Build one with Cowork (no code)

You can build a working knowledge system without writing a line of code. Everything here is folders and plain text, and Cowork does the filing.

1. Make the home folder

Create one folder and give it a name you will recognize, like brain. This is where everything lives. Point Cowork at it the way you learned in the Cowork track.

2. Write a context file

Inside it, make a plain text or markdown file called about-me. In normal sentences, write who you are, what you are working on right now, and how you like things done. This is the file the agent reads first to understand your world. Keep it honest and short. You will update it as life changes.

3. Add a little structure

Make a few subfolders so things have a place to land:

• notes for things you capture day to day
• decisions for choices you have made and why
• projects for the things you are actively working on

Do not overthink it. Three folders is plenty to start.

4. Build the capture habit

This is the engine. When something happens, tell Cowork instead of filing by hand:

Save a note that I decided to switch dentists because the old one stopped taking my insurance. File it under decisions.

Cowork writes the file and puts it in the right folder. You talked; it organized.

5. Ask across everything

Now the payoff. Because it is all readable text in one place, you can ask questions that span it:

What did I decide about the apartment, and what is still open?

Cowork reads your folder and answers from your own history. Keep one idea per file, keep adding, and within a few weeks you have a second brain that knows your life. The weekly habit page makes that stick.