A real one
Samyak’s vault.
Everything saved so far: essays, design tools and a few AI experiments, each with a note on why it made the cut.
Brain Vault is a Chrome extension for saving articles, posts and app inspiration with a note on why. Jev files each one → and your library publishes to your own site.
Click the icon, press ⌘⇧S, or right-click any page or link. Add a line about why it caught your eye, and it’s saved.
Deep in a great article? Right-click, choose Save to Brain Vault, and the panel opens beside the page you’re reading.
Saving inspiration? Pick the Inspiration shelf and drag out the exact part of the page you want to remember. It’s kept with your note.
Jev reads the page and your note, then picks a shelf, a topic and tags in one quick request. Your own choice always wins.
Everything goes into one file in your GitHub repo and publishes with GitHub Pages. Search it later by title, tag, or the note you wrote.
⌘K searches your notes too, so “that writing thing” finds it.
Flip “Publish to GitHub” and each save goes live on your site.
Everything saved so far: essays, design tools and a few AI experiments, each with a note on why it made the cut.
It takes three things: the extension, a GitHub repo for your vault, and a small helper on your computer. Claude can set up all three for you.
Add the Brain Vault skill, open Claude Code and say “set up my Brain Vault”. It creates your vault repo, turns on GitHub Pages, starts the helper, and walks you through the one click Chrome needs from you.
Read what the skill does ›Clone the extension. It has the Chrome extension, the helper and the site.
Create a GitHub repo, copy the site into it, and turn on GitHub Pages.
Add your TypeSafe key for Jev to bridge/.env. The helper keeps running after restarts.
Turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and pick the extension folder.
I save a lot of links and used to lose almost all of them. Bookmark folders, Notes, a dozen open tabs.
Brain Vault is what I built to fix that. Every save gets a line about why it mattered, and it files itself, so future me can actually use it.