Most apps promise to keep your things safe while they are around. This is a different promise. Saving forever writes an encrypted copy of a memory to a permanent address. We manage the key. Then use the recovery kit so you don't rely on Giant Mind to access your memories.
It is an unfamiliar idea, so this page explains it plainly. Where something is still being built, it says so.
Most things you keep live in Giant Mind. A few you save forever.
Saving forever makes three things. A permanent address. An encrypted copy stored at that address. And a key. We manage the key so your saves open in Giant Mind.
Your next step is the recovery kit. Download it after your current Giant password and a passkey on giantmind.ai. The kit holds the addresses and keys so you don't rely on Giant Mind to access your memories. We still manage the key so your saves open here.
We manage the key. Forget forever destroys the key. The encrypted copy stays at the address.
This card is the onboarding version, drafted for the app but not yet wired into it. Everything below is the long answer.
It makes three separate things. The first is a permanent address. Think of it as a bookmark tagged with when the memory was saved and what kind of thing it is. The second is the memory itself, an encrypted copy stored at that address. The third is the key. We manage the key so your saves open in Giant Mind. The address says something is there. The encrypted copy is the thing itself. Your library keeps working as normal alongside both.
As an encrypted copy at a permanent address. We manage the key. The copy stays at that address after you save it.
You, the people you authorize, and Giant Mind. We manage the key so we can show you the memory while you are logged in. Then use the recovery kit so you don't rely on Giant Mind to access your memories. The address names the encrypted copy.
A short line shown on the memory itself. It names the encrypted copy. Going there gets you the sealed copy. We manage the key that reads it in Giant Mind. The recovery kit holds a copy of that key for you.
Nothing changes about the copy already written. Saving again makes a fresh encrypted copy at its own address, and the earlier one stays exactly as it was. Every save keeps the version before it.
No, and it should not be. Most of what you keep lives in your library, which is searchable, editable, and deletable like any normal app. Saving forever is a deliberate act for the small number of things you would be upset to lose.
Writing an encrypted copy at a permanent address is paid once at the moment of writing, and that payment covers the file for good. Giant Mind buys those writes in advance, so each plan comes with a number of forever saves rather than an unlimited allowance.
Nothing you already saved is affected. You keep using Giant Mind normally, and the Save forever button says you have none left rather than failing quietly.
No. Writing the encrypted copy is paid once. The copy stays at the address. We manage the key.
A file with the address for every memory you have saved forever, the keys that read those copies, and instructions. Your next step after Save forever is to download it after your current Giant password and a passkey on giantmind.ai. The kit is how you keep access without relying on Giant Mind. We still manage the key so your saves open here. This file still works if you Forget forever.
Use the recovery kit. If you already downloaded it, that file still works without us. We still manage the key and can still read until you Forget forever. If you never downloaded a kit, we still manage the key and you do not have personal access outside Giant Mind.
Download it again while you can still sign in. We still manage the key. Forget forever destroys the key we manage. A kit you already downloaded still works.
Yes. Share a memory in Giant Mind, memory by memory. You set who can see it. We manage the key. There is no way to unsee what has already been read, so treat it like handing over a printed copy.
No, and neither can we. That is what permanent means. What you can destroy is the key. Forget forever destroys the key. The encrypted copy stays at its address exactly as it was.
Forget removes the memory from Giant Mind. The encrypted copy at the address is untouched, and we still manage the key. Forget forever also destroys the key, so the copy stays but cannot be read.
No. It is the one action in Giant Mind with no path back, which is why it asks you to confirm in writing and names what survives before what does not.
Every other product that keeps your notes is also the thing that reads them back to you. Save forever writes an encrypted copy at a permanent address. We manage the key. Then use the recovery kit so you don't rely on Giant Mind to access your memories. Forget forever destroys the key. The copy stays.
Building it the other way means giving up control of the copy. Once a memory is written, Giant Mind cannot edit that copy. Forget forever destroys the key. That is the point, and it is also why it is rare.
