# Keep in Mind
> Keep words, a picture or a link from a chat, a document, your phone or your computer, find it again in Kept, and let Dvina bring it back when it matters.
See something worth remembering, like a line in a contractor's quote, a clause in a lease or a recipe? Keep it, and Dvina keeps it in mind for you. You can find it again anytime, ask about it, and Dvina can bring it back when it matters.
## How it works
- What you keep is words, a picture or a link. Dvina keeps it with where it came from, like the chat or the app.
- Everything you keep shows in **Kept** in your Feed, and Dvina finds it when you ask.
- What you keep becomes part of what Dvina knows about your life, so it can bring it back at the right moment. Keeping something never sends you an alert by itself.
- Only you see what you keep.
## Keep something in a chat
You can keep from your chat with Dvina and from a task's chat.
- **Words:** Select the words in a message, then choose **Keep**. The words stay marked in the message, so you can see what you kept.
- **A whole message or a picture:** Right-click the message or picture (touch and hold on a phone), then choose **Keep**.
**Kept in mind** appears for a moment. To take it back right away, choose **Undo**.
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> To ask about the words instead, select them and choose **Ask**. They go into your message as a quote, so you can type your question.
## Keep something in a document
1. Open the document and select the words you want to keep.
2. Choose **Keep**.
To keep a picture in the document, right-click it (touch and hold on a phone), then choose **Keep**. The words you kept stay marked in the document. Click a mark to **Ask** about it or **Forget** it.
If the document changes later, what you kept stays as it was. Its card in **Kept** says **From an earlier version** and opens that version.
## Keep something from another app
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=== iPhone
1. In any app, like Safari, Photos or Notes, select the words or open the picture or page.
2. Tap the share button, then tap **Keep in Mind**.
Nothing opens: **Kept in mind** appears with **Undo**, then goes away by itself. If you aren't signed in to Dvina on your iPhone, Dvina opens so you can sign in.
**Dvina** in the share sheet still opens a chat with what you shared. **Keep in Mind** only keeps it.
=== Android
1. In any app, select the words or open the picture or page.
2. Tap **Share**, then tap **Keep in Mind**.
Nothing opens: **Kept in mind** appears with **Undo**, then goes away by itself.
**Dvina** in the share menu still opens a chat with what you shared. **Keep in Mind** only keeps it.
=== Mac
The Dvina app for Mac needs to be open.
1. In any app, select the words you want to keep.
2. Press ⌥ ⌘ K.
A **Kept in mind** notification appears, with **Undo** and **Ask Dvina**.
To keep part of the screen instead, press ⌥ ⌘ K with nothing selected, drag over the area, then choose **Keep in Mind**. Press Esc to cancel.
The first time, Dvina asks for the permissions it needs to read what you selected and to see the screen. To change the shortcut, open Settings › **General** and find **Keep in Mind shortcut**.
=== Windows
The Dvina app for Windows needs to be open.
1. In any app, select the words you want to keep.
2. Press Ctrl Alt K.
A **Kept in mind** notification appears, with **Undo** and **Ask Dvina**.
To keep part of the screen instead, press Ctrl Alt K with nothing selected, drag over the area, then choose **Keep in Mind**. Press Esc to cancel.
The first time, Dvina asks for the permissions it needs to read what you selected and to see the screen. To change the shortcut, open Settings › **General** and find **Keep in Mind shortcut**.
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## Find what you kept
1. Open the Dock and choose **Library**.
2. Open the menu at the top of your Feed and choose **Kept**.
Words show as quotes and pictures as they are, each with where and when you kept it. Click one to open it where you kept it, like the message in its chat. Something you kept from another app opens its page or picture.
You can also just ask, in your own words: "What was the allowance in the cabinet quote I kept?" Dvina finds it in what you kept and shows where it came from.
## Use something you kept in a chat
1. In the message field, type /.
2. Under **Kept**, choose what you want Dvina to use. To find something older, type a few of its words.
It's added to your message, so Dvina answers with it in mind. You can also open an item's menu in **Kept** and choose **Use in chat**.
## Forget something
- **In a chat:** Select the marked words and choose **Forget**, or right-click the message (touch and hold on a phone) and choose **Forget**.
- **In a document:** Click the marked words, then choose **Forget**.
- **In Kept:** Open an item's menu and choose **Forget**, or select several and delete them.
**Forgotten** appears for a moment; choose **Undo** to bring it back. What you forget moves to **Recently Deleted**, where it stays for 30 days, then it's permanently deleted. To restore it before then, open the menu at the top of your Feed, choose **Recently Deleted**, then choose **Restore**. See [Library and Feed](/docs/use-dvina/features/library).
## How it helps Dvina help you
What you keep tells Dvina what matters to you. It becomes part of what Dvina knows, alongside your chats, files and apps, and Dvina connects it with what happens later.
For example, you keep the line "Bright & Co. includes permits" from a contractor's quote. Weeks later, their invoice arrives with $1,200 for permits. Dvina notices and tells you, with a reply ready to send.
Dvina brings something back only when it truly helps. To learn more, see [Proactive and Feed](/docs/use-dvina/features/proactive).
## Your taste, in what Dvina makes
The pictures you keep, like a kitchen you love or a poster's colors, show Dvina your taste. When Dvina makes an image, a canvas or a board for you, it follows that taste and can use the kept pictures closest to what you asked as references. It tells you which kept pictures it leaned on.
To leave a picture out, forget it. Dvina stops using it right away.
## Keep from other apps with MCP
Apps you connect to Dvina with MCP, and the `dvina` command, can keep words or a link for you, list what you kept and, with your approval, forget something. See [Keep in Mind tools](/docs/dvina-mcp/keep-in-mind).
## Privacy
- **Only you see what you keep.** Keeping words in a shared chat or document doesn't show them to anyone else or tell anyone.
- **Your company's rules apply.** What you keep goes through your workspace's data protection rules, as in the rest of Dvina. If a rule doesn't allow it, it isn't kept, and Dvina says why.
- **Forgetting is up to you.** Forget anything anytime. It stays in **Recently Deleted** for 30 days, then it's permanently deleted, and Dvina no longer uses it.
- **Clearing memory keeps what you kept.** **Forget Everything** in Settings › **Memory** clears what Dvina remembers about you, including what it learned about your taste. The things you kept stay in **Kept** until you forget them.
For more, see [Privacy and data](/docs/help/privacy-and-data).
## Related
- [Library and Feed](/docs/use-dvina/features/library)
- [Proactive and Feed](/docs/use-dvina/features/proactive)
- [Memory and settings](/docs/use-dvina/features/memory)
- [Keep in Mind tools](/docs/dvina-mcp/keep-in-mind)