Notes from building a mind you own.
How to move and keep your AI history, why the model is rented while the memory is yours, and practical guides for the second brain that's actually yours. Written in public as we build.
One line, one Mac: what the chanio starter actually does, step by step.
Before you paste a curl line into Terminal you should know exactly what it is allowed to do. Every step of the installer and every command of the starter, read against the code — including what a 3B model cannot do.
Read →Backfill your first morning brief: turn a decade of ChatGPT into a dense day one.
An empty vault gives you a thin brief. Export your ChatGPT or Claude history, rescue it into files you own, and let the first overnight run read years of your own thinking before it writes a word.
What to look for in a “second brain” — and why most rent you back your own mind.
Six questions to ask any tool that offers to remember for you: can you open the files without it, take them to another model, see what each answer cost, and keep everything if the company disappears.
NotebookLM reads only your sources. Google reads them too.
Google's NotebookLM turns your documents into a cited, queryable knowledge base — and it's genuinely excellent. It's also Google, holding your sources. “Grounded only in your sources” is a fact about the model, not about who read them.
Apple made it free. Kimi made it cheap. Neither one knows who you are.
In one month, on-device intelligence went free and frontier intelligence went open and cheap — from opposite ends of the market. Both moves crush the middle. What's left standing is the only thing neither tier can supply.
Moving your whole AI history to a new model — and actually owning it
People are hand-migrating a decade of ChatGPT into Claude with 100MB export files. Here's how to move it in minutes — and keep it as files you own, so you never do it by hand again.
Siri now remembers your apps. It still can't see your thinking.
iOS 27 gives the OS assistant an on-device memory — of your messages, mail, and photos. The hours you spend thinking with Claude and ChatGPT are the one thing it can't index. That gap is the whole point.
Bringing your AI history home?
Drop a ChatGPT or Claude export and watch it become a wikilinked vault you own — parsed entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.