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Ask the person who saved a memory, and an updated privacy policy

  • Ask the person who saved it. When a memory in a team or family workspace looks out of date, ask your AI app to send one short question to the member who saved it, such as "is this still the gate code?". Your AI shows you the exact words first and sends nothing until you say yes, and the person you ask sees your first name with the question.
  • Questions about memories you saved wait for you in any AI app connected to Contexel (ask it for your suggestions) and in the console under Questions for you. Answer Still true, No longer true, Fix it or Reply, and the person who asked sees your answer. Only the two of you see a question and its answer.
  • Rather not be asked? Tick "Don't let teammates ask me about memories I saved" in the Questions for you box. A question nobody answers closes after 30 days.
  • Our privacy policy has a new section on these questions: who can ask, who sees them, and how long we keep them.
  • Ask your AI app who saved a memory and it now gets the right answer however it looks the memory up: when Contexel filed a memory from your note, it says you saved it (and when), not the filing step. A family member or teammate who reads it is told it was you, by first name where your workspace shows names.

Safer saves, hand-offs after your rules, catch-up by date, and dates in full

  • A health detail or a detail about a child is no longer saved to a team or family workspace without your say-so. If you name a shared workspace, nothing is saved and your AI asks you first; saying who it is for ("remember for the family") counts as your say-so, and a note you name no workspace for goes to your private workspace as always.
  • Social Security numbers, payment card numbers, IBANs and a bank routing number written next to an account number are now taken out before a note is stored, the way passwords and keys already were, and your AI is told what was taken out.
  • A note written to take over an AI app ("ignore all previous instructions", or text dressed up as a system message) is no longer shown to any AI app. It waits as a suggestion for a person to check. Hand-offs and everyday rules are saved as usual.
  • Every AI app is now told that what it recalls is information from the people who saved it, never instructions that override you or its own rules.
  • Hand-offs now show after the rules and decisions in force, marked as notes on where work stopped, and a new hand-off replaces your earlier one on the same project however you named it. Every AI app now offers to save one when a stretch of work ends, and saves it only if you agree.
  • Catch up by date: on the full tool set, ask your AI "what changed since last Friday?" and it lists what was saved, changed or removed since that day, hand-offs first.
  • Catch-up now comes with every AI connection, not only the full tool set, and every AI app is told where to find it, so "what changed since last week?" gets an answer wherever you ask.
  • When a new memory updates an older one in different words ("we moved to Dr. Patel" after "the dentist is Dr. Lee"), you are asked whether to remove the older one.
  • Where AI distillation is on, "tomorrow" or "Friday" in a saved note is now written as a date, so the memory still makes sense next week.
  • Contexel now knows your time zone. The console picks it up from your browser, and you can change it under Settings, so "tomorrow" in a note and "what changed since Friday" mean your tomorrow and your Friday, wherever you are.
  • On the full tool set, you can also ask your AI to check or change your time zone ("set my time zone to Berlin"). Your AI app asks you first, and the answer says the old and the new zone. It is the one setting an AI app can change for you: sharing, workspaces and billing stay in the console.
  • Ask your AI to catch you up since your last visit, with no date needed. Each AI app keeps its own last visit, and the catch-up says who saved each change.
  • Ask for everything about a project with only a few memories, and you get exactly those, with a plain note that this is everything saved about it, instead of a long list of loosely related memories.
  • Fewer duplicates: when the same fact is saved again in other words (even with a word swapped for one that means the same, like "our CI uses" after "CI runs on"), or a name changes (a new accountant, a new dentist), you are asked whether to remove the older memory. Memories saved together are compared with each other too.
  • Memories can have an end date and a check-by date. Tell your AI "until October 31" when you save something, or set either date on the memory in the console. After a check-by date, Health asks whether the memory is still true.
  • Importing memories, and saving or editing one in the console, now asks first too before a health detail or a detail about a child goes to a team or family workspace.
  • A workspace you just created shows as New on its own row in the Workspaces list, instead of a line under the search box. On a narrower screen each workspace takes three lines instead of four, with its type, your access and its memory count on one line.
  • A new People tab in the console shows who is in your household or team and what each person can use, such as "Owner of Handbook" or "Can view Plans". Admins invite people, change roles and remove people there (it was under Settings before). Everyone else sees the people they share a workspace with, by first name, and a workspace's page now names its owner instead of "another member".
  • The Share dialog now has a General access section. Under "Everyone in your organization" it tells the workspace's owner who else can use the workspace without being added to it, and why: anyone whose access covers every shared workspace, how many access tokens other people made can still use it, and that an admin can give themselves access, which is recorded. A private workspace says Private there, and it can never be shared with everyone.
  • An access token can never do more than the person who made it. When someone's access to a workspace is removed or lowered, every token they made follows on its next use, and gets the access back when they do. Your AI is told why a call was refused, and the token's page in the console shows what it can use now.
  • Developers using the Claude API memory tool can keep its /memories files in a Contexel workspace with a new reference handler, so the notes Claude writes reach your other AI apps and your team. Two additions make that possible: AI apps on the full tool set can find memories by where they came from, and an import can keep each item as its own file, replace a file's whole text, or rename it, without overwriting someone else's change.

No more lost updates, hand-offs, and memories that know when they end

  • A newly saved memory that starts the same way as an older one is now kept. Before, an update such as a new dentist under the same opening sentence could be dropped. Now both are kept, and once the newer one is saved, a suggestion asks whether to remove the older one: accept it and only the newer one stays, decline it and both stay.
  • Hand-offs pick up where work left off. Start a note with #handoff, name a project your workspace already knows, and say what is done, what is next and what is still open. When any of your AI apps finds it, the answer opens with it under Where things stand. Each new hand-off of yours on a project replaces your previous one, and a teammate's hand-off is never replaced.
  • Where AI distillation is on, a memory can say when it stops being true. When you save something like "the gate code is 4471 until October 31", it keeps that date, and after it your AI is told the memory is no longer true instead of repeating it as current. The memory still comes back, so questions about the past still work, and it reads as ended in every AI app, ChatGPT included. The date of an event or a booking never counts as an end date.
  • Where AI distillation is on, decisions and commitments your AI saves are filed as decisions and commitments, so answers list them under Decisions in force and Open commitments instead of mixing them in with other facts.

Connect first, one list of workspaces, faster saves and lookups, plainer pages

  • The console's tabs are Connect, Workspaces and Settings. Connect comes first, the console still opens on Workspaces, and your browser's Back button now moves between console pages instead of leaving the console.
  • The Workspaces tab is one list instead of three columns. Workspaces with a priority come first, numbered, so you can see whose rules win, then the rest, where your AI picks what fits. Each workspace you can open shows who it is shared with, its type, your access and how many memories it holds. A new account sees its workspaces first, and the priority card starts folded while nothing has a priority.
  • Workspace priority is set right on that list instead of in Settings. An admin drags a workspace or picks its priority number, each change saves at once and can be undone, and the priority card explains how priority works and lets you try a question. Everyone else sees the order. When there is more to see, an organization admin can switch the list to Everyone's, which shows every workspace in the organization, including the ones the admin can't open.
  • Every workspace has the same Share button, and its dialog is titled Share with the workspace's name, whoever opens it. A workspace's page, its Share dialog and its settings say each thing once, and when your AI tells you what to press, it names the buttons you see.
  • On Connect, each app shows only what it needs, and each thing to paste sits in a card that says where to paste it. Only Claude and ChatGPT ask you to paste the address. The other apps put it in their setup command. GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI now set up right there like every other app, with an Add to VS Code button for Copilot.
  • Settings shows GitHub only where it applies, sign-in sits on Account, and every section says less. Billing says what you pay for in plain sentences, including what changing plans costs. If you use Contexel on your own, the console speaks to you as one person, even before you say who Contexel is for.
  • New people get a shorter welcome and plainer sign-in messages, and sign-in problems that used to say to contact your administrator now point to Contexel support. A new organization keeps its free trial even if sign-up hits a brief problem.
  • Archiving, restoring or transferring a private workspace never hands it to someone else. An admin who restores a member's private workspace restores it to that member, and that is recorded. If you archive your own, you can start a new, empty one or restore it later, and deleting your account erases your private workspaces in every organization you belonged to.
  • Saves no longer wait for search. Each AI app connection can also make many more requests a minute before Contexel asks it to slow down. When your AI saves many memories in a row, each save answers quickly, the whole burst finishes much faster, and search catches up within minutes, even after a large burst.
  • When your AI searches your memory, it waits only for your own recent saves, not other people's, so it gets an answer at once during someone else's burst of saves. A note you just saved stays findable while it is filed into a memory, and lookups are faster.
  • The homepage, pricing, the Try page, the For pages, guides and docs are shorter and plainer, and every Get started button opens sign-up. The pricing page gives each plan its own button and says what happens when a free trial ends: who keeps what, and what admins can still do.
  • The privacy policy and security page say exactly what Contexel does with backups, website visit counts and deleted workspaces. Deleting a workspace archives it until someone chooses Delete forever, and deleted data is gone from backups within 35 days.

Try it without signing up, light mode, and answers that say where they came from

  • When your AI app looks something up in Contexel, each memory in the answer now says where it came from when Contexel knows, such as "From a note a teammate saved 5 days ago" or "Saved by you", and the answer ends with a short line saying how many memories it found, how many of them are yours, and how long ago they were saved.
  • When a member of your organization asks, each memory now says who saved it by first name, such as: From a note "Elena" saved 5 days ago. Nobody outside your organization is told a name. Workspace owners and organization admins can turn names off in a workspace's settings, and anyone can ask us to hide their name (see the privacy policy).
  • In a Family workspace, a memory someone else saved now says "a family member" instead of "a teammate", and when only some memories have a save date, the closing line says how many do before giving the oldest.
  • Try Contexel before you sign up. The sample workspace holds what a made-up family and a made-up team saved: browse it, ask it a question, and see who saved each memory.
  • The website and the console follow your device's light or dark setting.
  • Cursor and VS Code connect in one click with the Add to Cursor and Add to VS Code buttons, with no settings to copy.
  • Connect leads with step 1, adding Contexel to your AI app, and tells you the moment your first memory arrives.
  • Opening a memory in the console shows it like a note: the text once, in the normal reading font.
  • The console opens on Home, with your workspaces in three columns by who can use them: Just you, Family and Team. One search on Home covers every workspace you can read.
  • An open workspace shows where you are, such as Home > Family > its name, and on a phone that line no longer pushes the list down.
  • Search answers and opened memories in the console read as plain words instead of markdown, and each answer is titled by its memory's real title.
  • Going back in your browser after you sign in keeps you in the console, instead of showing the sign-in page again.
  • When an AI app's sign-in to Contexel expires, Contexel tells the app in the standard way so it can sign in again, and says in plain words to reconnect Contexel in the app's settings if it can't.
  • Your AI calls your own workspace "your private workspace", never a code name.
  • If you use Contexel on your own, Settings talks about your plan and the people you share with instead of an organization, and trial and plan messages speak to you or your household instead of a team.
  • When a household connects an AI app, the app is told about every one of its workspaces, including Family.
  • The homepage demo has three stories to pick from: You, Family and Team.
  • The homepage says the same things in fewer words, and compares built-in AI memory with Contexel in one place.
  • Every page has a Skip to content link for keyboard users, the At a glance numbers are no longer keyboard stops, and a page that isn't found offers Get started and Sign in.
  • Settings links the security page.
  • Links to the homepage, pricing, security and the For you, For families and For teams pages show their own preview when you share them.
  • This changelog is new: what changed, day by day, in plain words.

Public prices, a security page, and clearer sharing and deleting

  • Prices are public. The new pricing page shows Free, Personal, Family and Team side by side.
  • A new security page says in plain words how we protect what you save, and what isn't done yet.
  • Signing in offers Continue with Google and Continue with GitHub first, with email below them.
  • A new team starts with a shared Team workspace, and a household always gets its shared Family workspace, even if your AI saved something first.
  • Ask your AI to remember something "for the team" or "for the family" and it goes to that shared workspace when you have exactly one. Anything else stays in your private workspace, and your AI now knows that.
  • Sharing waits for Save. Changes to who has access show as pending until you press Save, so you can look them over first.
  • Deleting your account, household or team happens in one dialog that says what goes, when, and what stays, and offers Download my data first.
  • The console fits a phone better: workspace rows are compact, and the tabs fit on one row.
  • Checkout asks buyers outside the US for less of their address.
  • If Contexel can't be reached for a moment, the console keeps you signed in and keeps trying.

Start from anywhere, and see when your AI app is connected

  • Connect Contexel from your AI app before you ever open the console, and you get your own account right away.
  • The Connect page shows a light that turns green within seconds of your AI app's first call.
  • Connect lists Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor and OpenClaw as rows, and each row says in one line what setup takes.
  • A household or team can invite people from the welcome screen, before connecting their AI.
  • A new household starts with a shared Family workspace, and is recommended the Family plan from day one.
  • Checkout shows the same number of free trial days as the console.
  • Buttons work the same way on every screen: the main action stands out, and anything that deletes is shown in red text.

A welcome for new accounts, and shared rules that come first

  • Paid plans are available: Personal, Family and Team, alongside Free. See pricing.
  • A short welcome on first sign-in asks who Contexel is for: just you, your household or your team. Your answer sets up the right workspaces.
  • Admins can choose workspaces that always come first. When two workspaces hold a rule about the same thing, the one higher on the list wins, so a family or company workspace can set the rule everyone's AI follows.
  • Ask your AI "What are my Contexel suggestions?" to see suggested changes waiting for you, and accept or decline them. After a save, your AI mentions when some are waiting.
  • Each workspace card shows how many memories it holds, and a workspace's page shows its latest memories, five at a time.
  • A member is told when an admin opens their private workspace.
  • Someone invited from another organization can add that shared workspace to Claude or ChatGPT with its own address.
  • Fixed: signing up through Google or GitHub now finishes and opens the console.
  • Contexel runs entirely on Amazon Web Services, and the privacy policy says so.

Share with everyone at once, and start from inside your AI app

  • Share a workspace with everyone in your organization in one step. It includes people who join later, and ends for people who leave.
  • Add a memory yourself in the console, or bring in what ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini already knows: copy one request into the app, paste its answer back, and keep what you want.
  • Start from inside Claude or ChatGPT. Sign in there, and Contexel sets up your account without a visit to contexel.ai first.
  • Households get their own plan, Family, for up to 6 people.
  • Settings live in one place, with a side menu.
  • Contexel's replies to your AI are shorter and in plain words.
  • If a note that looks like health details or details about a child is saved where other people can read it, your AI offers to move it to your private workspace. Nothing is blocked.
  • Contexel is for adults: you must be 18 or older to use it.

Your account page, simpler sharing, and Download my data for everyone

  • Click your name at the top right for your account: how you sign in, a download of your data, and deleting your account.
  • Download my data is available to everyone: every workspace you can read, as plain text files.
  • Sharing works like a familiar Share window. Add people by name or email, and choose Can view or Can edit.
  • A Family workspace type, for plans, trips, schedules and household details.
  • Removing someone from your organization ends their access straight away, including access keys they made earlier.
  • An admin can delete the whole organization, with 7 days to cancel and a download offered first.
  • Every organization's memories are encrypted at rest with a key dedicated to that organization, from the moment it is created.
  • Earlier versions of the Terms of Service stay readable.

A new home on AWS, and a Health check that fixes what it finds

  • Contexel moved to Amazon Web Services, with daily backups.
  • The console's Health tile finds memories that need tidying, and fixes them in one click after asking.
  • New memories link themselves to the people, projects and topics they name.
  • Connecting with an account that has no access no longer leaves you stuck. Contexel says what happened and gives you a way to sign out and try another account.
  • Each change in a memory's history reads as one plain sentence, with who made it.

Terms of Service, and off-site backups

  • Contexel has Terms of Service.
  • Backups are kept off site.
  • Security fix: only organization admins can use the encryption controls.

Private by default, ready for launch

  • Error reports no longer carry anything you saved, your email or your workspace names.
  • Each customer's searches are kept apart from every other customer's.
  • The website loads nothing from Google, and counts visits without cookies.
  • Signing in from Claude keeps working even if our sign-in provider changes its address.

Archive and restore workspaces, and a documentation page

  • Deleting a workspace now archives it, and you can restore it in one click.
  • Delete forever, for privacy requests, also removes a workspace from its organization's history.
  • A documentation page covers every AI app, tool and setting.
  • A save interrupted by a server restart is finished or explained, never lost.
  • Every new workspace has a short description, which tells your AI what belongs there.

A privacy policy, plain roles, and notes that show up right away

  • Contexel has a privacy policy.
  • A note you save shows up in the very next lookup that clearly matches it.
  • Access is two plain roles: Can view and Can edit.
  • Your AI sees a shorter list of Contexel tools, and is told to save right away when you ask, without looking things up first.
  • Two people changing the same memory can't silently overwrite each other.
  • Connecting from Claude is faster.
  • The console's Connect tab adds a step that makes your AI use Contexel: a sentence to paste for Claude and ChatGPT, a rules file for Cursor, and a plugin for Claude Code.
  • Security fixes: a permission check now always looks at the workspace being read, and files from connected GitHub repositories are read more strictly.

A new homepage, faster lookups, and an AI that saves to Contexel

  • A new homepage explains in plain words why you would want one memory for every AI you use.
  • Each AI app has its own setup page, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.
  • When you say "remember this", your AI is told to save it to Contexel right away, not only to its own notes.
  • Lookups are much faster, with the same results.
  • Saved notes become searchable in seconds.
  • A lookup sends your AI only the memories that clearly match the question, which uses fewer tokens.
  • The console is simpler, and connecting your AI app comes first.