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AI Context Resources

Guides, playbooks, and tips for giving AI what it needs to work on your behalf — context anchors, agent setup, and building context-driven systems.

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August 24, 2026 · 6 min read

What Is a Timeline Anchor?

A Timeline anchor is the context file that gives AI the arc of your life — your chapters, turning points, and trajectory. Here's what goes in one.

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August 21, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Use Claude Projects (and Where They Fall Short)

Claude Projects give you a workspace with its own knowledge base and instructions. Here's how to set one up properly, and the one limit nobody mentions until you have eight of them.

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August 10, 2026 · 5 min read

What Is a Story Bank?

A Story Bank is the context file that holds the stories you tell more than once — your best material, written down so AI can use it. Here's what goes in one.

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July 31, 2026 · 6 min read

Why Your AI Drifts (and What Actually Stops It)

Context drift is when AI slowly stops following your instructions, sounding like you, or knowing your situation. Here's why it happens and what actually holds.

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July 29, 2026 · 6 min read

What Is a State of the Union Anchor?

A State of the Union anchor is the context file that tells AI where you are right now — your situation, constraints, and priorities. Here's what goes in one.

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July 22, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Give AI Your Writing Style (So It Actually Sounds Like You)

Pasting one sample won't make AI write in your style. The durable fix is a writing codex — extract your voice once, own it as a file, use it in every tool. Here's how.

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July 21, 2026 · 6 min read

Dharmesh Shah Is Right About Portable AI Context. Here's the Hard Part.

HubSpot's Dharmesh Shah says portable markdown files future-proof your AI workflows. He's right. But what actually goes in the file? The hard part, explained.

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July 13, 2026 · 6 min read

The Best Ways to Give AI Lasting Memory (2026), Compared

ChatGPT remembers you. Claude doesn't, unless you tell it. Gemini keeps its own notes. Here are the real ways to give an AI lasting memory, compared — and the one that actually travels from tool to tool.

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July 9, 2026 · 7 min read

What Is Context Mining?

Context mining is the guided process of surfacing the personal context an AI actually needs — answering curated questions that pull out the durable things about you that you'd never think to write down.

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