I recently experimented with breaking my life into segments (like the reporting segments of a company) and organizing Dropbox, text journals, and Claude chats in accordance with those segments. What you are describing is far more advanced and I'm intrigued. Checking out the site now.
Every part of my life and business has a well-defined ID. This ID has:
- A defining entry in my index [1], which is an Obsidian vault.
- Therefore, also a Markdown note(s).
- A folder on disk.
I have a CLI [2] and agent skills [3] that help your LLM understand these relationships.
Then you just:
and now Claude has access to:- All of your notes from your index. This is your shared memory: it's designed to be human-readable.
- All of its memory and transcripts from the fact that you launch it in the same folder whenever you do this piece of work. This is its internal memory.
- With this comes the ability to easily `--resume` past conversations and so on.
That's … it. Carefully-named Markdown files and folders. My numbers aren't a prerequisite – there's nothing magical about them – but they sure help.
You can do this all for free. It takes about half an hour to set up. My MCP server [4] adds some quality-of-life but is paid (and means I can buy lunch :).
> I’m exploring whether to build something
I really wouldn't. I get 10 emails a week from people who already are and I don't see the point. It's a solved problem.
[0]: https://johnnydecimal.com/
[1]: https://johnnydecimal.com/documentation/the-jdex
[2]: https://johnnydecimal.com/documentation/jd-cli
[3]: https://johnnydecimal.com/documentation/agent-skills
[4]: https://johnnydecimal.com/software/mcp-server