Memory

Memory is where Membase stores personal context: preferences, decisions, habits, ongoing projects, meetings, emails, and other episodic information captured from your agents and integrations. This page covers how to explore memories in the dashboard and how they are created, updated, and deleted.

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Exploring Memory

The Memories tab in the dashboard offers two views for browsing your knowledge.

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Graph View

The graph view visualizes your knowledge as an interactive network of entities (people, concepts, tools, projects) and the relationships between them.

• Entity-centric visualization: Each node represents an entity extracted from your memories
• Interactive navigation: Click, drag, zoom, and use the zoom controls to explore the graph
• Search: Search for an entity name to dim unrelated nodes in the graph
• Side panel: Click any entity to open a detail panel with Related Episodes, the memories that mention this entity. Click an episode to switch to Table View focused on it.

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Table View

The table view lists all your episodes (memories) in a structured, searchable format with source and project attribution.

• Episode list: Browse all memories with content previews, source tags, and project labels
• Sorting: Sort by date or source
• Source filtering: Filter memories by source (Cursor, Claude, Gmail, Slack, etc.)
• Project filtering: Filter memories by project slug (see Projects)
• Time range filtering: Preset ranges (Today, This Week, This Month, This Year, All Time) or a custom date range
• Search: Text filter over the currently loaded memories (client-side substring match; not semantic)
• Pagination: Choose 10, 20, or 50 rows per page
• Bulk delete: Select multiple rows and delete them in one action. Bulk project assignment is not available yet.
• Side panel: Click any episode to open a detail panel with the full memory content and the option to change its project.

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Creating Memories

Memories enter Membase through two channels. Creating memories directly from the dashboard is not supported yet; everything flows through agents or integrations.

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Updating Memories

Memories are updated through your agents, not directly edited from the dashboard. When existing context becomes outdated, your agent calls add_memory to register the updated information and flags the old memory as outdated. For example, if you switch from Redux to Zustand, the agent saves “uses Zustand” as a new memory and marks the old “uses Redux” memory as no longer valid so it no longer surfaces in future searches. Behind the scenes, Membase also handles updates automatically during digesting:

• Deduplication: Similar memories from different sources are merged to avoid redundancy.
• Conflict resolution: When new information contradicts an existing memory, the latest data takes priority.
• Relationship updates: New connections between entities are added to the knowledge graph as they are discovered.

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Projects

Projects are lightweight category tags for memories (slugs up to 60 characters). They let you scope agent searches and browse memories by topic without juggling sources.

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How projects get attached

• Explicit user request: Agents set the project field on add_memory only when you explicitly mention a project, tag, label, or category during the conversation (for example, “save this under acme-rewrite” or “file this under personal”). Agents do not guess or infer a project.
• Profile instructions: If you want certain projects to be applied automatically, add a rule in your profile instructions (for example, “When I mention acme, tag the memory under the acme project”). The agent will follow this during matching conversations.
• Dashboard assignment: Assign or move a memory’s project directly from the Memories table. Click the project cell on any row to open the picker and choose an existing project or create a new one. Bulk multi-row assignment is not available yet.

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Filtering and scoped search

• Dashboard filter: Filter the Memories table by project slug from the toolbar.
• Agent search: Agents pass project: "acme" to search_memory when you explicitly ask for a project-scoped recall (for example, “what have I decided on the acme project?”). See Membase MCP: Projects.
• Known projects sync: Your current project list is available to connected agents so they can reuse existing slugs instead of creating duplicates.

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Deleting Memories

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Delete a single memory

Delete individual memories from the Table View.

1. Switch to Table View.
2. Click the Delete icon next to the memory you want to remove.
3. Click Delete and confirm.

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Delete multiple memories

Bulk-delete selected memories from the Table View.

1. Switch to Table View.
2. Tick the checkboxes on the rows you want to remove (or use the header checkbox to select all rows on the page).
3. Click Delete All in the bulk-actions bar that appears at the bottom of the table.
4. Confirm in the dialog, which shows how many memories will be removed.

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Delete all memories from a source

To remove all memories from a specific integration (for example, all Slack memories), go to the Sources page in the dashboard and click Delete memories on that integration. You will be asked to confirm before deletion.

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Next Steps