Teach it to remember

Copilot remembers the things worth keeping: you are vegetarian, you prefer short answers, you follow one football club, you are planning a kitchen renovation. It learns these from your conversations over time. It is the difference between a stranger and someone who knows you.

You can also tell it directly. Say "remember that my daughter's birthday is in March" or "remember that I never want spoilers for this show", and it will. A memory you state on purpose works exactly like one it noticed on its own.

Ask for dinner ideas and it already skips the meat. Ask for weekend plans and it knows you have two kids and a dog. Ask about your renovation and it remembers which tiles you chose last week. You stop repeating yourself, and the answers start from where you actually are.

Memory carries across conversations. A project you discussed on Monday is still there on Friday, so you can continue where you stopped: "what was the cheaper option we found?" The longer you use Copilot, the less you have to explain before asking.

Nothing is hidden. Open the Memory panel and every single thing Copilot remembers about you is listed there in plain words. It is searchable, so if you wonder whether it knows about your allergy or your address, type the word and see. What you find is all there is.

Every memory can be deleted, one by one. Wrong club? Delete it and tell Copilot the right one. Moved to a new city? Delete the old one the same way. Something you would rather it did not keep? Delete it, and it is gone from every future answer. No buried menus, no seven-step confirmation.

Memory exists to serve you, not to profile you. Copilot remembers so that your answers get better — that is the whole job. What it keeps is visible, what it keeps is yours to change, and deleting a memory means it is gone, not hidden somewhere out of view.

A good habit: visit the Memory panel once a month, the way you would clean out a drawer. Remove what is out of date, correct what has changed, and keep what still helps. Five minutes of tidying keeps the answers sharp and keeps you certain of what it knows.