Glossary
Every Esment word in one or two plain sentences, with a link to the page that explains it.
A – F
Admin token
The key that apps on your Mac use to reach your local memory. You find it in Settings → Connection and should treat it like a password. See Web assistants & your Mac.
Agent Plugin
A package that installs a local memory server next to your assistant, with a skill and hooks that load your memory before the assistant answers. See Cursor & code editors.
API key
A secret that lets your own code or tools read and write a workspace without signing in. See API keys & SDK.
Assistant
Any AI app that uses your memory, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity or Grok. See How connecting works.
Auto summary
A memory Esment writes by itself, titled “Everything known about…”, that gathers the facts about one person, project or topic. See How memory works.
Cloud
Your memory stored on Esment’s servers, used by the web dashboard, web assistants and sync. It is optional. See Start on the web and Where your data lives.
Connector
The entry you add in a web assistant’s settings so it can talk to Esment. It holds your memory address and a way to sign in. See ChatGPT and Claude.
Context Pack
See Pack.
Dashboard
The place where you manage your memory: the web dashboard at esment.notas.ai/app and the Mac app’s main window. See Tour of the dashboard.
Embeddings
Numbers that capture the meaning of a text, so search can find “flat” when you saved “apartment”. On the Mac they are computed on your computer. See Where your data lives.
Entity
A person, project, place or idea Esment finds in your memories. You do not create them. See Knowledge graph.
Evergreen
The Mac app’s name for a pinned memory: one that is never archived or aged out automatically. See Find, edit & forget.
Forget
Remove a memory from what your assistants see. You can do it from the list or by telling an assistant “forget that”. See Find, edit & forget.
G – O
Graph
A map of the entities, memories and tags in your memory and how they connect. See Knowledge graph.
History
A calendar of every change to your memory: saved, edited, forgotten or archived. See History & Time Travel.
Library
The collection of pages Esment writes from your memories, sorted by path such as entities/acme. See Library.
Local model
An AI model that runs on your own computer instead of a provider’s servers. See Run a local model.
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
The open standard that lets an AI app connect to tools such as Esment. Esment exposes its memory as MCP tools. See How connecting works and MCP tools reference.
Memory
One small thing worth remembering: a fact, a preference or a decision. See How memory works.
Memory Block
A named note you keep up to date, such as Soul, Facts, Persona or Project, that assistants read at the start of every chat. See Memory Blocks.
Memory address
The web address, ending in /mcp, that you paste into a web assistant. See Web assistants & your Mac.
OAuth
The standard sign-in a web assistant uses to get access to your memory, so you never paste a password into it. See MCP tools reference.
P – Z
Pack
A single file with your memories, including archived ones, that you can export and import. Also called a Context Pack. See Account & security.
Page
A longer article about a person, project or topic, written from many memories. Pages live in the Library. See Library.
Pin
Mark a memory so it never fades and is always part of the brief assistants read. See Find, edit & forget.
Quick Capture
On the Mac, the ⌥C shortcut that opens a small note to save a memory from any app. See Capture & import.
Recall
When an assistant looks something up in your memory. It happens through the session brief at the start of a chat and through searches later. See How memory works.
Reranker
A second model that reads your question next to each search candidate and puts the ones that truly answer it on top. On the Mac it runs on your computer.
Session brief
A short summary prepared in advance of the people, projects and preferences that matter, your pinned memories, your Memory Blocks and your recent work. An assistant reads it before it answers. See How memory works.
Sync
Keeping the Mac app and a cloud workspace in step. It only adds: it never deletes on the other side. See Start on the web.
Teach
Give an assistant a short note, once, so it uses Esment on its own. See Teach your assistants.
Time Travel
A view of your memory exactly as it was at a past moment. It changes nothing. See History & Time Travel.
Tunnel
A temporary secure web address that points back to your Mac, so web assistants can reach memory stored there. See Web assistants & your Mac.
Usage profile
The topics you want your assistants to use Esment for, such as a client or a project. See Teach your assistants.
Voice note
A recording plus its written transcript, made on your own device. Your assistant turns what matters into memories. See Voice notes.
Workspace
A separate memory with its own memories, history, API keys and people. Every account has a default one for you. See Workspaces & members.