✏️ Have you personalized your ChatGPT yet?

What a week it's been for OpenAI! As ChatGPT continues its rapid evolution, let's shine a light on one of its most powerful capabilities - the Memory feature.

This not-so-obvious tool lets you save shortcuts and personalize your experience, amplifying your productivity tenfold.

Let’s get you set up.

Step 1: Turn on ChatGPT's Memory

To start, we need to activate the memory feature.

• Log in to your ChatGPT account and head to Settings 👉 Personalization.

• Toggle the Memory feature ON

💡 Once activated, Memory helps ChatGPT keep track of your preferences. Simply type “Remember that…” or “Store:” and it will remember:

• The projects on which you’re working (e.g. “In project XYZ, we need to…”)

• Your preferences (e.g., regional spelling style, short/direct answers, Windows-based instructions only)

• Specific tools you're using (e.g. “I do my accounting in Xero”)

• Things you’re learning (e.g. “I’m learning Python”)

• Anything!

Step 2: Harness the Memory through Custom Shortcuts

The memory feature also allows you to create custom shortcuts, functioning like personal hotkeys that streamline your interactions with ChatGPT. 

Simply send these commands to ChatGPT in a new conversation to save them to memory:

• Store: '!search' to prompt an Internet search

• Store: '!image' to generate an image

• Store: '!data' for Advanced Data Analysis

Step 3: Use Shortcuts Like a Pro

Using your shortcuts is as easy as adding them before your query:

!search + your query = output with cited internet search results as seen in the red box:

• !image + description = custom image generation.

• !data + your request = data-driven insights in moments.

Step 4: Fine-Tune or Delete Shortcuts Anytime

Head back to the Memory Manage section in Settings to make updates as your needs evolve.

• Want to delete an old shortcut? Use the trash can icon to clear out anything outdated.

• Need to add new ones? Just follow the instructions in Step 2 again.

🔒 FYI: What ChatGPT won’t do

• It won’t remember anything sensitive (passwords, financials, personal details unless it's something like a business address you've explicitly given me to keep).

  
  You can tell it to forget anything, any time—just say: “Forget X.”

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From around the AI traps

• A Dartmouth study confirms AI chatbot therapy produces clinically significant mental health benefits in first trial

• Google’s new Gemini 2.5 Pro dethrones the competition confirming the industry-wide shift toward chain of thought reasoning in AI models

• A breakthrough neural interface enabled a paralyzed patient to speak naturally by translating brain activity directly into speech with minimal delay

• ChatGPT’s image creation update is wild and is now free for all users. Take a look at the results of my lazy prompt and equally lazy picture

The results 👇

I wonder if it can produce a photo of me with 6-pack abs? Now that’s a challenge!

See you next week,

Adam