Brain
A folder on my desktop with AI attached. It's where saved notes and ideas get organized and picked back up.
Brain is a folder on my desktop. It's a place to organize all the "do later" and "I want to learn about that" stuff, with AI attached. Saved posts, bookmarks, notes and home project ideas get filed there, so when I want to work on something, everything I've collected about it from different places is already together.
Claude works out of the folder, and each session reads what the last one left behind, so I don't start every conversation by re-explaining things. So far it's mostly been used for organization, and it keeps changing as I figure out what works.
It can also wake up a small home lab that's mostly used as a sandbox right now. Thanks to old work computers! (That I promise I was allowed to have.)
Which model does what
I use a few different models in this folder. Right now, Anthropic's Opus is sort of the orchestrator, and OpenAI's Astra is the second opinion. Simpler jobs go to cheaper models, and some can run on my own PC instead, on models like Qwen and NVIDIA's Nemotron. Those get tested before I trust them with anything. The one built for coding failed the coding test.
I had ChatGPT review the whole setup. Its main warning was that maintaining Brain could turn into the actual project. Fair.
Distill
A small tool that came out of it. Talk for a few minutes and get back a cheat sheet. It's useful before a big call, or for turning a ramble into something readable. It runs entirely on my PC: one model listens, another summarizes.
Here it is on a made-up voice note about a golf lesson:
