The three memories

A grounded worker draws on three different kinds of memory, and askTheodor keeps them deliberately separate so your trusted facts never get muddled with a worker’s scratch notes.

What you’ll learn

• The three memory layers a worker can read from.
• Why keeping them apart makes your workforce easier to reason about.
• That all three live on your machine and are searchable.

The three layers

1. Private memory — what a single worker quietly learns and recalls during its own runs. It’s personal to that worker: lessons, preferences, and facts it picked up on the job. Nobody else reads it.
2. The tribe memory — shared within one Company. It’s the team’s common ground, so workers in the same neighborhood pull from the same context rather than each starting cold.
3. The Library — your deliberately curated knowledge base of documents, notes, lists, links, and files. You decide what’s on the shelf; every relevant worker can reach for it.

Why separate them?

The Library is your reference material — trusted, on purpose. Private memory is a worker’s own notebook. Mixing them would let one worker’s guess contaminate your facts. Separation keeps each layer honest.

All local, all searchable

Every layer lives on your machine — askTheodor is local-first. And each is searchable, so a worker can find what it needs the moment a task calls for it.

Recap

Workers think with three memories: their own private notes, their Company’s tribe memory, and the shared Library you curate. Keeping them distinct is what makes a worker both grounded and trustworthy. Next, we open the Library and see how a worker actually pulls from it.

➡️ Next: The Library & RAG