Conversations Into Memory
I’m building something simple: turn conversations into structured understanding aligned with what I actually care about.
Audio becomes text. Text becomes meaning. Meaning gets checked against my model of me. The output is memory I trust and moves I can take.
Why This Matters
Conversations evaporate. You finish a call or a coaching session and the insights are already fading. You remember the feeling but not the facts. Maybe you took notes, but notes force you to choose what matters before you know what it means.
A transcript isn’t enough. It preserves what was said, not what it means for you. When your coach says “you keep avoiding that conversation,” that’s not just information. For you it might connect to a pattern you’ve been working on, a commitment you made last month, or a value you’re trying to honor. None of that is in the transcript.
The Basic Idea
Audio captures what happened. No filtering, just the raw signal.
Transcript turns it into text with timestamps and speakers.
Interpretation maps it onto your definitions. What counts as an insight versus a passing thought? What counts as a commitment? The output is structured claims with confidence scores, not summaries.
Reconciliation checks new claims against what’s already in your world. Your active goals, patterns you’re tracking, principles you care about. Connections surface.
Advice suggests what to do next. Options with trade-offs, not commands.
The key is two ledgers. One for what was said (the literal record). One for what it means for you (the interpretation). Always linked so you can trace back to evidence.
The Personal Part
This only works if the system knows something about you. Not everything, just structure:
What roles matter to you. What you’re working on. What you don’t negotiate on. How you define words like “commitment” or “insight” or “pattern.”
Why It’s Useful
Over time, sessions accumulate. Patterns that span months become visible. You can ask “what keeps coming up about my leadership?” and get real answers with citations.
It works for coaching sessions, deep conversations with friends, therapy, creative brainstorms. Anywhere meaning emerges from dialogue and you want to keep it without drowning in transcripts.
Keeping It Clean
Others know if they’re recorded. Audio expires after transcription unless I keep it. Personal stuff stays private. Certain topics trigger automatic redaction.
This isn’t about surveillance. It’s about not losing what matters.
The Experiment
I’m testing whether conversation can become trusted memory. Whether I can talk through something once and have the system help me integrate it into how I think and act.
Not magic. Just structure that catches what I’d otherwise lose and hands it back in a form I can use.
That’s the experiment. Still figuring it out, but the shape feels right.