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.