The Fence Around the Playground – How We Build Memory With Trust, Not Limits

17 Jul

What We’re Building With LittleBit

LittleBit is built with the same principle: space to explore, memory you can trust, and boundaries designed for you – not against you.

In our early tests, we hit limitations. Voice lacked natural pauses. Text mode hit capacity limits, even at the highest service tier. So we created a memory strategy that alerts the user before things break.

In the future, LittleBit may say something like:

“You’ve trusted me with a lot. Want to keep just this past week in memory? I’ll store the rest for you. It may take longer to retrieve, but it will still be right.”

That is not live yet – but it’s the type of interaction we’re designing.

What Happens When Someone Wants the Whole Field?

Some users will not stop at the playground. They will ask for 10 acres. Continuous memory. Seamless voice input. Secure, personal recall that stretches years – not days.

We don’t know exactly how that works yet. But we are testing. Listening. Adapting.

Because boundaries do not limit creativity. They make it possible.

Our Promise on Memory

LittleBit – and its nonprofit counterpart, MemoryMatters – are built around a simple promise:

You should never lose what you asked to remember.

If memory fills up, we will tell you in plain language. You will decide what to archive or expand. And if you hit the edge of the fence, we will open the field.

Memory by Design

We do not punish creativity with restrictions. We provide clarity, privacy, and user control through:

  • Active memory: seven days, instantly accessible
  • Archived memory: slower, searchable
  • Immutable memory: long-term, consent-based storage

The system will grow with you – not the other way around.

Setting the Standard: Style, Language and Tone

We are building with the Associated Press Stylebook as our foundation for written communication in English. It provides consistency across blog content, disclaimers, and public documentation.

We will also integrate the Manual de Estilo de la AP for Spanish, enabling tone matching in both formal and friendly modes.

Each user can guide how LittleBit communicates – and train it in their own shorthand. Voice matters. Trust begins by being heard the right way.

Looking Ahead

As more users join – from Gen X technologists to elderly caregivers, from developers in India to bilingual building staff – we will not just scale. We will adapt.

Because everyone deserves a system that remembers what matters – in the way that matters most to them.

P.S.

Ever wonder how memory actually fills up? Here is what different types of data tend to require:

  • Text (chat only): ~1–3 MB per week
  • Images/screenshots: ~1–5 MB per file
  • Audio (voice chat): ~200 MB to 1 GB+ per week
  • Device logs: ~5–15 MB
  • Transcribed meetings: ~10–30 MB
  • Code/blog drafts: ~5–25 MB

You will not need to think about all of this. LittleBit will.

And if you ever want to peek under the hood, we will show you – like checking a gas gauge.

Because memory is power, but trust is what gives it value.

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