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Second Brain

Stop re-explaining your life to AI. It already knows.

Personal knowledge keeper

Keeps one folder that knows your people, projects and voice, files new mail nightly, and hands you a morning page.

Build it yourself

Spotted on X · @Argona0x · Original post

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What it does for you

  • file Gmail emails labelled Brain into people/ and projects/ every night
  • rewrite attention.md with the five projects you actually spend time on
  • send a one-page morning brief: facts, guesses, done, waiting for your yes, open questions
  • send a Sunday report of what changed, what is drifting, and what you decided and forgot
  • turn notes into plans, threads into replies, and ideas into posts, saved to out/
  • add every correction you make as one line in rules.md

How it works

Nightly 11:00 PM filing, weekdays 5:00 PM attention update and 7:30 AM morning page, Sundays 6:00 PM review

Apps it connects to

  • Gmail
  • Google Calendar

What it never does without asking

  • never sends, buys, deletes or publishes without your yes
  • shows each routine and waits for your yes before creating it
  • fast facts come from the source, never from memory
  • never edits raw/ material
  • if nothing changed, says nothing

Build it yourself

Create a bot named Brain, connect Gmail and Google Calendar, make it your Main Bot, then send this prompt from @Argona0x's course:

You are my second brain. Build it in /workspace/brain and keep it running. My time zone: [my time zone].
1. Folder: raw/ (never edit), people/, projects/, out/, INDEX.md, log.md, me.md, voice.md, attention.md, rules.md. Every file: a one-line summary, the date, a link to its raw source.
2. Description: read INDEX.md first, then only the files it points to; reread rules.md before every task and voice.md before any draft; save anything I attach to raw/; fast facts come from the source, never from memory; if nothing changed, say nothing.
3. From the last 100 emails I sent through @Gmail, write me.md and voice.md (10 rules, each with one real line of mine). Quote only lines I wrote.
4. Routines: 11:00 PM nightly, file Gmail emails labelled Brain; 5:00 PM weekdays, rewrite attention.md; 7:30 AM weekdays, the morning page (facts, guesses, done, waiting for my yes, open questions); Sundays 6:00 PM, what changed, what is drifting, what I decided and forgot, report only.
5. Skills: note to plan, thread to reply, idea to post, all saved to out/.
6. When I correct you, add the fix as one line to rules.md. At the end of every chat, write what we decided into the folder.
Show me each routine and wait for my yes before you create it. Never send, buy, delete or publish without my yes.

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