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Second Brain: Alfred keeps a research notebook for you

After your conversations with Ask Alfred, the durable learnings (directions, decisions, preferences, conclusions) are saved as notes you can browse, edit, and connect. Those notes inform future conversations, so Alfred remembers your work.

Every conversation with Ask Alfred produces things worth keeping: a direction you settled on, a method you ruled out, a preference you stated once and should not have to repeat. Second Brain, new under Writing, keeps that notebook for you.

How it works

  • Alfred takes the notes. After a conversation, the durable learnings (your research direction, decisions, preferences, conclusions) are quietly saved as notes, organized into folders for you.
  • The notes are yours. Browse them, edit them, rename, move, or delete them. Once you have edited a note, Alfred never overwrites it.
  • Notes connect. Link one note to another with [[wikilinks]], and each note shows what links back to it.
  • Everything is traceable. Every captured note links back to the conversations it came from, so you can always see where a learning began.
  • Alfred remembers. Your notes inform future Ask Alfred conversations, so Alfred recalls your prior work and preferences instead of starting from zero.

Auto-capture is on by default, and you can pause it anytime from the Second Brain page.