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An AI system I actually use every day

Not another chatbot wrapper. It's a tool I built for my own problem — and because I can see it's genuinely useful, I have the appetite to keep iterating.

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This line starts from a very personal problem: the thoughts, sketches, and half-built things I produce every day scatter across a dozen places, and then I can never find them again.

There's no shortage of note apps. But they all assume you know what you're looking for. I wanted the opposite — a system that catches the things I haven't figured out yet and, at some later moment, hands them back to me on its own.

So instead of installing something ready-made, I wrote my own.

Why it hasn't stalled halfway

A lot of my past projects died halfway through. This one didn't. The reason is simple: I use it every single day, and every day I can see it get a little better. Visible usefulness is the fuel for this particular engine.

That's also why it belongs in Syca Labs — it wasn't built to "make an AI product," it was built to solve a problem only I understand best. Original enough, real enough.

Where it's grown to now

  • It swallows text, voice, and images, and files them under the right "experiment line" automatically
  • When I open it, it picks one "thing you wanted to do three weeks ago but never touched" and hands it to me
  • It's still rough — retrieval often pulls back a pile of irrelevant stuff — but it's growing

Next I want it to tell "this is an idea" apart from "this is a post-mortem of a crash," because the moments I want to be reminded of each are completely different.

THE THREAD

  1. 2026 · JUN 30Retrieval has been lying to meTook me a whole evening to find out the problem wasn't the model — it was the metadata I stuffed in.Active