The diary is BaiShou’s memory anchor. What your companions understand, the memory summaries, semantic search — all of it is built on what you keep writing. Without diaries, the whole memory system on top is empty.
This page is what a diary is, and how it connects to AI. To go from an empty setup to a working chat, see Chat in ten minutes.
Where to find it: “Diary” in the sidebar on desktop, “Diary” in the bottom bar on mobile.
Other things you’ll use often: change a diary’s date, delete a diary (you get a confirmation first), get warned about unsaved changes when you leave, export Markdown, and insert attachments (images are referenced from inside the Markdown).
Under Settings → Diary format you can set up three templates: the one used when you create a diary, the one used when you append an entry, and the format a companion has to follow when it writes a diary for you.
Templates can use variables like {time}, {date}, and {datetime}.
Intimate companions can read, write, and search your diaries through tools, as long as the matching tools are enabled in tool management.
Once a diary is saved, BaiShou automatically tries to embed it. If that fails, open the RAG page and click Scan all unindexed diaries to catch up — see RAG memory.
Diaries are also the raw material for everything from weekly journals to yearbooks; for how each layer reads the one below it, see Memories & shared recall.
Don’t force yourself to write an essay every day — two or three sentences count too. Tag or favorite the things that matter, so filtering and recall find them later. And check your backup strategy every once in a while, rather than remembering it after something goes wrong.
