Personal memory

Personal memory is one folder of memory that loads in every project, with any Claude profile: who you are, how you like to work. Claude Code has no such folder of its own, so Switchboard adds one line to your profiles’ CLAUDE.md that loads it.

Open it

• Open Settings (Command, Comma⌘,Control, CommaCtrl,) and choose Memory, or run Memory settings… in the command palette. See Settings › Memory.
• On a project’s Memory tab, the Personal (all projects) list shows the same memories.

The folder

Personal memory lives in Switchboard’s app data until you choose another folder:

~/Library/Application Support/Switchboard/memory

%APPDATA%\Switchboard\memory

The Personal memory card in Settings › Memory shows the folder, whether Claude Code loads it, and a MEMORY.md meter.

• Change folder… picks another folder. The memories already in the old folder stay there.
• Show in FinderFile Explorer opens the folder.

Sync it

Choose a folder in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or a git repository to have the same personal memory on your other computers. When the folder is synced, the card says so: anything you save there leaves this computer.

Load it in Claude Code

1. In Settings › Memory, click Add to Claude Code….
2. Check the preview: each profile’s CLAUDE.md before and after.
3. Click Add to Claude Code (Command, Return⌘↩Control, EnterCtrlEnter).

Switchboard adds this block to the end of each profile’s CLAUDE.md, after one blank line:

<!-- switchboard:memory start -->
@~/Library/Application\ Support/Switchboard/memory/MEMORY.md
<!-- switchboard:memory end -->

<!-- switchboard:memory start -->
@~/AppData/Roaming/Switchboard/memory/MEMORY.md
<!-- switchboard:memory end -->

The path is written with /, which Claude Code reads on Windows too.

• Only the index loads at the start of a session. Claude reads a memory file when it needs it, by the full path in the index.
• Nothing else in CLAUDE.md changes. When you change the folder, the block is updated where it is.
• Show the line shows the block as it is now.
• When some profiles don’t have the line (or it points at another folder), the card says so and Add to Claude Code… fixes it.

Spaces in the path are written as \ . If Claude Code doesn’t read such a path on your setup, choose a folder without spaces.

Remove it

Remove from Claude Code takes the block (and the blank line before it) out of each profile’s CLAUDE.md after you confirm with Remove the line. Claude stops loading your personal memory. The memory files stay where they are.

Add personal memories

• New in Personal memories (Settings) or Personal (all projects) (Memory tab) writes one. See Write a new memory.
• Move to Personal in a project memory’s menu moves it here.
• Remember this can save to Personal (all projects).
• Import from the Claude app puts who you are, your preferences, people and topics here.

Sync conflicts

A sync tool can leave two versions of a file: name 2.md (iCloud), name (… conflicted copy …).md (Dropbox) or name (1).md (Google Drive), next to name.md. The Memory tab shows such a file with a conflict label and two buttons:

• Keep this one keeps this version; the other goes to the TrashRecycle Bin.
• Keep the other keeps the other version; this copy goes to the TrashRecycle Bin.

Note

The settings backup holds the folder’s path, never the memories.

Settings

Everything on this page is in Settings › Memory.