Ando Memory: Your Preferences, Kept in Mind
You open a new chat about your story and find yourself explaining the same things again. You prefer British spelling. You want gentle, specific feedback. And your main character mustn't discover the family secret until the final act.
Those choices matter beyond one conversation. Ando memory lets Storiando keep your writing preferences and story decisions between chats, so you can spend more of your session working on what comes next.
Two Kinds of Memory
Writer memory follows you across your stories. It's for lasting preferences about how you write or like to work. For example:
Remember that I use British spelling and prefer feedback with one concrete example at a time.
Story memory belongs to one story. It's for decisions such as a secret's timing, a rule of your world or an idea you've ruled out:
Remember that Mara mustn't learn who her father is until the last act.
That decision stays with Mara's story. It doesn't become a rule for your next project.
How to Ask Ando to Remember Something
- Open Ando in your story, or start a Brainstorm. Tell it a preference or decision and ask it to remember.
- Check the note in the chat. It shows what was saved and whether it's for you or for this story. Use Undo if it saved something you don't want kept.
- Continue when you're ready. The memory is included in later chats, chapter drafting and suggestions. Story decisions saved during a Brainstorm carry over when you turn it into a story.
You can also review, edit or delete memories later. In Account settings, look for What Ando remembers about you. On your story's main tab, look for What Ando remembers about this story.
Memory has limited space. If it's full, Ando tells you and suggests what to replace. It doesn't silently drop an older memory to fit a new one.
Your Saved Story Still Comes First
Memory is for guidance that doesn't already have a place in your story's details. A character's age, a location's description or a chapter's outline belongs in the story itself. Ask Ando to change those and it proposes a story update; in Brainstorms, it updates the blueprint.
If a memory disagrees with your saved story, Ando goes by the story and points out the conflict. You remain in charge of deciding what should change.
PDF import keeps a different job: reading the manuscript you already wrote. It doesn't use memory to adjust your words or the details it extracts. Our manuscript import guide walks through that process.
The Same Memory in ChatGPT and Claude
If you use the Storiando connector with ChatGPT or Claude, your assistant gets the same writer and story memory when it reads your stories. You can ask it to save a new preference or decision there, and that memory is available to Ando too.
The connector requires Storiando Pro. Saving or deleting memory through it uses no Storiando AI credits. See our connector guide for how this fits alongside Ando and Brainstorms.
Try one small preference in Storiando: “Remember that I like feedback to start with what's working, then suggest one thing to improve.” Check the saved note, and keep the guidance that helps you write.