# Saving context - advice requested!

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/saving-context-advice-requested/29468
**Category:** FAQs
**Created:** [3 July 2020 20:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/saving-context-advice-requested/29468 "2020-07-03T20:54:50Z")
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### Author: ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [4 July 2020 09:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/saving-context-advice-requested/29468/7 "2020-07-04T09:55:21Z")

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Here is something I wrote back in 2018 which you might find useful

> [@A guide to understanding 'Persistent Context'](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/a-guide-to-understanding-persistent-context/4115):
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> This is something I wrote up after playing with the context options. I've filed a PR with some of this added to the Node-RED documentation but thought I'd release it here also. I hope people find it useful. Paul A guide to understanding 'Persistent Context' Prior to Node-RED v0.19.0, data could be stored in context as a global, flow or node. This was stored in memory and would be reset with a restart of Node-RED. As of v.0.19.0 you can now store node, flow and global context data in memory O…

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