What is a digital memory?

We all pile up an incredible amount of information.

Ideas, projects, purchases, trips, decisions, things we’ve learned…

And of course, we forget some of it.

So I built my digital memory.

A personal wiki

Imagine your own Wikipedia.

Except instead of facts about the world, it holds information about your world.

I simply keep the things I want to be able to find again later.

An example: my next e-bike

I eventually want to buy an electric bike.

For a while now, I’ve been looking at models, reading articles, comparing prices, and talking to people.

Instead of losing all of that in chats, bookmarks, and Google searches, I ask my AI to keep what matters in my digital memory.

Little by little, it learns:

• what I’m looking for;
• the models I’m interested in;
• what I like or like less;
• recommendations I’ve received;
• prices I’ve seen;
• questions I still have.

In a few months, I can simply ask:

“Where am I in my e-bike search?”

or:

“Which models had I shortlisted, and why?”

I don’t start the search from scratch.

I pick up where I left off.

That’s where AI gets interesting

I don’t even need to remember where I filed the information.

I can simply talk to my AI:

“Add this bike to the ones I’m considering.”

or:

“Summarize everything I know so far about my future bike.”

The AI then uses my personal wiki as memory.

The simple version

A digital memory is:

A place where I keep what I want to remember.

An AI that helps me organize it and find it again.

I no longer try to remember everything.

I mainly make sure I can find everything again.