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Essentials · Lesson 4 / 6 ~4 min Beginner
Capture
Recall
Connect
Reuse
AI conversations contain context a one-line summary loses: what you asked, how the tool reasoned, and the exchange that led to the answer. Mem’s Threads keep the whole session so you can find it later.

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What you’ll accomplish

You’ll save a genuinely valuable AI conversation into Mem and find it again by searching.

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Watch how it’s done

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Manual or automatic import

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Browser extension import

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Your turn

Use a real conversation for the steps below. They describe the real app. To practise the retrieval part first, click Start the simulation for step-by-step hints in the popup.
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Pick a genuinely valuable AI conversation

Choose a real session where you solved a problem, made a decision, or produced something you’ll want again. Skip trivial back-and-forth — pick something worth finding later.
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Save it into Mem

Open Threads → Import → Find AI conversations. Mem scans this machine’s coding-agent conversations and imports them.
Using a web AI chat? Install the Nowledge Mem Exchange browser extension to capture the current session. You can also import a single conversation from a Markdown file in Threads → Import.
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Confirm it's in Mem

Open Threads from the sidebar (or press Cmd + 3 on macOS) and check that the conversation is there.
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Search it back

In Threads, search for a detail only that conversation contains. It comes back.

Start the simulation when you’re ready. The Playground will open from the right.

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What you should see

The conversation you saved appears in Threads, and searching a detail from it finds it.
Can’t find it? Make sure the conversation finished importing, then search again using a word from its title or content.

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Why this matters

A thread keeps the full process: what you asked, what the tool answered, and how the work changed. A summary loses much of that. When part of a conversation is worth keeping, distill it into memories that join your knowledge graph and appear in later searches.

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Go deeper

Want to understand how Threads work and how to distill them into memories? Read the threads page in the Nowledge Mem Docs.

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Next lesson

Next you’ll learn: let Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or other tools access Mem.

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