Five everyday ways to use personal context with AI
Use personal context for everyday AI tasks. See practical examples for email, planning and study, with AI Passport carrying selected context between permitted tools.
Personal context helps an AI answer fit your situation. A useful preference can save you from correcting the same thing every time you ask for help.
AI Passport holds selected context that connected assistants can use with your permission. You can review a preference in Passport and reuse it in another permitted tool.
Start with information that changes the answer. These examples show what that looks like in ordinary tasks.
1. Get an email draft closer to your own style
“Write like me” gives an assistant very little to work with. A preference such as “Use British spelling and put the request near the start” is easier to follow and check.
Save that preference to Passport through a connected assistant. Review the wording, then try it on your next routine email.
Retrieve my writing preferences from AI Passport. Draft an email asking a colleague to confirm the meeting date below. Do not invent missing details.
Supply the actual date in the conversation. Saved writing preferences shape the style; they do not supply facts you have not established.
If you keep changing the same part of every draft, improve the preference. “Keep routine emails concise” is more useful than an instruction to keep every answer short.
2. Make a weekend plan fit your pace
An itinerary can be full of good places and still be a terrible way for you to spend a day.
If you prefer a slower pace, save that as a preference. Keep the current destination and budget in the prompt because those may change next time.
Use my planning preferences from Passport. Suggest a Saturday in York with two main activities and time for lunch. I have £45 to spend excluding travel.
Check changing facts such as opening hours with the venue’s current information. Knowing your preferred pace does not establish that a museum is open.
3. Continue studying in a different AI tool
A useful study memory can describe the subject and the kind of practice you want. For example, you may want one worked example before trying a new question yourself.
Save a specific preference rather than a label about your ability. “Ask me to attempt a question before showing the answer” helps the assistant teach. “Bad at maths” is an unhelpful conclusion to preserve.
Retrieve my study preferences from Passport. Use the syllabus extract below to explain this topic, then ask me a new question and wait for my attempt.
A second permitted assistant can retrieve the same preference. You can change tools without spending the first few minutes explaining how you want the session to work.
4. Get meal ideas you can actually make
Save ordinary cooking preferences that you repeatedly mention. You might prefer vegetarian meals that use one pan.
Keep tonight’s ingredients and available time in the current request. The assistant needs that information to suggest something practical.
Use my cooking preferences from Passport. Suggest dinner using chickpeas and spinach. I have a hob and twenty minutes.
Read the method before deciding it fits. A recipe that requires an hour in the oven has ignored your equipment and time limit, however appealing its title sounds.
Treat allergies and medical diets separately from casual food preferences. Verify relevant requirements rather than relying on an assistant’s recollection.
5. Carry a project decision between assistants
Projects often leave important decisions buried in a long conversation. A concise memory can give the next assistant a reliable starting point.
Include the decision’s status. “The venue is still being discussed” should not become “The venue is booked.” Read the proposal in Passport before approving it.
Retrieve the approved context for my workshop project. Use the outline below to draft an update. Keep open questions separate from confirmed decisions.
When a decision changes, update the context you want reused. Keep the authoritative document available when exact wording or a financial commitment matters.
Choose what deserves to stay
A statement is worth saving when you expect to need it again and are comfortable with its intended use.
You can let different assistants use different categories. A writing task does not require every piece of context you have saved. Review the access selected during connection and any later pass requests.
For the first test, compare a new answer with the preference you approved. Look for a real improvement, such as fewer changes needed to the email’s tone. An assistant mentioning that it knows you is not much of a result by itself.