Personal 2nd Brain
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About
My personal life and learning OS - local-first, and where I think, track and create from.
What It Does
- Knowledge: book and film libraries with Goodreads and Kindle import, a proxy article reader with a reading list, a multi-board knowledge graph, a personal wiki, and an Excalidraw whiteboard for sketching systems.
- Study Partner (AI): context-aware Claude chat with full library awareness, wired to the Claude Agent SDK.
- Life: calisthenics and health tracking with progress photos and Chart.js stats, a dream diary with Gemini image generation, a family graph, a travel map with pins and photos, a calendar, and an end-of-day review.
- Creative: live-coded music with Strudel and visuals with Hydra in a browser editor, plus a dance-video collection by style.
- Content and socials: a blog editor that writes straight to markdown, a post library, a Buffer publishing panel, a creators feed, and cross-platform posting and growth stats.
- Ventures and tasks: a ventures tracker and a local-first task board with pipelines and dependencies, moved off ClickUp.
- Dashboard: stats and charts across every module, full JSON backup, and per-module import/export.
Today I shipped: a stats addition to my 2nd brain app!
— Tikita Tolley (@TikitaTech) May 3, 2026
I've aggregated stats across social platforms so I can see my posting progress and can now post straight from the app pic.twitter.com/YBAWQ144hP
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