The weekly habit: capture, route, compound

A knowledge system is only as good as what you put in it. The good news is that feeding it takes one short session a week, built from three verbs.

Capture

Once a week, dump what happened. Notes, links, decisions, half-formed ideas. Do not polish, do not organize. Just get it out of your head and in front of the agent. Raw is fine. Raw is the point.

Route

Let the agent file each thing where it belongs. A decision goes to decisions, a useful article goes to notes, a new project gets its own place. You do not sort by hand. You say "file these," and it routes. This is the rule that keeps the habit from becoming a chore: your only job is to talk.

Compound

This is the verb that pays you back. Ask the agent to connect the new things to the old:

Look at what I added this week. Does any of it relate to projects or decisions already in here? Surface anything I should notice.

Storing was the easy part. Connecting is where it pays you back. Patterns show up. Old decisions get revisited. The whole thing gets smarter because nothing you filed is throwaway.

Once a week is enough

You do not need discipline, you need rhythm. A single weekly pass of capture, route, compound is enough to make the system compound instead of rot. Miss a week and nothing breaks; pick it back up and it keeps growing.

That is the entire practice. You now have a tool, a system, and a habit that feeds it. From here, the path leads up to the architecture that makes systems like this hold together over years.