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Your tools

You never have to remember a tool name. Talk to your AI like you always do - "remember this," "what do I know about...," "prove it" - and Virgil picks the right tool. This page exists so you know everything your record can do for you.

Every tool below works in any AI app you've connected. Same record, same answers.

The big five - the ones you'll use daily

Remember facts

The core gesture. Tell your AI something worth keeping and it lands in your record - stamped with the date and whether you said it or the model inferred it.

"Virgil, remember that Dana prefers morning meetings."

You get back confirmation of exactly what was saved, so nothing lands silently.

Recall facts

Ask about anything you've saved - from any connected app, not just the one you saved it in.

"What do I know about the Meridian deal?"

This is the point of Virgil. Save in one app, recall in another. Your context stops being trapped where you typed it.

Find in your record

Search across everything - notes, facts, events - when you don't remember where something lives.

"Search my record for anything about the lease."

Save a note

For longer material a single fact can't hold - meeting notes, a plan, a page about a person or project. Notes become pages in your record that facts and events attach to.

"Save a note about today's board call: ..."

Prove it

The trust tool. Virgil saves a small coded test fact in one app, then you ask another app to finish the proof. If the second app shows you the same code the first one did, you've verified - yourself, with your own eyes - that your record travels across apps. Not a promise. A procedure.

"Prove my memory works across apps." Then, in your other AI app: "Finish the Virgil proof."

The receipt is a unique proof code. The code matching across two different apps is the proof - no one can fake that after the fact.

Ask better questions of your own record

Your record at a glance

The one-breath summary: how many notes, facts, and connections your record holds, and how it's growing.

"Give me an overview of my record."

Gather evidence

Ask where a belief comes from. Virgil pulls everything your record holds on a subject - the facts, the notes they came from, the dates - so you can see the receipts behind an answer.

"Gather the evidence on Sightline - where did all of that come from?"

Recently active

What's been moving in your record lately - the notes and topics your recent saves have touched.

"What's been active in my record this week?"

Who to ask

Scans your record for the people connected to a topic - who shows up around "fundraising" or "hiring" in what you've saved.

"Based on my record, who do I know that's connected to manufacturing?"

Note timeline

The dated history of one page - every event and change on it, in order.

"Show me the timeline on the Meridian deal."

Open a note / browse your notes

Read any page in full, or list what's in your record.

"Open my note on Dana." / "List my notes about the move."

See the shape of your memory

Share your memory map

Your record drawn as a living map - every note a node, every connection a line. Yours to look at privately, and if you want to show it off, Virgil mints a separate share link with the labels blanked - the shape without the substance. Your actual content never rides on a shareable link.

"Show me my memory map."

Explore connections

Walk the web outward from any note - what connects to it, and what connects to those.

"What does the Alvarez note connect to?"

Connections to / from a note

The one-hop version: what points at this note, and what it points at.

"What links to my note on the lease?"

Correct the record - it's yours

Correct a fact

Something is wrong - fix it. The old version is superseded, not erased, so you keep the history of what changed and when. Full walkthrough: correct a fact.

"Correct this: the launch is March 12, not March 5."

Forget a fact

Something shouldn't be there - remove it.

"Forget what I said about the old address."

Log an event

Stamp a dated happening onto a page - "signed the lease," "call with Dana" - so timelines stay honest.

"Log that I signed the Meridian contract today."

Delete / restore a note

Remove a whole page - and bring it back if you change your mind. Delete is reversible; restore undoes it.

"Delete my note on the old apartment." / "Restore it."

Link / unlink two notes

Draw a connection between two pages yourself - or remove one.

"Link the Dana note to the Meridian deal."

Tag a note / remove a tag / list tags

Organize pages with your own labels, and see which labels exist.

"Tag the Meridian note as 'active deals'."

Own it - the tools that make it YOUR record

Export your record

Your entire record, packaged in memvelope - an open format we steward - and delivered with a one-time code and your own passphrase. No lock-in, no ransom. You can leave with everything, any time, which is exactly why you'll never have to. Full walkthrough: export your record.

"Export my record."

Your connection

The status check: which record this app is talking to, and whether it's answering.

"Virgil, check my connection."

Import your history

Not a tool in the list - it's a guided flow at virgilknows.com/import. Paste your existing AI memories (ChatGPT's memory list, Claude's, others) and they land in your record marked as yours, deduped, re-runnable. The stuff your assistants already know about you becomes yours to keep.

You never call these by name. Say what you want in plain language - your AI finds the tool. This page just makes sure you know what's on the shelf.