𝗠𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿
Most notes are where ideas die. You have Notion pages you never open. You have untitled entries. You have forgotten screenshots. I had all of these.
I built a second brain. It is a folder of plain markdown files. An AI reads and writes to these files. No fancy apps. No subscriptions.
I hated re-explaining my life to chatbots. I stopped pasting my bio every time. One folder holds everything. Work, projects, and goals. The AI reads the whole folder. It knows my role at Remotestat. It knows my work at Kiks Studios. It has the context.
Most note vaults are read-only. Mine is different. I talk to the AI. The AI writes back into the files. It asks me questions. It edits the markdown. I do not format notes by hand.
Information flows in a loop. Conversation leads to sorting. Sorting leads to context.
I follow a simple flow. Capture, sort, distill, and use.
- Inbox: raw notes land here.
- Projects: tasks with a finish line.
- Areas: ongoing roles.
- Resources: reference files.
- Archive: finished work.
One file sits in the middle. It is my master profile. Every note links back to it. The AI follows these links. It finds the client and the related notes.
I wrote a few commands for the AI.
- Check-in: updates my files.
- Think: finds contradictions.
- Morning: gives my daily focus.
- Plan: reviews the week.
- Spark: creates post ideas.
AI writing sounds fake. It uses long lists and weird words. I use a humanizer tool. It makes the output sound like me.
I use a MacBook Air and Mac Mini. The vault sits in iCloud drive. Everything stays in sync.
Notes are not the value. The value is one true, linked place. A model reads it and writes to it. A markdown folder costs nothing. Links and loops turn it into a coworker.
Your notes know you. Now they talk back.
Source: https://dev.to/sxivansx/i-turned-a-folder-of-markdown-into-a-coworker-that-actually-knows-me-1kfe Optional learning community: https://t.me/GyaanSetuAi