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:
jd 21.15 // or search by title
claude
- 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