Writing it all down, with help¶
Keeping a detailed record of what I do has always been on my mind, and I have never quite managed it. There are notebooks and spreadsheets, but they are not a complete record by any means, and there is a gap of several years in the data, lost to my own stupidity.
Old brewing and flavouring notebook: what went into each beer, and how it tasted along the way
Only in the last two or three years have I become disciplined about tracing each beer from brew day to bottle. Even now the photos are not linked to the data, and my study notes and culture notes are too inconsistent to be much use later.
The cellar tracker: what is in the cellar, traceable to brew day, and what I think of each beer
Research that never stayed put¶
When AI agents and skills became available on the cheaper subscription tiers, I started using them for research. I would dig into a topic, analyse the technical documentation, and once I had reached a sensible point, generate a document to consult later. That kind of worked, but the documents were never to hand when I actually needed them.
So, a website¶
Since AI is doing so much of the lifting, why not host it all online? I appreciate this is a very simple website, but I do not know how to make an even simpler one, and here it is. A rather powerful skill manages the site in full, with many operating modes (see Skills Architecture).