I built a chatbot into my https://thecompendium.cards.
- I built a chatbot into my https://thecompendium.cards.
- I use the Compendium as part of my information management workflow.
- I have over 20,000 private working notes cards in it, with hundreds added every week.
- I also re-import the Bits and Bobs into it every week.
- In the past I've found being able to pass the Bits and Bobs to Claude as background context made it a much more powerful brainstorming partner.
- But recently the amount of Bits and Bobs–even just focusing on the ones related to my job–was far too much to fit in the context window.
- So I added a feature to the Compendium allowing me to chat with any collection of cards.
- This feature is only enabled for me, so other viewers won't see it.
- If there are too many cards to fit into context, it sorts them based on each card's embedding's similarity to the first user message in the chat.
- This naturally focuses on the more relevant cards.
- I pointed at my Bits and Bobs and asked it to write a manifesto for Convivial Computing.[sg]
- I think it did a pretty good job!