This is an idea note on extending LLM memory through local retrieval. It captures a system I’ve been using, not a finished product. I’m not a developer, so I’m just trying to describe the system I’ve been hacking together at a level where others can build on it, improve it, extend it, or adapt it.
I kept running into the same problem: I knew I’d already done the work somewhere, but I couldn’t reliably get back to it.
Not because it was gone. Not because I’d failed to think it through. The problem was that my past work was spread across too many places and too many formats to be consistently useful when I needed it. Some of it was in old LLM chats. Some of it was in notes apps. Some of it lived in PDFs, screenshots, exports from tools I no longer use, half-finished drafts, or folders I hadn’t opened in months. The material existed. The retrieval didn’t.