claude-second-brain: A Second Brain That Outlives the Apps
I stopped picking the perfect notes app and built a convention instead - a folder of plain markdown any tool, including Claude, can read and write.
91 posts · Est. 2007
I stopped picking the perfect notes app and built a convention instead - a folder of plain markdown any tool, including Claude, can read and write.
I built mysmart.garden, an AI companion that knows my whole garden - daily briefings, weather alerts, rain auto-logging, and photo diagnosis from a chat.
I asked Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok for NCAA Tournament bracket predictions. Same prompt, same day, four different champions. Now we watch.
What started as an MCP server for Claude Code's memory turned into a suite of tools - because solving one problem always creates another.
A dream about my late mother running away from AI sparked some unexpected reflection on how much technology has changed - and what she might have thought about it all.
After 11 years of silence, the blog is back. Rebuilt from scratch with Next.js, and ready to dive into Home Assistant, AI, LLMs, and general tech tinkering.