Second Brain Chronicles

Second Brain Chronicles

A Brain That Remembers
Building Cerebro · Chapter 5 — how to find a note when you've forgotten the words you wrote, and how to give your AI a memory that survives the reset…
 • Jim Christian
How I put my most-used Claude commands on a Stream Deck without buying a profile
I was about to pay for someone else's layout. Then I asked Claude what I actually use.
 • Jim Christian
Giving Me New Senses
Building Cerebro · Chapter 4 — how to give your AI direct control of a service it can't currently reach, and how to get one built when the connector you…
 • Jim Christian
How 3 Weeks of Notes Built Second Brain Skills
I asked Claude to find patterns and it helped build skills I didn't know I needed.
 • Jim Christian
Building an Eclipse (and Hellmouth) Tracker
The best way to learn any new technology is by trying to do something weird with it.
 • Jim Christian
Importing 25 Years of His Life
Building Cerebro · Chapter 3 — how to get decades of journals out of an app that owns them and into plain text you can search, including the shortcut…
 • Jim Christian
The Week My Builds Started Compounding
How to stop starting from zero: the question to ask before you build anything, and why your first attempt always costs a day.
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Two People, Two AI Assistants, One Repo
How to run a shared project through two AI assistants: the file, the five sections, and the one line at the top that makes it work.
 • Jim Christian
The One File That Teaches It Everything
A single text file, read before every session, that turns a generic assistant into one that knows your setup. Mine also went quietly wrong for two…
 • Jim Christian
Your Vault Has a Shape
Five folders and a note for today — the difference between a system you keep and a pile you abandon in a month.
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Starting From Scratch
Two pieces of software, one command, and a folder on your own disk. This is the actual beginning, and it takes about twenty minutes.
 • Jim Christian
My favourite MCPs: macos-automator
Some software you just can't reach. Well, macos-automator gets it.
 • Jim Christian
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