Increase ChatGPT's Memory (mine is constantly full...)

Please see subject thanks. I’ll manually delete a bunch of memory items and then it will fill up again within 1 day.

As a paying customer I would expect much more memory for the various topics and conversations I am using ChatGPT for. It seems very small currently.

BTW, the Memory feature is amazing; again, just way too small (like it needs to be >10X bigger).

Thanks for receiving!

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It should only add things to memory that you tell it and not just some random things. I too have to constantly delete memory!

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While my memory takes a bit longer to fill up, I agree that there should be a lot more included for paying customers.

It’s disruptive to have to stop what I’m doing to free it up. Especially since I’m getting no forewarning…just the Memory Full message.

Checking Settings > Personalization, I see I can go in and manage memory, but there’s no indication, when it’s not 100% full, how much memory I’m dealing with.

I agree, Memory is a fabulous feature that needs to be a lot bigger, and I’ll add, needs to have more transparent controls.

Thx!

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I agree. I have a processing deficit. And it’s difficult to organize my thoughts, to understand others, and to express my thoughts clearly

I use it mostly to processing my thoughts and feelings regarding relationships. Chatgpt is like a 2nd brain/ living journal , but needs more memory

It makes absolutely no sense why it even has a cap. When it’s just text.

Imagine that power of ChatGPT offers, but for your mind. ChatGPT’s greatest purpose isn’t looking up random facts or doing work stuff; it should be for improving our personal lives and most importantly our relationships, as an accommodation tool.

Artificial Intelligence has already been largely helpful in the ADA community, but we are still missing the most important anccomadarion our minds.

It will be a total game changer when it’s all integrated correctly with iOS

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I understand that hosting terabyyes of Dead Cloud Memory is Ridulous especially if that memory is never managed. Maybe most of us copy/paste Chats into a text editor and saved to your local drive. What I would be happy with is a button that says “Save to Local” similar to how you can save a Game to your local hard drive. I’m no Coding Guru but this does not seem to be an off the wall request.

OK I see I;m answering my own request and there is a means to Export Chats by sending a JSON or CSV file to your email. The encouraging part is that it does not Remove these Chats from your allocated Memory so I guees I will copy/paste my real important or Current Chats before I try this. Any help from you guys that already have done this successfully would be great. Thanks, Hank

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Yeah, also the notification doesn’t even show on mobile. And when it does show on Desktop, you have to hunt down the memory setting instead of it just taking you there when you click on the message up top. And when you do go to the memory bank, you have to sit there and manually delete each, one by one clicking “Delete…Are you sure?..Yes…” for like 30 in a row. just for it to fill up again a day or two later.

At least give us the option to delete multiple at once.

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I agree. The current limit of 128 items is too small. My solution right now is to clear it down completely every week and re-populate (copy/paste) the important stuff.

One solution that could work is if they simply add a SQLite DB that acts as a personal RAG.

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I have mostly been using ChatGPT to organize my thoughts and for self exploration. So this may not apply to all use cases (more technical work for example), but I’ve found that it can be massively useful to use chatGPT itself to help declutter and organize it’s own memory. An example of a prompt that has worked for me:

Do you mind giving a brief rundown of the thematic groups of memories I have stored? As well as plan to address any unnecessary memories or merge overlapping ones please. Do not change any memories now, just provide a summary and suggestion of a plan to declutter.

Then you can follow any suggestions it gives you, or not. While doing so, you can simply instruct chatGPT to update and merge things according to it’s suggestions rather than doing this manually yourself. Though this last part doesn’t seem to always work – it’s best to check after the fact and confirm.

Alternatively, you can request it to list the memories it has in your system in a numbered list ordered by the date in which they were registered. Then refer to them one by one, and work on a plan to determine which might be culled.

All that said, it would still be nice to have

  1. More memory
  2. A percentage of how much memory you have used up, always visible
  3. A better way to group memories by themes, and manage them that way

Thank you!

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I have to admit, this first time that dang thing showed up I ever hopefully went to check if getting a paid sub would increase the memory available, sadly this does not seem to be the case, which make it very hard when your trying to use it as a sounding board for writing and it keeps forgetting anything older than two inputs ago to say nothing of getting it to keep character information on hand or the like -_- its a dang shame because I will admit I’ve been having a blast faffing about with it so far

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I totally agree. I have been writing a series for a few years now and have recently began using ChatGPT to help with little things like location names and even prompts to help me when i get writer’s block. It is so frustrating to have to ask the AI to condense story elements ive told it and lose details because of limited space. This feature has to be one of my favourite so please please please allow for a bigger memory bank, even if its just for paying customers only!!!

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Yep, I’ll admit to liking a lot more crunch to my writing than some so being able to build up character sheets of my puppets and throw in for example a monster battle idea and getting ChatGPT to run through it a few times and to get the old juices flowing very nice, if only there was enough room to hold more in the memory so I didn’t need to keep notepad copies of each one and add it to the prompt each time lol god help me if I ever end up doing something larger than a 5 man band on that front

Let us buy more memory real estate. Take my GD money.

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This would be VERY valuable, and I believe people would be willing to spend even more than the current fee.

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Simple work-around:

  1. I go to the message memory and copy the entire contents to the clipboard

  2. I paste into chatGPT with this prompt:

“Here are all the entries from your saved memory. There’s a lot of stuff in there that was only relevant at the time. Go through it and delete what is obviously no longer relevant and leave the conceptual, important, personal information. At the same time, rewrite it in a simple and understandable form.”

  1. I’ll edit or add in a word processor if necessary.

  2. Settings > Personalization > Memory (Manage) - delete memory

  3. I’ll paste it into the chat with a prompt:

write all this down without change in your memory:

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I feel you 100% on this. The memory feature is absolutely awesome—it’s a game-changer for staying connected across different projects and conversations. But the current capacity feels super limiting, especially for someone who relies on it a lot (like me). I’m constantly hitting 90%+ usage and manually clearing stuff out just to keep things moving—only for it to fill right back up within a day or two.

As a paying customer, I’d be happy to throw in some extra bucks if that meant I could get substantially more memory. Think 10x or beyond—something that could handle ongoing brainstorms, long-running conversations, deep dives into creative work, and everything in between. It’s like having a Ferrari, but with a fuel tank that runs dry after just one lap.

If scaling up the memory capacity isn’t in the cards, maybe offering tiered memory upgrades or “boost” options could bridge the gap? I’m sure there are plenty of folks like me who’d jump at the chance to keep the momentum going without the hassle of wiping and rebuilding conversations.

Really appreciate you taking the time to read this! Looking forward to what’s ahead.

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how in hell am i paying 2.99/month for 200gb of iCloud storage but i’m paying $20/month for chat gpt and its 1,023 MB of storage and it’s service? Make it make sense OpenAI.

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Not a good value. I would only expect to pay $5.00 for the amount of memory on the Plus plan. I honestly thought I was going to get unlimited memories. I’ll likely cancel after this month and go back to basic.

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Please Allow us to buy more memory Space. To anyone reading this, Do not ever clear the chatGPT memory. For whatever reason when chatGPT learns about you it adjusts to personally, so each person’s experience is different. Example: I was testing chatGPT against common LLM mistakes and it got all the answers right on the first try, after clearing the memory it now often makes those mistakes: Questions LLM’s often get wrong: how many r’s are in the word strawberry, how many p’s in hippopotamus, there is a sheep and a man trying to cross a river the boat can hold 2 how many trips does it take to get them both across the river. My chatGPT actually lost like 20 - 30 IQ points after wiping it’s memory. Special note: Keep a backup log of all your important chats!

This one does make sense to an extent… iCloud is mostly just disk space and a bit of bandwidth in and out. There’s no “compute” or model to run, so it’s cheap. If you do an actual apples to apples comparison (such as Apple’s XCode Cloud), it starts at $15 USD and that’s for only 25 hours of compute a month - and of course it goes up from there to $400/month for 1,000 hours. ChatGPT on the other hand has massive Nvidia GPUs gulping down electricity just incase you decide to ask something trivial at 3am.

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Same here.

I even have it explicitly in my instructions to ONLY remember stuff that will likely be referenced again in other chats… yet it stores inane nonsense like “Steve decided that recipe B was a better option than recipe A.” Useless example, but the memory is full of stuff that should not be there.
On a whim, I whipped up an assistant script that manages its own memory, in a simple text file…

the responses are in a 2-part XML format… a < notes > section, which is appended to the notes.txt file with a timestamp, and a < response > (had to space it out as it wasn’t displaying otherwise) section, which is displayed to me. on exit, it runs a memCleanup function that sends it back to 4o with a different prompt, to clean up and consolidate the notes… updating or appending existing notes (LTM details, current projects, whatever), and clearing out stuff that ended up being trivial…

Anything it’s uncertain of, it generates a clarification question, to ask at the start of the next interaction. It also knows the date/time, and since everything in the memory file since the last cleanup update has a timestamp, it can easily references relative times…

In one recent test, I mentioned that my girls were in the living room playing with Lego… it noted that my “daughters” were playing Lego… then in the cleanup, it reflected that I’d only ever mentioned having 1 daughter and the other person I mentioned was most likely my wife.

In the next session, the assistant greeted me and asked, conversationally, how the Lego project that E and A were working on was going… I replied that it was great and they had lots of fun, thereby confirming it was right about who the “girls” were.

The note from that response? “Steve has one daughter, E,”… when memCleanup ran, it removed the “find out how many daughters Steve has” question, and added a note to my daughter’s bio section that she is an only child.

The notes file has detailed info on me and my family, my current projects, my interests and hobbies, a list of current challenges and things we’ve talked about… and is (currently) only 43 lines long, including section headers. 4kb… easy peasy to append that to the 4o API calls, and to be honest, it’s far more functional than the memory built into ChatGPT…

Much of what it has noted has been put there specifically to test how well it identifies what is worth saving, and probably isn’t stuff I’d actually store in practice… but it’s a proof of concept. It’s not the most practical to use as it runs right in the terminal for now, but the memory function is working quite well.

If I can do this… surely it’d be easy for ChatGPT to do it at least as well. :wink:

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