I have always struggled with logging and cataloguing my life, the things I do, the people I connect with, the reasons that I connected with them, the projects that I start, the ideas that are there, everything. I have tried MANY times and there is a graveyard of attempts. Some of the attempts were:

• Multiple Google Drives with many started documents that have not gone anywhere
• Multiple Google Keeps with things and notes that have gone nowhere
• WhatsApp DMs to myself, which were lost during migration or still sit unused in my whatsapp
• A bunch of Notion docs and paper docs and a few other attempts that are just lying around and they never got catalogued

The pattern is simple, repeated and observable. The logging got started due to a trigger, life happened and then they got dropped.

Further, there were things like tracking things like:

• my wellness
• my sleep
• my food
• my meals

And the people parts of it:

• who are the people
• what are the promises made
• what are the birthdays
• all of these things

On top of all of it abstractions like ideas, epiphanies, emotions, etc. are lost more often than not. I just want to frictionlessly store it, like just put it in a journal. And things that are in the journal, like I had a great day with friends where we did a lot of running and playing should update the other more objective databases like food, the sports and the catching up with friends. Logging in a journal AND cataloguing all these tiny aspects is almost impossible as of now. Fetching any detail a few months later is literally impossible.

I've tried many times and failed many times. With the ease of database management within Notion, the abilities of Claude and simple tooling like Telegram, I felt like it can be done. So… I gave it a shot.

What did I build so far? The loop end to end.

So far, I've built a very straightforward personal assistant system which does only two jobs: cataloging and querying.