> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orbitagents.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Never losing your work

> How Claude remembers your rules and files — and why Orbit means a new laptop or fresh chat no longer means starting over.

Claude needs to know two things to be useful: *where your stuff is* and *what your rules are*. The old way of giving it those lived on your computer — and broke the moment anything changed. Orbit fixes that. Here's the plain version.

## The old way: it all lived on your machine

When you work with Claude on your computer, it learns about your project from your **folders** (where your files are) and from notes you leave it about your preferences ("always write in this tone," "never touch this file").

That works — but it's fragile, and here's the problem nobody tells you:

* **New laptop?** It's all gone. You start over.
* **New chat?** Claude forgets. You re-explain everything.
* **Switch from chat to a scheduled agent?** They don't share anything.
* **Working in two places?** Each one knows different things.

Your memory was trapped on one machine, in one place. Lose the machine or open a new window, and you're back to square one.

## The Orbit way: your memory lives in the cloud

Orbit moves all of that off your computer and into one shared place that every tool reads from. Your rules, your decisions, and everything your AI has produced live in your **Vault** — not on a hard drive.

So now:

* **New laptop?** Connect Orbit, and everything's still there.
* **New chat?** It already knows your decisions and your past work.
* **Scheduled agent?** Reads the same memory as your live chats.
* **Two computers?** Both see the same brain.

You stop being the one who has to remember and re-explain. That job moves to Orbit.

## What this means for you, practically

You barely have to think about folders and setup files anymore. Instead of writing rules into a file on one computer, you just **tell Orbit a decision once** — "always quote the \$49 plan," "our brand voice sounds like this" — and every tool, on every device, follows it forever.

→ [How to set a decision](/use/update-decision)

## The short version

> The old way kept your AI's memory on one computer, where it broke easily. Orbit keeps it in the cloud, so nothing is ever lost — change devices, open a new chat, switch tools, and your AI picks up right where you left off.

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