👋 Welcome! This is the actual system I use to run a multi-track content project with Claude — across sessions, and across model versions — without losing context or re-explaining myself every time.

I built this after realizing the real problem wasn't "the AI forgets things." It's that most people never built a system for what the AI should remember. This fixes that, and it works with any AI model — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, whatever comes next.

Made by Ethanusis · pickenough.com

🎯 The Core Idea

Two documents, not one:

1. Master Doc — current state only. What's done, what's next, what decisions were made and why (briefly). This is what you reattach every single session.

2. Archive Doc — everything else. Detailed reasoning, old logs, finished discussions. You almost never open this — it exists so the Master Doc doesn't get bloated.

The split matters because of one thing: AI context windows are limited, and models compress/summarize as conversations get long. Every time something gets summarized, small details can drift a little. If everything lives in one giant document, that drift compounds fast. Keeping the Master Doc lean is what keeps the drift low.

📋 How to Set It Up

1. Create two documents (Notion, Google Doc, plain Markdown file — doesn't matter): Master Doc and Archive Doc
2. In the Master Doc, keep only:
   • Current status of each active thing you're working on
   • A "Next Steps" section (what to do next, in priority order)
   • Key decisions + one-line reasoning (not the full debate — just the conclusion and why)
3. Everything else — long explanations, finished debates, detailed research — goes in the Archive Doc, with a short pointer left in the Master Doc ("full reasoning in Archive, section X")

🔁 The Session-Start Prompt

Paste this at the start of every new conversation, with both docs attached:

Here's my Master Doc [attached] and Archive Doc [attached].
Pick up from the "Next Steps" section and continue from there.
If anything in here seems outdated or inconsistent, flag it before
proceeding — don't just assume it's still accurate.

That last line matters more than it looks. It's what catches version drift before it snowballs into a real mistake.