--- title: "Memory: find anything by what it links to | Tidy" description: "Everything you do in Tidy links to something. Search, the Tidy assistant and your virtual employees follow those links to find anything, within your access…" url: https://www.tidy.engineering/memory last_updated: 2026-09-25T00:35:42.000Z --- 01 / Memory # Everything you do links to something. An email comes from a person. A task comes from the email. A meeting is about the task. Tidy keeps every one of those links, and they are how you find things later. Search, the Tidy assistant and your virtual employees all follow the same links, within the access you give them. Where the links come from ## You do the work. The links follow. Nobody files anything. Links come from the ordinary things you already do. 01 ### You mention it Type @Maya or link a task in a note, a document or a spreadsheet cell. The mention is a link. 02 ### You make one thing from another A task from an email, notes from a meeting. The new thing keeps the old one attached. 03 ### You put it somewhere A task in a project, an employee on a task, a person at an organization. 04 ### Tidy suggests the rest It reads your mail for people, dates and relationships, and asks before it adds them. Start with a person ## Follow the links around Maya. Open Maya's network to see who and what connects to her. Follow a link to the note or message behind it. Maya Chen / Network View full size ![Maya Chen connected to Leo Park, Sofia Rivera, Theo Brooks, Northgate Retail Group and a Harbor Street note. Source links are enabled. Fictional demo.](https://www.tidy.engineering/img/c191/maya-network.webp) Tidy's Network view. Fictional people and notes, linked for this demo. Find the thing you meant ## You don't need the exact phrase. Search matches the words, what they mean, and what they link to. 01 ### The words you know A name or a reference number, wherever it appears. Maya Chen 02 ### What you remember The discussion, even if you can't recall how anyone phrased it. The pickup times we agreed 03 ### What it links to The meeting and the person turn up too, not only the email with the word in it. Maya Northgate Leo One click away ## Open anything. The rest is beside it. Every record has a Linked references panel: the emails, tasks, notes and people that point to it, with a live count. Whoever opens it next, you, a teammate or Penny, starts from the same place. ### Chase the signage proofs **Linked references (5)** Signage before the 12th? · email Harbor Street opening · project Thursday walk-through · meeting Walk-through notes · note Penny · virtual employee Less catching up ## Your employee starts with the context. Ask Penny for a client brief. She follows the links to the notes and messages first, then shows you the sources behind what she wrote. [Meet your first virtual employee](https://www.tidy.engineering/virtual-employees) ### Before the next client call Find the latest conversation. Check the people and work it mentions. Open the sources behind the answer. You still review what she drafts. Useful over time ## Keep the history. Find what's relevant. Recent and often-used things rank higher. Older material stays findable without crowding the results. ### Your activity is your call Turn usage learning off and search stops using it to rank. Your content stays searchable. ### Your access rules still apply Memory, search and employees see only what their permissions allow. Offline, Tidy searches the text stored on your device. AI search needs a connection. Keep going [Memory Find anything.](https://www.tidy.engineering/memory) [Automation Hand off repeat work.](https://www.tidy.engineering/automation) [Collaboration Work on the originals.](https://www.tidy.engineering/collaboration) [Virtual employees Set up your first one.](https://www.tidy.engineering/virtual-employees) Tidy · Private beta · Fictional demo content [Back to the thread](https://www.tidy.engineering/#thread)