BaiShou has three things that sound almost the same but do different jobs. Sort them out first:
| Name | What it is |
|---|---|
| Memory rings | Summary files that compress diaries layer by layer into weekly journals, monthly reports, quarterly reports, and yearbooks |
| Shared memories | Walks back through time and folds several summary layers into one block you can copy or inject |
| RAG semantic memory | Vectorizes your diaries for semantic search; a separate mechanism |
This page covers the first two. For RAG, see RAG memory.
Where to find it: “Memories” in the sidebar on desktop, “Memories” in the bottom bar on mobile.
The default rule is simple: each layer only reads the layer directly below it.
| Level | Name | What it reads when generating |
|---|---|---|
| Day | Diary | What you wrote by hand, not an AI summary |
| Week | Weekly journal | The diaries inside that week |
| Month | Monthly report | That month’s weekly journals by default; in settings you can switch to weekly journals plus that month’s diaries |
| Quarter | Quarterly report | That quarter’s monthly reports; it doesn’t read weekly journals or diaries directly |
| Year | Yearbook | That year’s quarterly reports; it doesn’t read monthly reports, weekly journals, or diaries directly |
Two things people trip over:
The memories panel shows stats, an activity heatmap, and the memory gallery, and lets you run Generate now or Generate all for summary points that are missing; the tasks queue up in the background.
Shared memories folds the memories from a past stretch of time into one block, based on the number of look-back months you set.
Click Copy shared memories and it goes to your clipboard (you can set a prefix), which is handy for pasting into an external AI or keeping your own archive. Generation settings also have toggles such as “inject shared memories before generating.”
This is what you want when you need to package up “here’s what happened lately” and take it somewhere else.
While chatting with a companion, you can send it a summary of the past N months of memories so the conversation follows where your life has actually been going. The entry point lives in the memories and chat screens; its exact location shifts a little between versions.
Under Settings → Memory generation settings, the options you’ll actually touch are:
