Everyone has the same AI. What makes yours different is what it knows about you.

The idea

As the models get more powerful and everyone gets access to the same ones, what is left that is yours is the context you can give them. The game becomes building the system that lets any AI reach it in the most effective way possible.

The build feels backwards. Everything has spent a decade moving into the cloud, and this asks you to make files and folders on your own computer. That is precisely the point: plain files are the one format every AI can read, so your context walks from tool to tool untouched.

The working heart of it is an inbox folder you dump everything into: a report you found, a meeting transcript, a page you saved. A scheduled task sweeps it every afternoon and files what it finds under rules you approved, flagging anything it is unsure about.

Dump it in. It gets filed. Sorting is the system's job, not yours. Every afternoon a scheduled task reads the map, files what it is sure about, and asks about the rest rather than guessing.

Rented memory, or files you own. A tool's memory knows you inside that tool. Plain files on your own computer still work with whatever you are using next year.

How it works

1. 000-START-HERE.mdOne file that gives the AI the map: what lives in each folder, what belongs where, and the filing rules. Written for the AI to read first, every time.
2. 1-inboxThe dump zone. Anything you come across goes here without ceremony: sorting is the system's job, not yours.
3. portfolioWho you are: an about-me, how you communicate, your goals, your current projects. This is the personal context portfolio, and three files is enough to start.
4. projects · knowledge · archiveWork that is live, reference that endures, and everything whose time has passed. Numbered folders keep the hierarchy honest.
5. The afternoon sweepA scheduled task: every afternoon, inspect the inbox, use START-HERE to decide destinations, move files under the approved rules, flag uncertainty.
6. The weekly auditOnce a week, have it audit the whole brain: anything out of place, anything stale? Wrong context is worse than no context; this habit is what keeps it right.

The files

These are the files worth making first. Start with three; the rest can wait until you miss them.

• 000-START-HERE.md: the map of the system, written for the AI, with what is in each folder and the filing rules
• about-me.md: who you are, your role, your organisation
• communication.md: your voice, your style, and how you want things explained to you
• goals-and-priorities.md: what you are actually trying to achieve
• current-projects.md: what is live right now, kept current
• preferences, frameworks, knowledge: grow it from here, one file at a time

Using the memory and chat history available to you, draft my personal context files: who I am, my role, how I communicate, my goals, and my current projects. Write them one file at a time, in plain markdown. Do not invent anything: where you are not sure, ask me instead.

The sentences to type

Both assume 000-START-HERE.md exists and holds your filing rules. That file is what makes them safe to schedule.

Inspect the 1-inbox folder. Read 000-START-HERE.md first and use its filing rules to decide where each item belongs. Move only what you are confident about, rename files to match the convention, and leave anything you are unsure about where it is with a one line note saying why. Then tell me what you moved and what you left.

Audit the whole system against 000-START-HERE.md. Tell me what is filed in the wrong place, what is duplicated, what has gone stale enough to be misleading now, and which folder has grown enough to need splitting. Do not move anything yet: give me the list and your reasoning first.