The Best Ways to Give Your AI Memory (2026)
Six ways to give Claude or ChatGPT a memory in 2026, compared honestly. A knowledge base over MCP, built-in memory, projects, CLAUDE.md files, and more.
Six ways to give Claude or ChatGPT a memory in 2026, compared honestly. A knowledge base over MCP, built-in memory, projects, CLAUDE.md files, and more.
OpenAI's 'Dreaming' upgrade makes ChatGPT remember more about you, automatically. Here is what it does well, and the job it still cannot do: be a knowledge base your AI can read.
Context engineering made code legible to coding agents. Your notes need the same thing. Capture is solved. Legibility is the bottleneck.
Running Karpathy's LLM wiki in an Obsidian vault versus a hosted knowledge base over MCP. What each one gives you, and an honest list of what you give up.
A chat log is a transcript, not a knowledge base. Generation got good. Retrieval is the part that is still broken. Here is why, and what fixes it.
A second brain is a place outside your head where you store everything worth keeping. Here's what it is, why it matters, and why AI changes what it needs to do.
Five small workflows that turn Hjarni into memory for Claude and ChatGPT. Customer context, meeting notes, decision logs, a style guide your AI follows, and inbox leads handled while you sleep.
A plain Markdown file works for the LLM wiki pattern. Until it doesn't. Here are the five points where it stops working, and what to use instead.
A second brain is an external system for what you read, think, and decide. The traditional version is a graveyard. Here's what replaces it in 2026.
I run Hjarni's entire growth program from inside Hjarni itself. Two AIs, three folders, and a built-in MCP server. Here's the real loop, step by step.
Andrej Karpathy's LLM wiki gist nails it. Stop dumping documents at LLMs. Build a brain. Hjarni hosts it over MCP, in Claude and ChatGPT, on every device.
Learn how startups avoid information loss by using Hjarni's shared knowledge base.
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