A few choices about the assistant are in Settings, on the Assistant tab, and what it remembers is on the Memory tab. Open Settings from the account menu or from the search.
Custom instructions
Custom instructions are what the assistant should know about you or always do, in your own words. For example, what to call you, which language to write your cards in, or that you like short answers. The assistant reads them before every answer. You can write up to 2,000 characters. Save keeps them.
Anything you’d like the assistant to do differently goes here, rather than in a setting of its own.
Memory
While Memory is on, the assistant remembers things about you for later chats: what you ask it to remember, and what it learns about you along the way, such as your subjects, your exams and how you like to learn. When it changes what it remembers, its answer shows Updated your memory, and View next to it takes you to the Memory tab.
Under What it remembers you can read all of it, up to 4,000 characters, and change or remove anything. Save keeps your changes; saving it empty clears it. Turning Memory off keeps what is there, but the assistant no longer reads or changes it until you turn it on again.
Before it changes something
This chooses what the assistant asks you before it changes your topics and cards:
- Careful: it asks before every change, except writing cards that wait for your review.
- Balanced: it asks before moving anything to the trash or the archive, and before every change once an answer has changed 20 things. This is where it starts.
- Hands-off: it asks only before moving anything to the trash.
See What it can change for how it asks.
Review its cards first
While Review its cards first is on, cards the assistant writes wait for your review before you study them: only you see them, and they aren’t studied, counted or part of an exam yet. Turned off, its cards are added like the ones you write.
A change to either takes effect at once.