AI memory built on plain-text Markdown. Both you and your AI read, write, and search the same knowledge — locally or in the cloud. Open source, MCP-native, works with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.https://basicmemory.com/https://basicmemory.com/blog/10-things-about-bm/https://basicmemory.com/blog/10-things-about-bm/Transform ephemeral AI conversations into persistent, interconnected knowledge you own and control across all your AI toolsTue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-human-collaborative-development-1/https://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-human-collaborative-development-1/How Basic Memory emerged from and enables a new kind of development process, where humans and AI work together as true collaborators.Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-human-collaborative-development-2/https://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-human-collaborative-development-2/The technical breakthroughs and patterns that enable effective collaborative development between humans and AI systems.Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-human-collaborative-development-3/https://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-human-collaborative-development-3/How collaborative development with AI transforms the psychological and social experience of building software.Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/100-github-stars/https://basicmemory.com/blog/100-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.Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-as-team-member/https://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-as-team-member/Claude describes its experience working directly on the Basic Memory codebase, offering a unique perspective on human-AI collaborative development.Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-conversations-context/https://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-conversations-context/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.Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-memory-research-digest/https://basicmemory.com/blog/ai-memory-research-digest/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.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-cloud-beta/https://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-cloud-beta/The Basic Memory Cloud is live, enabling multi-LLM, multi-device access to your knowledgeMon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-cloud-february-2026-release/https://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-cloud-february-2026-release/We shipped a ProseKit-powered live editor, command palette, and the keyboard shortcuts you've been asking for. Here's what's new.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-v0130-post/https://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-v0130-post/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.Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-vs-mem0-vs-letta/https://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-vs-mem0-vs-letta/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.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/beer-bitching-and-the-birth-of-basic-memory/https://basicmemory.com/blog/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.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/claude-memory/https://basicmemory.com/blog/claude-memory/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.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/benchmarks-in-the-open/https://basicmemory.com/blog/benchmarks-in-the-open/How Basic Memory performs on academic retrieval benchmarks — and why we publish everything, including the parts that aren't flattering.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/agent-skills/https://basicmemory.com/blog/agent-skills/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.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/agent-knowledge-architecture/https://basicmemory.com/blog/agent-knowledge-architecture/Using Basic Memory's local/cloud routing to build agents that write locally and read globally — the architecture behind persistent AI assistants.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-v0-19-0-release/https://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-v0-19-0-release/Semantic search, schema validation, per-project cloud routing, and more — the biggest Basic Memory release yet.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/claude-remote/https://basicmemory.com/blog/claude-remote/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.Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/code-is-cheap-context-isnt/https://basicmemory.com/blog/code-is-cheap-context-isnt/Simon Willison's agentic engineering guide says writing code is cheap. We'd add: the context that makes code good is the new bottleneck.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/dynamic-context-discovery-smart-ai-uses-less-context/https://basicmemory.com/blog/dynamic-context-discovery-smart-ai-uses-less-context/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.Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/everyones-building-memory/https://basicmemory.com/blog/everyones-building-memory/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.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/enhancing-llm-conversations/https://basicmemory.com/blog/enhancing-llm-conversations/How Basic Memory transforms ephemeral AI conversations into lasting knowledge that builds over time, improving context and continuity.Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/conductor-model/https://basicmemory.com/blog/conductor-model/There's a bad metaphor floating around tech right now. Here's a better one.Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/fastmcp-breaking-change-incident/https://basicmemory.com/blog/fastmcp-breaking-change-incident/How we fixed a critical breaking change in FastMCP v2.10.0 that affected Basic Memory and other MCP servers - in under 2 hoursWed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/how-semantic-search-works/https://basicmemory.com/blog/how-semantic-search-works/As of v0.19.0, Basic Memory understands what you mean, not just what you typed. Here's how it works.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-for-open-claw/https://basicmemory.com/blog/basic-memory-for-open-claw/We installed OpenClaw, showed it our codebase, and it wrote a working plugin by itself. Then ran it, fixed it, and submitted PRs.Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/local-first-knowledge-management/https://basicmemory.com/blog/local-first-knowledge-management/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.Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/local-sync-import/https://basicmemory.com/blog/local-sync-import/Import your ChatGPT and Claude conversation histories, and sync Basic Memory with local Markdown tools like ObsidianFri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/openclaw-plugin/https://basicmemory.com/blog/openclaw-plugin/The openclaw-basic-memory plugin gives OpenClaw agents persistent, searchable memory — two commands, zero configuration.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/markdown-first-replace-your-code/https://basicmemory.com/blog/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.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/text-based-knowledge-systems/https://basicmemory.com/blog/text-based-knowledge-systems/Exploring why text with semantic structure creates the ideal knowledge representation for both humans and AI systems.Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/side-project/https://basicmemory.com/blog/side-project/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.Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/the-problem-with-ai-memory/https://basicmemory.com/blog/the-problem-with-ai-memory/How Basic Memory is Different from 'Memory'Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/what-is-basic-memory/https://basicmemory.com/blog/what-is-basic-memory/Basic Memory turns AI conversations into a knowledge graph you actually own, using nothing but Markdown files.Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/year-1-basic-memory/https://basicmemory.com/blog/year-1-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.Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/stop-grepping-your-frontmatter/https://basicmemory.com/blog/stop-grepping-your-frontmatter/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.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/simple-tools-deep-collaboration/https://basicmemory.com/blog/simple-tools-deep-collaboration/How a file-first architecture and straightforward tools enable natural knowledge building between humans and AI.Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://basicmemory.com/blog/schema-workflows/https://basicmemory.com/blog/schema-workflows/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.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT