Your Life in Markdown. Organized by Claude Code.

Remember This transcribes your voice memos, captions your photos, and creates journal entries in your Obsidian vault—then launches Claude Code to organize and act on it for you.

Privacy-first • Local • Markdown • Powered by iCloud, Claude Code and Obsidian

_q/ → life-vault/
Input
🎙️ Voice memo
📸 New photos
📓 Journal
Queue
• high/
• medium/
• low/
Process
🤖 Claude
→ CLAUDE.md
→ Organize
Orient
← Past
⏺ Now
→ Future
🎙️

Voice Memos

Auto-transcribe voice memos with Whisper. Context for journal entries.

📸

Photo Album

Auto-caption photos with Ollama. Context for journal entries.

📓

Journal Entries

Daily/weekly/monthly/yearly rollups aggregating all life assets into auto-diary.

How It Works

Once your context lives in plain Markdown, your AI agents finally have something real to work with.

Capture → Organize → Act

📸

Capture

Photos, voice memos, and notes are added to your local vault automatically. Everything stays on your Mac.

🗂️

Organize

Remember This structures them into Markdown context automatically using your own AI setup (Claude Code or compatible agents).

Act

Your AI agents use that context to plan, draft, and execute tasks for you — privately, safely, on your terms.

Example: Reminder → Orientation Board

_q/high/001.md

🎙️ "Drew and Nancy are coming over for coffee this weekend"

↓ Claude Code
remember-this.md (Orientation Board)
## Future → 3d
- ☕ Drew & Nancy coffee (Saturday)
# Bring those pastries

Other inputs may go to /life-docs/, diary entries, or anywhere your CLAUDE.md specifies.

Your Vault, Your Rules

  • Define workflow in CLAUDE.md
  • All data stays local as Markdown
  • Works with Obsidian & any text editor
  • Sync via Obsidian Sync, Dropbox, iCloud
  • No cloud dependencies, no vendor lock-in

The Missing Context Layer

Why Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Feel So Limited

❌ They Can't See:

  • • What you did yesterday
  • • The photo you just took
  • • The voice memo you recorded this morning
  • • What you're working on or what matters to you

They're stateless question-answering systems. Every interaction starts from zero.

What If Your AI Could See:

  • ✓ The screenshot you took of that error message
  • ✓ The voice memo where you said "remind me to follow up with Sarah"
  • ✓ The photo of that receipt you need to file
  • ✓ Your time log showing what you've been working on all week

That's the context layer that's been missing. And that's what Remember This builds.

How Remember This Solves This

Not by chatting with it. By letting it watch your inputs and organize them automatically.

  1. 1 You take a photo or record a voice memo (things you already do)
  2. 2 The Mac app watches for new inputs and preprocesses them locally (transcription, metadata)
  3. 3 It writes queue items as Markdown in your Obsidian vault
  4. 4 Claude Code (via built-in queue processor) picks up the queue and processes it autonomously
  5. 5 Your inputs get transcribed, tagged, linked, and organized—without you asking

The result? A vault full of searchable, structured context that AI can actually use.

Key Capabilities

🎙️

Voice Memos

Mac app monitors your Voice Memos folder. New recordings are transcribed via Whisper and added to the queue automatically.

📸

Photo Album

Monitors your Photos library via PhotoKit. Auto-captions photos with Ollama. Indexed metadata available for AI processing and timeline views.

📓

Journal Entries

Daily/weekly/monthly/yearly rollup notes that aggregate all life assets into auto-diary. Optional time tracking integration for detailed timestamps.

🧭

Temporal Orientation

Your orientation board shows Past (3h/3d/3w), Now (current projects), and Future (3d/3w/3m reminders). All in one view.

🤖

CLAUDE.md Customization

Define your own workflow. Works with Claude Code or compatible AI agent systems. Tell your AI how to classify inputs, where to file them, and what summaries to generate.

🔐

Privacy First

Your vault stays local in Markdown files on your Mac. Local-first architecture with no telemetry. You control your sync method and API keys.

Built as a System of Composable Parts

Three independent components that work together seamlessly

📱

Mac App

Monitors voice memos and photos, writes queue items automatically.

  • • Voice memo monitoring
  • • Whisper transcription
  • • Photo enumeration
  • • Automatic queue creation

Queue Processor

Built-in queue watcher that spawns Claude Code sessions. Processes items based on priority (high: 10s, medium: 1min, low: 15min).

  • • Automatic session spawning
  • • Priority-based processing
  • • Optional: ccremote for Discord notifications
  • • Timeout detection
📝

Obsidian Plugin

View orientation board, photo context, and parsed time logs. Primary interface for your memory system.

  • • Temporal lens view (Past/Now/Future)
  • • Photo context integration
  • • Time tracking analytics
  • • Auto-refresh mechanism

Technology Stack

Core Infrastructure

  • Markdown as data format (vault-as-queue)
  • Claude Code for AI processing (built-in queue processor)
  • Background engine (watchers, processors, vault writes)
  • Local processing (Whisper transcription, photo metadata)

Data & Sync

  • Obsidian Sync (or Dropbox/iCloud)
  • Per-asset markdown (state machine via frontmatter)
  • PhotoKit for Photos library access
  • Git for vault versioning (optional)

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Remember This MVP.

🧠 Philosophy

Core values that guide Remember This

Local-first

Your data never leaves your machine.

Plain text

Everything stored as Markdown, human-readable forever.

Extensible

Works with Claude Code, GPTs, or any AI agent system.

Independent

No corporate backend, no telemetry, no subscription lock-in.

Built by an indie hacker with a crappy ADHD memory.
Designed for people who think in notes and photos and want their AI to stay personal.

🛠️ For Builders & Power Users

Built on open-source foundations

Remember This uses a built-in queue processor for Claude Code orchestration. The intake + queue architecture is reusable for any workflow. Advanced users can optionally use ccremote.dev for Discord notifications and remote monitoring.

Reusable architecture

Intake + queue pattern for any workflow

Customizable processing

Define your own CLAUDE.md instructions

Local-first, extensible

Markdown-based, works with any text editor

Ready to Organize Your Life Docs with AI?

Download Remember This for Mac and start building your private context layer.

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