basic memory

Playbooks.

How people use Basic Memory to solve real problems.

Basic Memory is for everyone. Researchers, writers, builders, teams, the person trying to remember what they read last month. Pick the job you're trying to do. Each playbook is a problem, a workflow, and the outcome.

playbooks/coding-memory.md
type: playbook
audience: developers

Persistent memory for coding

## Observations
  • - [problem] Your AI forgets between sessions
  • - [workflow] Agent reads context first
  • - [workflow] Capture decisions as notes
  • - [outcome] Your agent stops re-asking
## Relations
“It has taken the nightmare of “AI amnesia” completely out of the highly technical chemistry work I do every day.”
— Paul Cucinello · Co-Founder / Lead Formulator, Cucinello Beauty
## the playbooks
playbooks/coding-memory.md
type: playbook
audience: developers

Persistent memory for coding

## Observations
  • - [problem] Your AI forgets between sessions
  • - [workflow] Agent reads context first
  • - [workflow] Capture decisions as notes
  • - [outcome] Your agent stops re-asking
## Relations
  • - read [[The full playbook]]
playbooks/team-context.md
type: playbook
audience: teams

Shared context for your team

## Observations
  • - [problem] Team context is scattered
  • - [workflow] Sessions become tagged notes
  • - [workflow] Plans link back to strategy
  • - [outcome] New people read it on day one
## Relations
  • - read [[The full playbook]]
playbooks/agent-memory.md
type: playbook
audience: agent builders

Long-term memory for your agents

## Observations
  • - [problem] No real long-term memory
  • - [workflow] Connect any MCP client
  • - [workflow] Agent searches before answering
  • - [outcome] Memory that survives a vendor switch
## Relations
  • - read [[The full playbook]]
playbooks/msp-workspace.md
type: playbook
audience: MSPs & agencies

Per-client memory your AI runs

## Observations
  • - [problem] The 'why' behind tickets disappears
  • - [workflow] Schemas for durable context
  • - [workflow] Claude writes records per ticket
  • - [outcome] Context that pays forward
## Relations
  • - read [[The full playbook]]
playbooks/research.md
type: playbook
audience: researchers

A research base that compounds

## Observations
  • - [problem] Research scatters and disappears
  • - [workflow] One note per source
  • - [workflow] Synthesis notes link sources
  • - [outcome] Findings compound, not scatter
## Relations
  • - read [[The full playbook]]
playbooks/deep-research.md
type: playbook
audience: researchers & analysts

Deep research that holds together

## Observations
  • - [problem] More context than a chat holds
  • - [workflow] Schemas for the entities
  • - [workflow] Process chapters in batches
  • - [outcome] A queryable model of the work
## Relations
  • - read [[The full playbook]]
playbooks/second-brain.md
type: playbook
audience: knowledge workers

Build your second brain

## Observations
  • - [problem] AI alone can't hold your context
  • - [workflow] Brain-dump into daily notes
  • - [workflow] Reflect on a schedule
  • - [outcome] A second brain that compounds
## Relations
  • - read [[The full playbook]]