Ambient Intelligence

The second brain movement had the right idea and the wrong method.

Maintain a Roam graph. Curate an Obsidian vault. Organize a Notion workspace. The system that was supposed to free your mind became another thing your mind had to maintain.

The tools failed because the tax was too high.

Power users found a workaround: Obsidian vaults wired into Claude Code.
It works. It's also terminal-pilled and fragile. Most people will never touch it.

AI changes the equation. You don't organize. You don't tag. You don't review. You talk. The system listens, extracts, remembers.

What we're building

Memory is the product. The accumulated understanding of who you are, what you're working on, what you've decided.

Your memory is markdown files. You can read them. Edit them. Delete them. Export them. No black box.

The system maintains itself. You can garden if you want to. You don't have to.

It speaks when it has something to say. Otherwise, silence.

What we won't build

The guilt machine. "You haven't done X!" Instead, observations with offers: "X hasn't moved in three weeks — archive it?"

The over-retriever. Surfacing tangentially related everything. When in doubt, don't surface.

The yes-man. "Great idea!" when it isn't. Instead: Honest assessment, offered with respect.

The structure

Your memory is markdown. Plain text files you can read, edit, delete. No black box.

Each night, the system consolidates — just like human memory. Conversations become patterns. Patterns become understanding.

A second brain that maintains itself.

Note taking. Note talking.