Bower can personalize its help in three different ways. They have different
authors, audiences, and purposes.
All three are available on every Bower plan.
Personal preferences
Personal preferences are a note you write for Bower. Use them for details
you want to state directly, such as the depth of explanation you prefer, your
field, or how you want results formatted.
For example:
Set or update them in Settings → Preferences → Personal preferences for
Bower. Keep them focused on preferences that are likely to remain useful.
What Bower remembers
What Bower remembers is a list of lasting details Bower has learned from
working with you, in chat and in live mode. For example:
- Your research focus, such as the organisms, cell lines, or questions you work
on
- Methods, reagents, instruments, and settings you prefer or avoid
- Your lab’s conventions, such as how you name samples
- Anything you ask Bower to remember: “remember that I always block in BSA”
Bower does not keep one-off details, such as what happened during a single
experiment or protocol run.
Bower learns in the background after a conversation pauses, so a new memory can
take a few minutes to appear. It never slows Bower’s response to you. When you
start a new conversation, Bower brings your most recent memories with it, and it
can look up older ones when a topic comes up.
Memories stay in their workspace
Memories are private to you and belong to the workspace where Bower learned
them. If you work in more than one workspace, Bower does not carry a memory from
one workspace into another. Other members of your workspace, including owners
and admins, cannot see or edit your memories.
Workspaces that handle protected health information (PHI) do not keep learned
memories. Personal preferences and workspace instructions still apply there.
Review, edit, or remove memories
Open Settings → Preferences → What Bower remembers to view, edit, or delete
any memory. If Bower learned something slightly wrong, edit it rather than
deleting it; Bower uses your corrected version from then on. Deleting a memory
removes it permanently.
When you delete your Bower account, all of your memories are deleted with it. When a workspace is deleted, the memories that belong to it are deleted too.
Workspace instructions
Use workspace instructions for the
guidance a whole lab or organization should share with Bower: terminology,
standing conventions, and team-wide expectations. They are not a place for
your personal preferences or private learned memories.
Put a preference in the layer that owns it: write your own preferences,
review Bower’s learned memories, and keep team guidance in workspace
instructions.
