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My Mind
You use AI every day. A year of it should add up to something, and right now it doesn't. Every new chat starts from zero.
Second Brain is a memory layer that runs in your own Cloudflare account. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf and any other MCP client read and write the same store, so what you work out in one tool is there in the next one.
Getting things in
Getting things back
Recall is semantic, not keyword. Memories link to each other, so a multi-hop search surfaces the reasoning behind a decision, not just the decision.
Entries carry a status (canonical, draft, deprecated) so an agent knows which version of a fact to trust.
Contradictions get flagged for a human to settle instead of quietly overwritten.
Where it lives
Your Cloudflare account: Workers, D1 and Vectorize.
Typical personal use sits inside Cloudflare's free tier. Open source on GitHub. No account with us, and nothing routes through our infrastructure.
Setup
Signed desktop app for Mac and Windows, one-click Cloudflare deploy, or clone the repo and run wrangler.
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Most AI memory tools store your context on their servers. This one deploys into your own Cloudflare account, so the memory is yours in a literal sense: your database, your vectors, your billing. We can't read it because we never have it.
The other difference is recall:
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It works everywhere you work. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, any MCP client. Most memory tools only remember what happened inside their own app, so you end up with three AI tools holding three different versions of you.
You own the deployment. One-click deploy to Cloudflare, or a signed desktop installer if you'd rather not touch a terminal. Typical personal use sits inside Cloudflare's free tier, so there's no subscription to cancel and no vendor to migrate off later.
It's open source. MIT licensed. Read the code, fork it, extend it. Nothing about how your memory is stored or retrieved is a black box.
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People who already live in these tools. They have an Obsidian vault or a Notion workspace, they're in Claude or ChatGPT every day, and some of them are in Cursor too. They're not casual users and they're not necessarily developers. They've built a system, and they've noticed the system doesn't talk to itself.
The shared frustration isn't "AI forgets." It's that a year of real thinking, hours of working through actual problems, hasn't left anything behind. Every conversation is good and then it's gone, and a month later they're figuring out the same thing from scratch.
They also tend to care where their work sits. Not privacy absolutists, just people who'd rather their own thinking accumulate in an account they control than in someone else's product they might have to leave.
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I was using Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor every day and re-explaining the same projects to each of them. A year of that adds up to nothing. The decisions I'd worked out in one tool simply didn't exist in the next one.
I built it for myself first, on Cloudflare because I already had an account and the free tier meant I could run it without thinking about cost. Then I open sourced it, and what people asked for shaped what it became. The desktop app exists because a user on Product Hunt asked for a path that didn't involve a terminal, and she was right to ask.
I still use it every day. Most of the roadmap comes from hitting the limits of my own memory layer.
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I imported my kindle highlights, as many others. Now I daily review some highlights (thanks to a dashboard, I am motivated). And where I didn't create highlights, as I only listened to the audiobooks, I get the highlights from others. It also allows to create beautiful quotes. It adds the book cover and matches quote and background with colours found on the book title! Really nice!
Based on our record, Readwise seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 88 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Anyway, as I reached the end of the chapter, I wanted to read my Readwise's daily recap. However, my iPhone was in other room. I didnโt want to get up; I was tired. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago
The only highlights that Readwise retrieves semi-automatically are from the books I buy from Kindle, by going into the Readwise app and clicking a button. If I upload them to Kindle or need highlights from the Apple Books app, I have to open the book, go to my highlights, select them all, and then email them to a Readwise email address. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
Readwise also has this feature. I get a daily email with a random assortment of highlights that have been pulled in from multiple sources (Reader, Notion, Kindle, etc.) The product benefit in their case is that it's kind of like Zapier, but for notes. https://readwise.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Go to readwise.io and create an account if you don't already have one. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
Sign up for a Readwise account if you haven't already readwise.io. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
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Instapaper - Instapaper is a simple tool to save web pages for reading later.
OpenMemory MCP - Your private, local memory layer for all AI tools
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