Pieces
Pieces is an AI memory layer for modern work, capturing your research, chats, emails and meetings in the background to form searchable memory, and bringing real context into various AI tools through MCP.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Pieces?
Pieces defines itself as "the AI memory layer for modern work," and the official description states that it "builds artificial memory from your work, allowing you to recall decisions, pick up where you left off on interrupted tasks, and bring real context into every AI tool." Unlike assistants that only respond in chat dialogues, it continuously captures your activities across various applications in the background, turning what has already happened into understandable and reusable work memory. Its official website lists that it can connect to numerous sources including Gmail, Outlook, Chrome, Slack, Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Notion, Figma and more.
Who is it for?
- Team members who switch between Gmail, Slack, meetings, and documents every day and often need to "retrieve what was said at that time".
- Developers and knowledge workers who want to enhance the output of various AI tools with real work context.
- Privacy-conscious users who value local privacy and want data to be stored on the device by default.
- Busy people who need to quickly generate morning briefings and daily reviews.
Key features
6Work Memory Timeline
Captures research, chats, emails, notes, meetings and more chronologically, allowing you to search, filter and review any moment.
Search by Time/Topic
You can ask questions about a specific time, topic, person, or tool to accurately locate the information you need without scrolling through records.
One-click Brief Generation
Instantly generate stand-up meeting updates, morning briefings, meeting preparations, and daily reviews from real context.
Forming memories every 2 seconds
The official description states that it forms a memory every 2 seconds from the apps you use, covering current focus, copy-paste actions, and more.
Privacy-first
Stored locally on your device by default, fully controllable and deletable by users, with sensitive data never needing to be uploaded to the cloud.
MCP Integration
Bring your memory into your favorite assistants and AI tools via Pieces MCP.
How to use Pieces
- Install the desktop version to authorize core apps first: Start with the most frequently used categories such as email, chat, and calendar for memories to have value.
- Make good use of search instead of re-reading: To find a certain decision or the key points of an email, just ask by time or topic, which is faster than flipping through records.
- Control the collection scope: Stored locally on the device by default, but cross-application collection is relatively sensitive.
- Confirm the collection and deletion policies in the settings first.
- functions and packages may be adjusted, so recheck before official use.
- Pay attention to memory usage and permissions: It runs continuously in the background and captures a lot of data, so keep an eye on device resources and capture toggles.
- Use MCP to connect your frequently used tools: Let your memory flow across multiple AI tools and avoid information silos.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Pieces receives about 264.6K visits per month and ranks #149,396 worldwide.
Monthly visits
12 monthsTraffic sources
- Search44.1%
- Direct38.2%
- Referrals11.8%
- Social3.6%
- Mail1.1%
- Other1.1%
Top countries
- United States13.4%
- United Kingdom7.0%
- Israel6.9%
- India5.7%
- Vietnam3.4%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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