Mind add-on · Drops into your root system
A place to write what struck you, what you are chewing on, what surprised you. In words or in images. Your system catches the thought, and over weeks it reads back what you keep returning to: the questions you circle, the ideas that keep coming back, the patterns you would never see in a single day. The memory is the point. A fresh chat forgets you. Your system remembers.
Download the Learning JournalA small add-on. Installs in about 5 minutes onto any existing root system.
See exactly what you are installing before you download. Four files, no accounts, no servers.
# mind/learning-journal/
SETUP-GUIDE.md # how to add it (5 min, nothing overwritten)
learning-journal.md # the practice: catch, tag, log, read back
mind-lenses.md # the breadth of Mind + ways into an entry
journal-log.md # your entries + the threads you keep returning to
Any time something strikes you, say so. The raw thought is the thing that disappears, so it comes first.
Tell it unpolished: what struck you, what you are chewing on, what surprised you. Easier to show than to say? Drop in an image. Claude can read it.
The state your thinking is in: clear, scattered, trapped, or turbulent. And a title for the entry. The state tag is what makes patterns visible later.
The thought is appended to your log. Even with no analysis, it is now saved and searchable for the read-back.
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That is one section of one file. The rest carries the doorways into the breadth of Mind, the read-back, and the full setup guide.
Not one tidy summary. The memory that builds underneath it.
You tell it, it logs it in seconds. The one habit that matters is yours: catch the thought while it is live, even three messy lines.
Across weeks it surfaces the questions you circle and the ideas that keep coming back, the patterns a single day cannot show you.
A belief, a worry, a question you keep chewing on: logged as a thread, read back next time a thought lands near it. Your map, not a generic one.
A thought does not have to arrive as a paragraph. Use whichever gets it out of your head fastest.
The raw thought, however messy. What struck you, what you are turning over, what you cannot quite word yet.
A photo of a whiteboard or a page, a diagram you sketched, a screenshot of the line that stopped you, the meme that nailed it. Claude reads what is in the image and hands it back to you weeks later.
A quote and your reaction to it. A voice memo you talked out on a walk, transcribed. Or ask Claude to draw an idea you cannot word yet, so a felt thing has something to point at.
It adds to your system. It does not replace anything. One folder, one line.
Open the terminal, cd into your root system folder, and start Claude. Same way you start any session.
Drag the downloaded zip straight into the terminal and ask Claude to add it to your system. It reads the setup guide inside, places the folder in mind/, and adds one pointer line to your root file. It finds what already exists and never overwrites your work.
Next time something strikes you, say "I want to journal this." It catches, tags, and logs. From there it builds.
# prefer to wire it by hand? unzip into mind/ and add
# this one line to your root CLAUDE.md, under Mind
- Learning journal: when I want to journal a thought
or say "log this thought," read
mind/learning-journal/learning-journal.md and run it.
You stay the one thinking. The system holds the thread.
It holds the thought underneath the day, not a score for it. Think on paper, and let the system keep the thread of what you are working out.
If an entry turns heavy, it says so gently and points you to a person who can help. More thinking is not the way through that, and it will not pretend otherwise.
Four markdown files and a pointer. No subscription, no second app. Your entries and your threads never leave your system.
Catch the next thought that strikes you. In a month, you will have a map of what your mind keeps returning to, in your own words and your own images.
Download the Learning JournalA Mind add-on for your root system. Or come build with us live.