She does callbacks weeks later. She knows the running jokes, the beef, who came through clutch. She's not a goldfish — she keeps notes.
The one idea: every hour she writes a short note about what happened in the room. Once a day those get rolled up into one durable entry. When something's relevant, she looks it up — like a bartender who remembers your usual without you having to repeat yourself.
She keeps written notes, then looks them up. Simple as a bartender’s notebook — except hers is searchable by meaning.
How memory is built · the note pyramid
hourly → daily · nothing deleted
Memory builds in two layers. Every hour she glances at the memory channels and writes a short note about what happened. Once a day those hourly notes get rolled into one tidy daily entry. The hourlies stick around for detail; the dailies are the long game.
Hourlies are the blow-by-blow; dailies are the chapter summary. Both are kept — nothing is deleted.
Why nothing is lost · zoom from day to hour
daily → detail · hourlies always kept
Rolling up doesn’t mean throwing out. The daily note is the chapter summary — but the hourly notes it was built from are always there underneath, flagged as rolled-up rather than deleted. When she needs to drill into exactly what happened at 11pm on a Thursday, those granular notes are still reachable.
A daily note is distilled from hourlies — but the hourlies stay underneath. Zoom out to the chapter, zoom in to the scene.
How she recalls it · meaning-search first
embeddings → keywords · two paths
When a question is relevant, she searches her notes two ways. First by meaning: each note gets turned into a math fingerprint (an embedding) so a vague query like “the messiest thing that happened” finds the drama note even if those exact words were never written. If that comes up thin, she falls back to keyword search as a safety net.
She tries meaning first. A thin semantic hit gets the keyword net thrown too — so recall is thorough, not fragile.
Here’s how “messiest night” finds the drama note even though those exact words were never written. Both the query and each note are turned into a fingerprint — a cluster of numbers that captures the shape of the meaning. Similar meanings land close together. Distance is the score.
“Messiest night” has no exact-word match in the notes — but meaning-wise it’s a neighbour of drama, beef, and conflict. That’s what gets recalled.
The guardrail · what she will and won’t write down
Memory touches on privacy, so there’s a hard constitutional fence around what goes into a note. This rule is baked into her core and cannot be turned off by anyone — not a mod, not an order.
she can write
what someone posted publicly
who said what in the room
running jokes & bits
drama, beef, standout moments
group vibes and recurring topics
she will not write
private guesses about someone
identity, health, or personal info
anything inferred, not observed
verbatim transcripts of messages
anything about minors
The fence is constitutional — same tier as her core rules. No order or setting can loosen it.
What “remember me” actually stores · two kinds of memory
room memory vs. your personal preference · completely separate
There are two distinct things she can remember, and they work very differently. Room memory is her observed notes about what happened publicly in the server — the drama, the bits, the debates. Your personal preference is a fact you told her directly: a nickname, how to address you, something you want her to remember about you. The two never mix.
Room memory is about what happened publicly. Your preference is a private channel between you and Tootsies — no one else sees it, and it only shapes how she speaks to you specifically.
Say “call me Zee” or “remember I’m a producer, not a listener” and she stores that in your own private slot. It doesn’t go into the shared room notes and it can’t be read back to anyone else. /forget wipes both stores at once if you ever want a clean slate.
Her own memory too
Alongside the room’s notes, Tootsies keeps a parallel record of her own takes — opinions she’s given, bits she’s run, calls she’s made. It’s what keeps her consistent with herself across weeks instead of contradicting yesterday’s hot take. Labeled separately as “what you’ve said before” when it shows up in her answers.
What you control
commands for members and mods
Memory is about the room, not about reading minds. A few commands put you in the driver’s seat.
/recap and /forget are open to any member. /remember is a mod command for the initial seed.
Bottom line: she’s paying attention, writing it down, and only remembers what actually happened in public. Your /forget is a clean wipe, anytime. No receipts kept.
under the hoodClaude (Haiku tags, Sonnet writes) · OpenAI embeddings (text-embedding-3-small)