Book + course notes

Chapter takeaways that compound.

For readers and lifelong learners. Per-chapter notes become a hub the concept index quietly weaves into a personal curriculum.

The pain

  • You finish a book, write 5 takeaways, close the file. Six months later you can't recall whether it was Munger or Buffett who said the thing about inversion.
  • Online courses scatter notes across Notion / Apple Notes / a half-finished Obsidian vault. None of them deploy to your AI.
  • Each chapter feels isolated when you write it. The connections to other books / courses don't surface until you're already trying to remember them.
  • Re-reading is expensive. Without compounding notes, every revisit starts from page 1.

What you do in Memory.Wiki

  1. 1
    One doc per chapter (or per lecture)
    Drop in your raw takeaways. Memory.Wiki doesn't care if it's bullet form or prose. The title is the chapter — that's the H1, that's the address.
  2. 2
    Let recurring concepts surface themselves
    Concept index auto-runs. After 3-5 chapters, the cross-chapter concepts (inversion, second-order thinking, etc.) get the orange dot in the sidebar Concepts list.
  3. 3
    Bundle by theme — not by book
    "Mental models for risk" might pull 3 chapters from one book + 2 from another + a course module. The Bundle is the curriculum you wish someone had assembled.
  4. 4
    Ask the hub what you've learned
    "What have I read about inversion?" Hub recall returns every chapter that touched the concept with the exact passages. Better than your own memory.

What you get back

  • Concept clusters emerge as you read more — the wiki compounds without manual cross-linking.
  • Compiling a Brief from a theme-bundle gives you the synthesis you'd otherwise have to write yourself.
  • Year-end "what did I learn this year?" answers itself.
  • When you write something new, paste the hub URL into Claude — it argues with your past self using your own notes.

Worked example

Example: 40 chapters from 6 books → mental-models hub

Concept index links "inversion" across Charlie Munger / Annie Duke / Shane Parrish. Bundle "Decisions under uncertainty" pulls 8 chapters. Compile to Brief → a 600-word synthesis you didn't have to write.

Try it with what's on your desk right now.

No signup. Drop in your first doc and the URL is yours.

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Other shapes the URL takes

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