Nourva Mind

Memory that works for you

Nourva Mind is Nourva's memory of you: your tastes, the people in your life, your plans and your work. With it, you do not have to explain yourself again in every conversation. It learns as you use Nourva and tidies itself every night.

One memory serves all of Nourva. The chat, Nourva One, Arachne, the Office and your employees read the same memory, on iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Watch and CarPlay. To open it, tap Nourva Mind, the last seat in the bar at the bottom of the screen.

What it keeps

Nourva sorts what it knows into families: Who you are, Your tastes, Your work, Hard facts, Our moments, Your pulse, How you do things, What lies ahead, My hunches and Skills. Each memory also records where it came from.

You can read every memory in full, change it, forget it or add a new one. See See, fix, forget or add what Nourva knows.

The rules it follows

Nourva's memory follows written rules, and your word sits above all of them.

• It never invents. A guess always looks like a guess, and it waits under My hunches until it is confirmed.
• Your word outranks everything it remembers.
• When your life changes, the old fact stays in its history with the reason it changed, and today's truth leads.
• An allergy, a medicine, your family, your money: when two answers disagree, it asks you which one is true now.
• What it remembers informs it. Only you give it orders.

Which plans include it

Nourva Mind is part of Professional, Ultimate and Max. Starter and guests have no memory: on Starter, the Nourva Mind seat opens a page that says Memory starts at Professional.

On Professional, Ultimate and Max, memory switches on by itself the first time you use Nourva, and it lives in your encrypted cloud vault. A card says so: Your memory is on now — encrypted with your key, never trained on, never shared. Arachne and Nourva remember you from here. Tap Got it to keep it, or Turn it off. You can change where it lives, or switch it off, at any time. See Turn memory on and choose what remembers.

If your plan ends, your memory is closed but not deleted. It works again when you move back to a plan that includes it.

Nourva Mind also comes on its own, for the AI tools you connect, on the web only. Mind Free costs nothing; Mind Starter (US$3.99 a month), Mind Plus (US$12 a month) and Mind Max (US$29 a month) give it more room; Mind Plus and Mind Max also learn from your day every night. You choose, buy and manage a plan on the web, in your Memory room under Developers; it is never sold in the app. Every paid Nourva plan already includes the whole Mind, and changing or ending a plan never deletes a memory. See the Nourva Mind page.

Where to go from here

Open what Nourva knows

Every memory Nourva holds about you is listed on one page, What I know about you. You can read each one, change it, forget it or add your own.

1. Tap Nourva Mind in the bar at the bottom.
2. Scroll to the card What Arachne knows about me. It shows how many memories are held about you, and how many sit in each family.
3. Tap the number. What I know about you opens, with Back at the top.

The page reads your cloud memory, so it needs Fully cloud with Allows Arachne to remember on. If memory is off, the card says Memory is off — turn it on from the memory page. See Turn memory on and choose what remembers.

Find a memory

Each line is one memory, newest first, with how long ago Nourva kept it.

• Filter by family. Tap a family at the top, such as Your tastes or What lies ahead, to see only its lines. Tap it again, or tap All, to see every line.
• See more. The page shows the first lines. Tap the button under them that says how many more there are, such as 12 more, and Show less to fold them away.
• My hunches. What Nourva has guessed but not confirmed sits in its own family, so a guess never passes for a fact.

At the end of the page, a note says whether Nourva is learning from our talks or reading only.

Read, change or forget a memory

A tap on a line opens nothing, so you cannot change a memory by accident. Instead:

• Touch and hold a line to read it whole: its family, where it came from and when, and the full sentence. If Nourva kept it in another language, the original is under it. Edit and Forget are there too. Tap outside it to close.
• Swipe a line to the left to show Edit and Forget beside it. Keep pulling past the middle of the line and let go to forget it at once.

Edit asks Edit what I know about you with the memory's words filled in. Change them and save, and Nourva confirms with Saved — I read it from now on. Forget removes the memory, and Nourva confirms with Forgotten — it will not come back.

Add something Nourva should know

At the end of the page, tap Add something I should know. Nourva asks What should I know about you? Write it in your own words and save. It goes under Hard facts, and Nourva confirms with Saved — I read it from now on.

Tell Nourva instead

You can also tell Nourva in the chat what to remember or forget.

Remember that I'm vegetarian.

Forget that I like jazz.

A clear order to forget is carried out at once. If you sound unsure, Nourva asks first and names the exact lines it would forget. Everyday phrases are not orders: "forget it", "I want to forget about work", a quote or a "what if" leave your memory as it is.

In short

On Memory & permissions, under How your memory works, Nourva puts its promises in four lines:

• Always encrypted — with a key derived for your account alone
• Separate per account and per surface — Chat never sees the employees' workspace
• Never used for training, never shared with anyone
• You own it — export or fully delete at any moment

Your memory is also never sold and never used for ads.

Where it lives

You choose where your memory lives, on Memory & permissions.

See Turn memory on and choose what remembers.

Who can read it

Each part of Nourva reads your memory only while its switch on Memory & permissions is on: Allows Chat to recall, Let Office remember, Allows Arachne to remember and Allows One to remember. Your employees follow Nourva's memory. A chat in Incognito neither reads nor adds to it. See Chat in Incognito.

When you import from another assistant or a file, what it says about other people is held apart and counted on the receipt, never mixed into what Nourva knows about you. See Bring your memory from another assistant.

The rules it keeps

• It never invents. A guess looks like a guess and waits under My hunches.
• Your word outranks everything it remembers.
• An allergy, a medicine, your family, your money: when two answers disagree, it asks you.
• What it remembers informs it. Only you give it orders.

Your controls

For the full terms, read the Privacy Policy and how Nourva is protected on the Security page.

Choose where your memory lives

Your memory has three settings, and you choose between them on one page. Open it like this:

1. Tap Nourva Mind in the bar at the bottom.
2. Tap Memory & permissions.
3. Tap Fully cloud or Fully on-device.

The line at the top of the page says which one you chose. Your choice is saved to your account, so your other devices follow it. For memory across the chat, Arachne, the Office and your employees, choose Fully cloud.

Turning memory off does not delete it. To delete it, see Download or delete your memory.

The first time on a paid plan

On Professional, Ultimate and Max, if you have not chosen yet, memory switches on by itself the first time you use Nourva, as Fully cloud. A card then appears on Memory & permissions and above the Chat and Arachne boxes:

Your memory is on now — encrypted with your key, never trained on, never shared. Arachne and Nourva remember you from here.

Tap Got it to keep it on, or Turn it off to switch memory off for your account.

While memory is off, a strip above the Chat and Arachne boxes reads Memory is off — turn it on for a personal experience. Always encrypted, never used for training, never shared. Tap Turn memory on to open Memory & permissions, or close the strip. Once closed, it stays closed on that device.

Choose what remembers

On Memory & permissions, a switch for each part of Nourva decides whether it may use your memory. Fully cloud turns them all on, and you can turn any of them off.

Your employees follow Nourva's memory and have no switch of their own. Like the setting above, the switches follow your account to your other devices.

One conversation without memory

For a single chat that leaves no trace, tap ⋯ in the chat, then Use Incognito. The chat shows Incognito — no history, no memory: it keeps no history and adds nothing to your memory. See Chat in Incognito.

On Starter

Starter has no memory. There, Nourva Mind opens Memory & permissions with Memory starts at Professional and the line Upgrade and Nourva keeps your context, style and preferences in an encrypted vault. To move to a plan with memory, see Upgrade or change your plan.

If your plan ends, your memory is closed but not deleted, and it works again when you return to Professional, Ultimate or Max.

Bring your memory home

You do not have to start from nothing. Nourva can read what another assistant, your files or your photos say about you, weigh it against what it already knows, and keep what is yours. Open Nourva Mind and scroll to the card bring your memory home. Under its tiles, the card reads encrypted and every safe format, and says you can undo an import.

Importing writes to your cloud memory, so it needs Fully cloud with Allows Arachne to remember on. See Turn memory on and choose what remembers.

From another assistant

1. Tap Other AI.
2. Ask the other assistant to "tell me everything you remember about me", copy its answer, paste it in the box and tap Import what I pasted.
3. Or tap Choose its export file and pick the export you downloaded from that assistant: the archive as it came (.zip), or the .json or .html file inside it.

To get an export, look in the other assistant's settings under Data or Privacy, then Export. From an export, Nourva reads only your own words, never the other assistant's replies, and the newest conversations come first.

From files and photos

• Files takes several files at a time: .txt, .md, .csv, .json, .html, .pdf, .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .epub, .odt, .rtf, or an archive (.zip). A document that is too large is skipped, and the app says so. Archives, .json files and long text can be much larger.
• Camera takes several photos or screenshots at a time.

If there is nothing about you in what you chose, Nourva says Nothing about you in there.

While it runs

The card shows how far the run has gone, and its three stages: reading, weighing against what I hold and routing to layers. Tap Cancel to stop. What came in before you stopped stays, and you can still undo it.

You do not have to wait. A large import keeps going when you leave the screen or lock your phone. If it is too big to come in at once, Nourva says Today's share is in. The rest goes on by itself tomorrow — I'll tell you when it's all in. If an export holds more than one import can take, the newest comes first and Nourva tells you. When it is done, a notification says Your memories are in, and the receipt waits on the card the next time you open Nourva Mind. You can turn these notifications on or off in Settings › Notifications › Nourva Mind.

The receipt, and undo

Every run ends with a receipt headed weighed against what I hold. It shows numbers only, never your memories themselves.

• your word wins: where the import disagrees with what you told Nourva, your word stays.
• the old enters already aged: older facts come in with their age, so today's truth leads.
• about others — held: what the import says about other people is held apart, with its count.

The tiles count New memories and what was Already known, show the Layers touched, and give Undo a time limit. To take a whole run back, tap Undo this run and confirm Remove everything this run added? When the undo time is up, the receipt says undo window closed, and you can still forget any single memory. See See, fix, forget or add what Nourva knows.

Check what Nourva holds

• Teach-back. Nourva explains back, in a few lines, what it holds about you. Tap Correct if it is right, and the card says became certainty. Tap Fix it to see the memories behind it, each with a button to forget it.
• Contradiction hunt. Nourva shows pairs of memories that disagree. Tap keep this on the true one, and the other is forgotten. When nothing disagrees, it says No contradictions in what I hold.

Learning as you go

While your memory is on, Nourva learns from what you do with it: your chats, your talks with Nourva One, Arachne's missions, your work in the Office and your employees. Each part with a switch on Memory & permissions learns only while that switch is on, your employees follow Nourva's memory, and a chat in Incognito teaches it nothing. See Turn memory on and choose what remembers.

Every memory keeps where it came from, such as you told me or I understood it. A guess is never stored as a fact: it waits under My hunches until it is confirmed.

The night's work

Each night, while you sleep, Nourva reads back over the day and tidies what it knows:

• It merges what you said more than once into one memory.
• It retires what has changed, and keeps the reason in its history, so today's truth leads.
• It links memories that belong together.
• It closes plans whose day has passed.

Each night leaves a receipt. On the Nourva Mind screen, the Last Night reading shows what the night built, and The night opens the Night monitor: the hours it ran, how many memories it swept and refreshed, how many became certainty, and the Receipt no. Before the first night, it says The night's numbers have not reached me yet.

The mood line

Each night, Nourva also writes one line about how your days have been. It is honest and never a score. Your own words outrank its guess, and when nothing shows, the line stays empty.

The line sets the tone when the chat, Nourva One, Arachne, the Office and the Financial Market's analyst talk with you. Nourva does not bring it up on its own. Ask, and it tells you:

How have my days been lately?

Your word of the day

Each day, the Chat home asks How are you, really? and the seat at the top reads Daily mood. Choose one of five words, from Heavy through Low, Okay and Calm to Bright:

1. Slide up or down along the five words, or tap one, to choose it.
2. Tap again, or tap Set, to keep it.
3. Nourva answers I hear you., and the card says Set for today.

The card shows once, then comes back after a while. If you have not given your word, the Emotional Weather reading on the Nourva Mind screen says Tap to tell me. Nourva keeps your word of the day with your memory, and never turns it into a score.

The living document

Nourva also keeps a document about you, in its own words. It is rewritten every night, it helps in every conversation, and it is part of your export. On the Nourva Mind screen, My document of you shows its length and when it was last rewritten.

How well do I know you?

Tap Nourva Mind, the last seat in the bar at the bottom. The screen opens with one question, How well do I know you?, and answers it with a number out of 100 and a word. The word changes as the number grows, from still meeting, beginning and know you well to old friend and as you know yourself.

Tap the number to see How it adds up. Before the first reading, the screen says No reading yet, and while memory is off, My memory is off. A line under it says your memory is encrypted on Nourva's servers with your account's key, with the number of the last night receipt.

The screen shows numbers, never your memories themselves. To read them line by line, see See, fix, forget or add what Nourva knows.

Today and the days before

Under the answer, Today sits between two arrows, with the recent days beneath it. Tap an arrow or a day to see that day's readings. A past day shows as this phone saw it: the numbers this device recorded that day. Tap Back to today to return.

The readings

Some readings start after my first night, once Nourva has done its first nightly review.

Vitals and the verdict

Vitals are the live counters of your memory's upkeep, such as freshness, nights built and the Receipt no. The heading says how many are live. A counter that needs your attention shows a mark and the words needs attention.

Under them, one verdict sums up the numbers: Still meeting, Deep, Deep, the night catching up or Steady and deep, with a line on what it means and the hint tap any number for its arithmetic.

Further down

To learn what the night does, see How Nourva learns every night.

What your Mindprint is

Your Mindprint maps how you think across six dimensions: Agency, Decision, Energy, Social, Stress and Curiosity. It is a short conversation, and each question is written for you from your earlier answers, so no two people get the same questions.

At the end, Nourva writes your report: a profile with its own name, your score in each dimension, and the way Nourva will treat you from then on. Taking it uses credits.

Start it

1. Tap Nourva Mind in the bar at the bottom.
2. Scroll to Mindprint and tap Open Mindprint.
3. Under Which language shall we talk in?, type any language or dialect, then tap Send.

The questions and your report come in the language you chose.

Answer the questions

A count shows how far you have come. Each question comes in one of four forms:

• cards to choose from;
• two choices, numbered 1 and 2;
• a scale from 1 to 10, with a word at each end;
• a question you answer in your own words.

While Nourva writes your next question, it says Nourva is shaping your next question from your answers… After the last answer, it says Nourva is writing your final report now…

If the connection drops, you see Couldn't reach the analyst right now. Your answers are kept: tap Resume to go on where you stopped.

Read your report

The report opens with your profile: its name, a line about you and a short description, with how confident the reading is and how many questions it took. Three tabs follow.

Under the tabs, Key Insights lists what stands out about you.

Share it or take it again

• Share report turns your report into a picture and opens the share sheet.
• Copy copies your profile and your six scores as text.
• Retake starts a new Mindprint at once.

A line under the buttons counts down to your Next cycle, but you can retake it whenever you like.

Your Mindprint stays on your phone. With Fully cloud, it is also saved to your account, so Nourva can use it everywhere, and the Mindprint section of the Nourva Mind screen shows your six dimensions. It is part of your memory export.

Download your memory

1. Tap Nourva Mind in the bar at the bottom.
2. Open Memory & permissions.
3. Tap Export vault.

Nourva says Preparing your export…, then opens the share sheet so you can save the file, send it to yourself or open it in another app. It is a JSON file named nourva-memory followed by the date. If it cannot be made, you see Export failed · try again.

The file holds:

• a short note in English and Arabic on what the file contains;
• your profile, your preferences and your recent work;
• your daily personality document and your Mindprint profile;
• what is kept only on that device, such as what you asked Nourva One to remember there;
• your memory's stored layers, as they are.

Exporting changes nothing in your memory.

Delete your memory

1. Open Nourva Mind › Memory & permissions.
2. Tap Manage deletion. The sheet Delete cloud memories opens: This deletes your entire cloud memory vault across every product — facts, preferences, work history and the daily persona. It cannot be undone.
3. Type DELETE in the box under Type DELETE to confirm.
4. Tap Delete memory permanently, which Runs immediately and cannot be undone. To keep your memory, tap Cancel and stay.

If something goes wrong, you see Deletion failed · try again, and nothing has been deleted.

What happens after

• Your memory in the cloud is erased, for every part of Nourva, and Nourva confirms with Your cloud memory is fully deleted.
• On that device, what Nourva One kept there and your Mindprint are cleared too.
• What Arachne learned on your missions goes with it.
• Memory is switched off. To begin again, choose Fully cloud or Fully on-device on Memory & permissions, and a new memory starts empty.

Your account, your plan, your credits, your chats and your Office projects stay as they are.

Your memory or your account