Where your memory lives

Your memory can live in our cloud, on your own machine and reached through us, or only on your computer. The app works the same with each; what changes is where the data is and from where you reach it.

	With us	With you	Only this computer
Where the data is	our cloud	your machine or server	your computer
Reached from	web, desktop, mobile, any agent	web, desktop, mobile, any agent, while your machine is on	the desktop app and agents on that computer
Account	yes	yes	no
Backups	ours	yours	yours
Set up in	the app, at sign-up	pcx start, then pcx connect	pcx start

With us

The default. Sign up at app.pcx.is and your organization gets a hosted workspace: the memory, the modules you turn on, backups. Nothing to install but your agent’s plugin. Start with the quickstart.

With you

Run pcx on your laptop or a server and connect it to your organization. The daemon opens one outbound connection to us; your people reach it through the app from anywhere, and its data never leaves its machine. When the machine is off, its space says so. How to connect: Connecting a daemon.

Only this computer

Run pcx on your computer and do not connect it. You need no account: the memory stays on this computer, and only the agents on this computer reach it. See installing the daemon.

Note

The desktop app will carry its own daemon and offer this choice at its first start, so nothing else has to be installed.

Changing your mind

The choice can be changed later in the app’s settings, and one account can have a hosted organization and a connected daemon at the same time; both show in the switcher at the top left. To move a memory between them, export it from one and import it into the other: see backup and moving.

The web and mobile apps offer the first two choices: a browser cannot reach a daemon on your computer directly. Running the whole cloud yourself is not offered as a product; if you need it, contact us.