The problem with normal notes
Your notes are in one app. Your AI is in another. When your assistant cannot reach your current notes, you can end up pasting the same background, re-explaining preferences, and copying context out of an old chat.
The fix is not a better note app. It is notes your assistant can actually reach.
How it works
Save your notes in Hjarni, then connect it to ChatGPT or Claude with the built-in MCP server. Ask your connected assistant to search, read, or update the notes you need. It retrieves saved context through Hjarni's tools; connecting does not automatically load your notes into every conversation.
Simple on purpose
Hjarni keeps the shape small: notes, folders, tags. That is enough structure for you to organize notes and for connected ChatGPT and Claude to read, search, and update them.
What is left out matters. No databases, no kanban boards, no page builders. Those are useful in other products. They make a knowledge base heavier than it needs to be.
Your notes stay plain Markdown you own and can export. The point is not to model everything. The point is to keep durable context in a form both people and AI can understand.
Where you write it is up to you: any browser, or the free apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac and Android. Same account, same notes. Your connected assistant can retrieve notes you created in any of these apps.
Built-in AI memory is not enough
Built-in memory is useful for small preferences. A knowledge base is for context you want to keep, inspect, edit, and share across ChatGPT and Claude.
Use both. Let built-in memory keep light preferences. Put the notes worth keeping in Hjarni. See Hjarni vs ChatGPT Memory for the longer comparison.
What you keep in your notes
Keep the context you would otherwise repeat. The small facts. The current plans. The decisions that explain why things are the way they are.
Preferences
How you like answers written, what you avoid, what matters when options are close.
Trip details
Dates, bookings, places to revisit, dietary notes, and the kind of pace you prefer.
People
Who someone is, what you last discussed, and details you want to remember next time.
Ongoing projects
Goals, open questions, constraints, next steps, and useful background.
Decisions
What you chose, why you chose it, and what would make you revisit it.
Reference notes
Ideas, quotes, checklists, plans, and anything ChatGPT and Claude should be able to find later.
Start with one note
You do not have to import anything or set up folders first. Connect Hjarni, then tell your assistant one thing worth remembering. Paste this into ChatGPT or Claude once you are connected:
That first note is the whole idea in miniature. Ask your assistant to save it, then start a new conversation and ask it to search Hjarni and read the note back. From there you add notes, folders, and tags as you go. It is plain Markdown you own and can export anytime.