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Second Brain

The notes are not the problem. Forgetting they exist is.

Started October 2026
Runtime
Claude CodePython 3BashSwift (OCR helper)
Capture
Telegram Bot APIHourly cron collectionOCR (Vision via Swift)
Content
MarkdownYAML front matterObsidian (optional)
Mechanics
Slash commandsSubagentsHooksScheduled nudges

This started as my own setup back in June and I have been running my days on it ever since, so none of it is new. What changed in October is that the pieces stopped being a pile of scripts and conventions and became one system. It is still the thing I use every day, which is the only reason it exists in this shape: every rule in it is there because something went wrong more than once, and I decided it was a pattern I had to fix. It has grown into something closer to a product than a dotfiles folder, and I would like to share it, particularly with executives and with ADHD professionals, and not only in tech. It is the first system that has actually helped me keep hold of my own ideas. It is live in the sense that it runs my days. It is not productised yet, and the next step is the product page.

Nothing disappears quietly

It is not that you never wrote it down. It is that you forget it exists. The thing you said you would do, the thing you asked someone else for and never chased, the decision you are sitting on without noticing you are sitting on it. Every other tool stops at capture. This is the part that brings them back.

The archivist, who connects the dots

The theme you keep circling without having named it. The link between two notes written a year apart. The loose ideas that have quietly become one thing.

The secretary, your right hand

What you agreed to, what somebody else owes you, who it involves and what it touches. None of it depends on you remembering the conversation.

The curator, who keeps your ideas in place

A link at midnight. Half a thought on a walk. Inspiration in the middle of a train journey. The curator makes sure all of it finds the right place, and comes back when you need it, instead of being lost in a note somewhere.

The teacher, for the things you do not understand

It explains how the thing in front of you works, why it was built that way, and what breaks if you change it. AI widens what you can build and narrows what you understand.

A letterbox on your phone

Nothing depends only on your laptop. Message it a link, a photo, a thought on the way somewhere, and carry on using Second Brain from your phone.

An onboarding wizard

It asks where your notes live, who you are, what you are working on and what it must never touch. Half an hour of answering questions, no shell commands, and it comes out shaped to how you work.

Yours, in a folder

Plain markdown on your own machine. No account, no sync, no cloud. Your notes are never shared with anyone or uploaded anywhere, and they stay readable in anything, long after you are done with this.