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Open any note in your vault and read it the way a stranger would. It’s full of references. A meeting note mentions a project. A recipe mentions the dinner party you cooked it for. A tax note mentions your accountant, who has a page of her own three folders away. The connections are already written…
Somewhere in your vault there’s a note that quietly runs everything: the routing note. It’s the page your AI assistants read to learn where things go — receipts here, lab results there, meeting notes under this project. Every time you snap a photo or say “save this,” that note is the reason the file lands…
If you keep an Obsidian vault, you have already done the hard part of building a personal knowledge base. You’ve decided what’s worth writing down. You’ve built a folder structure that mostly survives contact with reality. You’ve accumulated some number of meeting notes and journal entries and project briefs and references that, taken together, are…
A year ago I switched from ChatGPT to Claude. I’d taught ChatGPT my preferences for a year — pull-request style, the right tone for emails to my accountant, what “the vendor” means in our shared context. None of it moved. I started over. Last month I did it again, on purpose, as a test. I…
You’ve pasted the same twelve-page master services agreement into three different chats this month. Once for the indemnification clause. Once for a question about IP assignment. Once because you forgot what the renewal terms said. Each time, the same upload, the same patient summary by the assistant, the same chat-window context burned on a document…
You probably think “AI memory” means the chat history sidebar. The list of titled threads you scroll back through when you’re trying to remember what you and Claude figured out three Tuesdays ago. That’s not memory. That’s a transcript that disappears when you change apps. Real, portable memory is a place. This post is about…