--- slug: console title: "Console menu guide" description: "Saving and searching happen in your AI; the console is where you build and maintain the ways in. What each of the six menu groups does." lang: en --- # Console menu guide Saving and searching are done **by your connected AI, with `ak`.** The console ([app.aiakiv.com](https://app.aiakiv.com)) is everything around that. **creating teams and projects, changing the save target (Main), and inspecting and managing what's accumulated.** This page maps what each console menu does. > **The one-sentence principle.** The console is for *setup, management, and > checking.* Do the day-to-day saving and searching in your AI, and think of the > console as somewhere you drop into occasionally to maintain the ways in. ## Layout - **Top bar**: the **AiAkiv logo** on the left (goes to www.aiakiv.com), and on the right **team picker**, **language**, and the **account menu** (email ▾). - **Left sidebar**: the six menu groups below. On mobile, open it with the **☰** at the top left. The menu groups are **Teams · Projects · Data · Operations · Support · Reference.** --- ## Teams: managing the owner of memory Memory is owned by teams (see [Teams and projects](teams-and-projects)). This group handles them. - **Teams**: the teams you belong to, including the personal team created at signup. **Explore (public read)** teams can also be attached here. You connect **read-only** with no invitation or membership, and to write you use a project in your own team. - **Team structure**: shows **who can read what** inside the team as a tree (the permission tree). Admins **assign and remove** members up and down it here, and where needed move a memory's access scope (its ACL node). Author and tags don't change. - **Audit log**: recent **permission governance actions.** Admins see the whole team; other members see only their own. Come here to retrace "who changed permissions, and when." - **Links**: make and cut **the ways in to another team's memory.** Visible **only to the team owner.** Proposing and accepting, checking the 'readable now' conditions, and tuning aliases (name connections) all happen here. The **public attach** that ties a public memory into your team is on this screen too → [Links](links) · [Public memory](public-memory). - **Link history**: the record of when a link was made, changed, and cut. It's kept **for both teams**: it makes no sense for your access to be cut without the affected party seeing it. ## Projects: the ways into team memory A project is a **way in** to team memory (not a warehouse). - **New project**: create a way in. Set the **name, domain, group (sub-folder), persona (the role the AI takes on this way in), and TTL**, and get the **MCP config snippet** and **API key** to attach to your app here. - **Project management**: the list of projects you've made. Set a project as **Main** to change where saving currently goes (the active target), copy MCP config, or delete a project. **Switching the save target happens only here, by a person**: an AI can't change it itself. - **API key management**: issue and re-issue per-project API keys. **A key is shown in full only once, at issue time**, so copy it then. Re-issuing invalidates the previous key. ## Data: inspecting what's accumulated (read-only) Everything here shows **only what you can read.** What you see in the console is for checking; the actual searching is easier from your AI ([Searching](searching)). - **Summary**: the **node tree** you can read in the current team and the **number of memories (events)** per node. - **Search**: search **by meaning** within your read scope. Each result shows the node it's saved in. - **Browse**: page through memories in your read scope **in save order.** - **Analyze**: see frequently occurring **entities and their cohesion**. It's meaningful once some memory has accumulated ([Core concepts](core-concepts)). - **Edit**: **edit and merge entities and tags** directly in the console (four tabs: **entity edit, entity merge, tag edit, tag merge**). It's the curation tool for finding duplicate entities and merging or retiring them. **Team owner and admins only.** - **Cards**: manage the **public cards** you had an AI create (list, copy address, images, delete, search visibility). Creating happens in your AI, not here. Cards here are **already public** → [Cards](cards). ## Operations: usage and moving data - **Usage**: events used against the limit, per team. Teams you own appear here. - **Billing**: your current plan and upgrades. Checkout and invoices open in the **billing portal**. Enterprise is by arrangement (contact us). - **Export / Import**: move the knowledge graph in and out of AiAkiv. Export one of a team's domains in the open-source **MemoryWeft format (`.mweft.tar.gz`)**, or import self-hosted MemoryWeft data wholesale (events, entities, tags, edges, embeddings). **Team owner and admins only.** ## Support: contact - **Contact**: leave a question and you get **a reply by email.** Write in whatever you're stuck on, or a bug. ## Reference: announcements, install, usage, settings - **Announcements**: service notices and urgent bulletins. New notices also run as a **banner at the top of the screen**, and urgent ones pop up once. Past notices are collected in this menu. - **Install**: **how to connect** AiAkiv to the AI you use (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, and so on). Gives per-app config and copyable snippets. (Same content as the [setup guide](https://www.aiakiv.com/setup) on the web.) - **Usage**: **basic usage guidance** for saving, tagging, searching, and chained saves. You can also have your AI walk you through it step by step. - **Help**: a **searchable reference of AiAkiv's terms and concepts** (memory, team, project, save target, event, entity, tag, persona, MCP, and more). Type a word in the search box at the top and it filters live. - **Tips**: the [tips page](https://www.aiakiv.com/learn) collecting the **click-through learning slides** (opens in a new tab). - **Demo**: the [demo tour](https://www.aiakiv.com/tour-demo) where you ask questions of a sample built from a real development record (opens in a new tab). - **Settings**: change the **theme (dark/light)** and the **language.** - **Danger zone**: **deleting a team** and **closing your account (full account deletion)**. Everything on this page is **permanent** and cannot be undone. --- ## Top bar and account menu - **AiAkiv logo (left)**: goes to [www.aiakiv.com](https://www.aiakiv.com). - **Team picker**: choose the team you're working on (the Data and Projects screens are scoped to it). - **Account menu (email ▾)**: **theme and language**, **API key management**, **Danger zone**, **sign out**. ## Common confusions - **"Saving doesn't change."** → The save target (Main) is changed by a person in **Project management.** An AI or tool can never change it ([Teams and projects](teams-and-projects)). - **"I can't see a memory."** → Check the **team** you currently have selected and your **read scope.** The Data screens show only *what you can read* ([Common problems](faq)). - **"Can't I save from the console?"** → Saving and searching are done **in your connected AI, with `ak`.** The console is where you create and manage the ways in.