# Decisions, dead-ends & dreams > Source: > Published: 2026-06-15 08:32:45+00:00 Your AI assistant is sharp in the moment and blank by morning. Neonmem gives it a memory that lives with your project — and the interesting part isn't just *that* it remembers, it's *what* it keeps and *how* it keeps it. Neonmem doesn't dump your chat history into a search box. It keeps your project as distinct kinds of memory — the way a good teammate carries a project in their head: Because each memory is a real, meaningful unit, your agent can *reason* over them — connect a decision to the dead-end that caused it, or a plan to the rule it has to respect — instead of just keyword-matching. Your memory isn't a flat list. It's organised into zones, the way thoughts settle in a brain: You can literally **watch the zones glow and shift in a live 3D view** as the memory grows — a brain filling in, session after session. This is the part people love. Like a mind, Neonmem **sleeps and dreams**. In a quiet consolidation pass it revisits everything it has gathered — strengthening what keeps proving useful, letting the noise fade, and finding connections between ideas it didn't notice in the moment. What started as scattered notes wakes up as understanding. So the memory doesn't just *grow* — it *matures*. The longer you work together, the more it actually gets your project. All of it **local, private, and yours**: one file on your machine, no cloud, no third-party model reading your work. source: [https://neonmem.com/devlog/decisions-dead-ends-dreams](https://neonmem.com/devlog/decisions-dead-ends-dreams) [Try Neonmem](https://neonmem.com/) · Windows & Linux · free for personal use