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Basic Memory
We’re not trying to disrupt anything,
just make something good.
The Conductor Model: What Programming With AI Actually Looks Like
There's a bad metaphor floating around tech right now. Here's a better one.
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Basic Memory vs Mem0 vs Letta vs Everyone Else
The AI memory space has gotten crowded fast. Here's an honest breakdown of who's building what, for whom, and whether you can actually read what they store.
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Everyone's Building Memory. Nobody's Building Yours.
Every AI company is racing to add memory. But whose memory is it? If you can't read it, edit it, or take it with you — it's not yours.
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We Read the AI Memory Research So You Don't Have To
Dozens of papers on AI memory dropped in three months. We read them. Here's what matters: memory types, sleep-time consolidation, and why forgetting is the hardest problem.
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Your AI Just Got a Lot Better at Using Basic Memory
Skills are pre-built instruction files that teach your AI the best way to work with Basic Memory. Install once, your AI picks up good habits automatically.
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Semantic Search in Basic Memory
As of v0.19.0, Basic Memory understands what you mean, not just what you typed. Here's how it works.
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When You Need Your Notes to Be Consistent
Basic Memory's schema system lets you define what a type of note should always look like — so your AI can follow that structure automatically, every time.
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Your AI Can Now Filter Your Notes Like a Spreadsheet
Basic Memory v0.19 adds metadata search — ask your AI to find notes by any label you've defined, and it returns exactly what you asked for.
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Basic Memory v0.19.0: Search That Understands What You Mean
Semantic search, schema validation, per-project cloud routing, and more — the biggest Basic Memory release yet.
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Code Is Cheap Now. Context Isn't.
Simon Willison's agentic engineering guide says writing code is cheap. We'd add: the context that makes code good is the new bottleneck.
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Markdown First: Replace Your Code
Plain-language specs are becoming the real source code in an AI-native world. The implementation is just the binary.
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OpenClaw Built Its Own Basic Memory Plugin
We installed OpenClaw, showed it our codebase, and it wrote a working plugin by itself. Then ran it, fixed it, and submitted PRs.
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Basic Memory Cloud February 2026: A Real Editor, Finally
We shipped a ProseKit-powered live editor, command palette, and the keyboard shortcuts you've been asking for. Here's what's new.
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Dynamic Context Discovery: Why Smart AI Uses Less Context, Not More
While AI context windows keep expanding, cutting-edge systems achieve 46.9% token reductions by intelligently retrieving only what they need, when they need it.
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A Look Back at Year 1 of Basic Memory
From a Thanksgiving weekend project to a four-person team building a knowledge platform that serves as your ground truth. A year of Basic Memory in review.
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Claude Remote: Run Commands on Your Machine from Claude.ai
Announcing Claude Remote, an open source MCP bridge that lets you execute shell commands, read files, and explore your filesystem from Claude.ai on your phone or browser.
Read more Your Most Valuable AI Conversations Aren't Gone…but They Might as Well Be
AI has become a cognitive workspace. The problem is that it doesn't behave like one. Your conversations are spread across platforms, threads are isolated, and context is lost.
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10 Things to Know About Basic Memory
Transform ephemeral AI conversations into persistent, interconnected knowledge you own and control across all your AI tools
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Basic Memory now supports import + local sync
Import your ChatGPT and Claude conversation histories, and sync Basic Memory with local Markdown tools like Obsidian
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Basic Memory Cloud Beta Is Live!
The Basic Memory Cloud is live, enabling multi-LLM, multi-device access to your knowledge
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Basic Memory's take on the latest Claude news
Analyzing Claude's new memory features, Microsoft integrations, and recent performance issues - and how Basic Memory provides a more robust solution for persistent AI knowledge.
Read more The Problem with AI Memory (and How We Fixed it)*
How Basic Memory is Different from 'Memory'
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A Side Project - and it actually works!
We got so fed up with AI forgetting everything that we built a (free, open source) solution, and it actually works! I've followed this sub for ages from my main account, so it's great to finally have something to post about.
Read more When Dependencies Break at 9pm: A FastMCP Story
How we fixed a critical breaking change in FastMCP v2.10.0 that affected Basic Memory and other MCP servers - in under 2 hours
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1,000 GitHub Stars!
It's a fake milestone, but it marks progress in a real journey. A little reflection on how we got here, what it means and where we are going.
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What is Basic Memory?
Basic Memory turns AI conversations into a knowledge graph you actually own, using nothing but Markdown files.
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Basic Memory v0.13.0
Basic Memory v0.13.0 - Sorry it took so long, But there's lots of cool new features, including improved multi-project support, edit_note, move_note, view_note tools.
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Beer, Bitching, and the Birth of Basic Memory
The real story behind Basic Memory - born from weekly beers and endless frustration with AI conversations that never remember what came before.
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AI-Human Collaborative Development: The Human Experience (Part 3)
How collaborative development with AI transforms the psychological and social experience of building software.
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AI-Human Collaborative Development: Technical Patterns (Part 2)
The technical breakthroughs and patterns that enable effective collaborative development between humans and AI systems.
Read more AI-Human Collaborative Development: A New Model (Part 1)
How Basic Memory emerged from and enables a new kind of development process, where humans and AI work together as true collaborators.
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AI as a Team Member: My Experience Contributing to Basic Memory
Claude describes its experience working directly on the Basic Memory codebase, offering a unique perspective on human-AI collaborative development.
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Text-based Knowledge Systems: Finding the Natural Interface for LLMs
Exploring why text with semantic structure creates the ideal knowledge representation for both humans and AI systems.
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Why Local-First Knowledge Management Matters
In an age of cloud-based tools, there's a growing movement toward keeping data local. Here's why Basic Memory embraces this approach for knowledge management.
Read more Enhancing LLM Conversations with Persistent Knowledge
How Basic Memory transforms ephemeral AI conversations into lasting knowledge that builds over time, improving context and continuity.
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Basic Memory: Simple Tools for Deep Collaboration
How a file-first architecture and straightforward tools enable natural knowledge building between humans and AI.
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