How the stylist remembers, and how to make it forget

You mention once that the office runs cold. Three weeks later you ask what to wear on Monday, and the answer starts with a layer. That's the stylist's memory doing the one job it has: holding on to the things about you that its view of your closet can't show it.

It can already see your clothes, what's clean, what you've worn lately and the weather where you are. Memory is for the rest. A wedding next month. No wool on bare skin. Flats for anything over a mile.

It asks before it writes anything down

When you tell the stylist something that will still be true next week, it doesn't quietly file it away. It offers to keep it, with a card in the conversation and two buttons, Apply and Dismiss. Nothing is written until you tap Apply. Leave the card alone and it expires after a day.

Once you've applied it, a small line in the conversation confirms it: Remembered, and the note itself.

The same goes for everything else the stylist offers to change. Saving a look, sending something to the wash, adding to a packing list: each arrives as a proposal, and each waits for your tap.

What it won't keep

The stylist is built not to keep notes about your body: height, build, weight, measurements, skin, hair. Not even if you tell it. It is told never to propose them, and a check on the words stops any that slip through, once when the card is made and again when you tap Apply.

It also doesn't carry conversations into each other. Each conversation stands alone: the stylist reads the one you're in and nothing from the others. What crosses from one conversation to the next is your closet and what you've worn, the style you've told it you like, and the notes you've kept.

It can see your clothes. Memory is for the rest.

Where to read it

Every note is in one place. Open the stylist, go to your conversations, and tap the gear for Stylist settings. The section called What Dresd remembers lists each note with its kind, and an event shows the day it runs until.

If the list is empty, the stylist hasn't been asked to keep anything yet.

How to make it forget

There are two ways, and both are quick.

• In settings: tap the bin beside a note. It goes at once.
• In the conversation: say "forget that the office runs cold". The stylist proposes forgetting it, and once you tap Apply, a line confirms it: Forgot, and the note.

To change a note rather than drop it, tap it in settings and edit the words or its kind. A wedding that moved, a preference that softened: correct it instead of starting again.

Once a note is struck out, the stylist leaves it out of every answer from then on. It is erased for good when you delete the closet it belongs to, or your account.

Each closet has its own memory

A household can keep several closets in one account, and each keeps its own notes. Tell the stylist in your closet that the office runs cold, and it won't start dressing your daughter in layers.

Each closet holds up to fifty notes.

When you delete everything

Deleting a conversation can't be undone; it's gone from the app at once, and from our servers, with any photos in it, within thirty days. Deleting a closet takes its notes and its conversations with it. Deleting your account takes all of it, including everything the stylist remembers.

To see what the stylist remembers about you: open it, tap the gear, and read "What Dresd remembers". Strike out anything you'd rather it forgot.
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