# How does Locul memory work?

Source: https://help.locul.ai/articles/how-locul-memory-works

Locul reads the notes on your computer and turns them into short, searchable memories. Your bots and your other AI apps then recall those memories, so you stop explaining the same things again.

## Where memories come from

- **Your notes.** Locul reads Markdown files and PDFs in your home folder. It skips folders like code dependencies on its own. You can hide any folder or file you don't want it to read.
- **Your chats.** Tell a bot something like "from now on, keep replies short" and it remembers it.
- **You.** In **Settings**, open **Memory** and press **Remember or edit** to add or change a memory yourself.

## Where they are kept

Memories live in your Locul brain on this computer. If **Where your memories are stored** is set to **Cloud** in **Settings** > **Cloud and local**, they also sync to Locul's cloud so your other computers and web AI apps can reach them. Choose **Local-only** and nothing leaves this machine.

## How memories get built

To turn notes into memories, Locul uses an AI engine. To see which one, open **Settings** > **Cloud and local** and look at **Memories are built on**:

- **A cloud engine**: your notes go outside your network while memories are built.
- **This computer**: your notes stay here while memories are built.
- **A server on your network**: your notes go only to that server.

To read your notes again and look for new memories, open **Settings** > **Memory** and press **Build memories**. You can pause and resume a build. If you reach your plan's memory limit, the build pauses and says so.

## Who can use your memories

- **Your bots.** Each bot has its own memories and a short rules file called memory.md. It also sees related memories from your whole brain.
- **Your other AI apps.** Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others can read your brain once you connect them.

![A bot's Memory tab showing what it remembers](https://cdn.kamaan.io/kamaan/sites/6ae9f4f30e569a4449787b27/images/locul-memory-light-a599-a284e5a0.webp)
## Related articles

- [See and edit what a bot remembers](/articles/see-and-edit-what-a-bot-remembers)
- [Choose what Locul reads on your computer](/articles/choose-which-folders-locul-reads)
- [Cloud and local: where Locul runs](/articles/cloud-and-local-where-locul-runs)
- [Where does my data go?](/articles/where-does-my-data-go)