AI. I'm shipping the app this month is remembered; a pasted status report about the same app is not. Each learning pass adds at most five new memories, the most important first.

Expired or superseded memories are left out of every answer. If Kept cannot verify what a memory may be used for, it leaves that memory out.

When Do is available, talking to Do counts as recent use for the same three-day window as using Kept. A task comment or closing your day also tells Kept that something changed, so overnight work can refresh even when your tasks stayed the same.

Your identity statement

The line under your name in the drawer is your identity statement: who you are choosing to be. The drawer shows it whole at standard text sizes, and at the largest text sizes it shows the first two lines; Profile always shows all of it. Edit it from your profile. It informs the assistant's tone and the plan's sense of what matters, and it appears on the Identity widget.

Contacts

The assistant can recognize people you mention often. Settings → Assistant contacts shows who Kept knows and lets you remove anyone. Kept never reads your address book without asking.

Turn it off

Turn off Cloud AI and overnight learning stops. Existing memories stay until you forget them. Deleting your account removes them all.

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