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+title: A map of what Claude actually remembers
+slug: claude-memory-map
+date: 2026-06-25 09:00:00 -0400
+excerpt: Claude keeps separate memories in different places, and which ones
+  follow you around depends entirely on how you use it. So I built an
+  interactive map.
+published: true
+---
+Claude's memory is scattered across more places than most people realize — and
+which memories follow you around depends entirely on *how* you're using it. A
+standalone chat draws on your account-level memory; a chat inside a Project
+draws on that Project's own store instead. Claude Code running in WSL keeps a
+set of notes your Windows-side Claude Code never sees. Claude Code on the web
+reads only the repo's `CLAUDE.md` and nothing else. Cowork has its own
+per-project memory again.
+
+I kept having to re-derive all of this from memory — ironically — every time
+someone asked me "wait, will it remember that?" So I built a small thing to
+answer the question once: an interactive map of every place Claude stores
+something, and how it flows in and out.
+
+Check the ways you actually use Claude and the diagram composes itself — no
+pre-baked variants, it's generated live from your selection. There's a scope
+lens to ask the two questions that usually matter ("what follows me across
+projects?" vs. "what stays put?"), and a toggle for the full, official
+Anthropic terminology when you want the precise names rather than the friendly
+ones. It's one self-contained page; nothing you check is sent anywhere.
+
+The permanent home is here — **[Claude Memory Map](/tools/claude-memory-map/)** —
+and it's embedded below so you can poke at it without leaving the page:
+
+<!-- html-embed:start -->
+<div class="post-embed">
+<iframe
+  src="/assets/tools/claude-memory-map/"
+  title="Claude Memory Map — an interactive map of what Claude remembers"
+  loading="lazy"
+  style="width:100%; height:80vh; min-height:560px; border:1px solid #E4DFD4; border-radius:8px; background:#FDFBF7;"></iframe>
+<p style="font-size:0.85em; margin-top:0.5rem;">
+  Trouble with the embed? <a href="/tools/claude-memory-map/">Open the full-page version →</a>
+</p>
+</div>
+<!-- html-embed:end -->
+
+The whole thing is open source — the
+[code is on GitHub](https://github.com/Adam-S-Daniel/claude-memory-map) — and
+every store, edge, and label traces back to documented Anthropic behavior
+(where the docs and the shipping app disagreed, the app won). If you spot
+something that's drifted out of date, a pull request or a note is very welcome.