Memory and promises

Things with a shape it can use later. Roughly:

• Facts about your work: a price, a contact, a deadline, a way of doing something, a customer, a supplier, a site, a rule from a regulator.
• People, places and things you mention by name.
• Decisions you made, and why.
• Your preferences, including how you want it to write to you.
• Questions it asked and you have not answered yet.

It works best when you say things in one plain sentence with the names in it. Not he said Tuesdays but:

“Malcolm at the recycling yard takes our loads on Tuesdays and Thursdays.”

• Passwords, codes and card numbers. It skips them on purpose, and should never ask for one.
• Small talk, and exchanges too short to carry anything.
• Its own replies, and Last night's check. Those are it talking back to you, not you telling it something new.

Everything it keeps is private to your account. Nobody else can read it, including other people in a world you share.

When it writes something down it also decides whether it is personal. Anything about private life, family, health, money or how you are feeling is marked personal and can never leave your account. The rule it works by is: when unsure, personal.

Some of what you say is clearly a company fact rather than a personal one: a price, a contact, a deadline, a procedure. If you are in a world with other people, Nirvaana will suggest that this one belongs there, where your team would see it.

It does not put it there. It asks you, with a small card under its reply, and waits. The newest ones still waiting when you open the day are at the top, under “Waiting for your approval”. Until you say yes, the fact is private, the same as everything else. When nothing is waiting, there is no card.

Press Approve on a waiting fact and it tells you who would see it, by name, before anything moves: “Add to United Environmental? Kevin and Javier will see it, and so will anyone in a moon of it that reads from it.” The yes is a second press, “Approve” again, directly under that sentence, so nothing is shared by someone who has not read who it reaches. “Not yet” closes the question and leaves the fact waiting.

A waiting fact can carry the words it came from: the exact quotes behind the sentence, and where they were. When one does, its card says so under the sentence, for example “Goes with it: 2 quotes”, and opening that shows every quote before you decide. The quotes go into the world with the fact, so the question under Approve says its people will read them too.

Say yes and the fact goes into that world carrying where it came from: your name, the memory it was learned from, the conversation it was said in, and the day you first said it. What the world gets is the one sentence. Your memory stays yours, and so does the conversation.

Press “Not this one” and nothing is shared. The answer is written down, and the same sentence is not put to you again.

If someone joins or leaves that world between the sentence and the press, the press is refused and you are shown who would see it now, to answer again. You can only say yes into a world you build in; in one you only read, the card says so instead of offering a button.

You can do the same in chat: ask what is waiting and it reads you the same sentence, one fact at a time, before anything moves. Not while a world is in the room, though — when a world’s own words are in front of it, a yes to share into that world is the card’s to take, not the chat’s.

Facts that come in from Claude Code carry the words they rest on, so their cards have quotes to open, and so do facts added by hand on a world's page (the worlds page says how). The facts Nirvaana suggests from a conversation with you carry the sentence alone.

Tell it what you owe someone, or what someone owes you, and it writes it down as a promise. Say the date if you know it.

“I told Kevin I'd have the Safe Storage quote to him by Friday.”

“Malcolm owes us the weight tickets from last Thursday.”

Ask “Catch me up” and it goes through what is due, both kinds of promise: what you owe and who to, and what you are owed and by whom. Last night's check looks at them again after the daily tidy.

When one is done, say so, and it closes it. It will not quietly drop a promise because it became inconvenient, and it should not invent one you did not make.

When it writes something down, it says so under its reply, in plain words: “Kept that.” or “Noted the promise.” Ask it what it knows about something and it looks through what it has kept.

The first time you open it each day on the web or in the Mac and Windows app, it looks over what it learned on the last day you worked and merges near-duplicates. If you told it a price in March and a new one yesterday, it writes one memory saying the current price and marks the old one replaced. Nothing is deleted, so the history is still there.

Tell Claude, or any assistant connected to Nirvaana, that something it kept has changed or no longer holds. It updates that one memory: Nirvaana reads the new words like anything you tell it, and the old one is marked replaced. Or it forgets it: it stops coming up and nothing is deleted. Settings lists what you had it forget, under Forgotten, with a button to bring each one back. A memory kept long ago comes back marked, so your assistant can check it still holds.

Say it again, plainly, in one sentence. Then tell Benicio. This is the thing the whole product is judged on, so a miss is genuinely useful to hear about.