Knowledge & memory
How your assistant stores documents and remembers context — and how to browse both.
Your assistant gets more useful the more it knows about you and your world. Telsi keeps that in two distinct stores — knowledge (documents and content you give it) and memory (what it learns about you in conversation) — both private to your instance.
Knowledge: your private document base
Knowledge is the reference material your assistant can draw on when answering: documents, articles, notes — anything with substance you want it to be able to cite or summarize later.
Adding documents
Add documents by sending them to your assistant in chat. Send a file in Telegram, and it lands in your knowledge base; your assistant confirms and can answer questions about it from then on.
Uploading documents directly from the dashboard is coming soon. For now, chat is the ingestion path — and in practice it's the fastest one, since you're already there.
Browsing knowledge
You can see everything in the base from two places:
Both are read-only viewers — full transparency into what your assistant knows, with no way to accidentally corrupt it from a settings screen.
Memory: what it learns about you
Memory is different from knowledge. It's the running context your assistant builds across conversations: your preferences ("short answers, no emoji"), recurring facts ("my timezone is CET"), and things you've explicitly asked it to remember.
You manage memory the same way it gets created — in conversation:
- "Remember that I prefer metric units."
- "What do you remember about my schedule?"
- "Forget what I told you about that project."
The Memory tab (Mini App) and Memory page (dashboard) show the current contents, so you can audit exactly what's stored at any time.
Private by architecture
Both stores live on your dedicated instance, on storage attached only to your machine. There is no shared database of customer documents, no cross-tenant index, and nothing is used to train models. One customer, one instance, one private store — if you cancel, the instance and its storage go away with it.
Connected services
Your assistant can also reach into services you explicitly connect. Notion support just shipped: connect your workspace from the dashboard's Connections page, and your assistant can use your Notion content when answering — without copying it into the knowledge base.