Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith
"The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionA Mathematical Theory of Communication
"Shannon's key insight: meaning is irrelevant to the engineering problem of communication" #information-theoryDefinition, captured
"stigmergy — organisms coordinating through traces left in the environment, not direct signals" #emergenceThe Use of Knowledge in Society
"Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeDesign review
"client keeps choosing the denser option. said they want minimal. the saves say otherwise" #tasteUser research
"three user interviews mentioned 'trust' — each time meaning something different" #discoveryLecture note
"Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessJaneway's Immunobiology
"The immune system recognizes self. Everything else gets a response." #recognitionTeam retro
"the onboarding decision from Q2 resurfaced in the retention retro. nobody connected them" #decisionsArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts
"half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyA Pattern Language
"Alexander, 1977: 'a pattern language is a network of patterns that call upon one another'" #design-patternsgwern.net
"Gwern on spaced repetition: the real cost isn't forgetting, it's never encoding in the first place" #memoryWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things
"Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognitionDev journal
"we keep re-deriving things the codebase already solved. git blame is not knowledge management" #infrastructure
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith
"The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionA Mathematical Theory of Communication
"Shannon's key insight: meaning is irrelevant to the engineering problem of communication" #information-theoryDefinition, captured
"stigmergy — organisms coordinating through traces left in the environment, not direct signals" #emergenceThe Use of Knowledge in Society
"Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeDesign review
"client keeps choosing the denser option. said they want minimal. the saves say otherwise" #tasteUser research
"three user interviews mentioned 'trust' — each time meaning something different" #discoveryLecture note
"Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessJaneway's Immunobiology
"The immune system recognizes self. Everything else gets a response." #recognitionTeam retro
"the onboarding decision from Q2 resurfaced in the retention retro. nobody connected them" #decisionsArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts
"half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyA Pattern Language
"Alexander, 1977: 'a pattern language is a network of patterns that call upon one another'" #design-patternsgwern.net
"Gwern on spaced repetition: the real cost isn't forgetting, it's never encoding in the first place" #memoryWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things
"Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognitionDev journal
"we keep re-deriving things the codebase already solved. git blame is not knowledge management" #infrastructure
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith
"The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionA Mathematical Theory of Communication
"Shannon's key insight: meaning is irrelevant to the engineering problem of communication" #information-theoryDefinition, captured
"stigmergy — organisms coordinating through traces left in the environment, not direct signals" #emergenceThe Use of Knowledge in Society
"Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeDesign review
"client keeps choosing the denser option. said they want minimal. the saves say otherwise" #tasteUser research
"three user interviews mentioned 'trust' — each time meaning something different" #discoveryLecture note
"Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessJaneway's Immunobiology
"The immune system recognizes self. Everything else gets a response." #recognitionTeam retro
"the onboarding decision from Q2 resurfaced in the retention retro. nobody connected them" #decisionsArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts
"half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyA Pattern Language
"Alexander, 1977: 'a pattern language is a network of patterns that call upon one another'" #design-patternsgwern.net
"Gwern on spaced repetition: the real cost isn't forgetting, it's never encoding in the first place" #memoryWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things
"Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognitionDev journal
"we keep re-deriving things the codebase already solved. git blame is not knowledge management" #infrastructure
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith
"The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionA Mathematical Theory of Communication
"Shannon's key insight: meaning is irrelevant to the engineering problem of communication" #information-theoryDefinition, captured
"stigmergy — organisms coordinating through traces left in the environment, not direct signals" #emergenceThe Use of Knowledge in Society
"Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeDesign review
"client keeps choosing the denser option. said they want minimal. the saves say otherwise" #tasteUser research
"three user interviews mentioned 'trust' — each time meaning something different" #discoveryLecture note
"Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessJaneway's Immunobiology
"The immune system recognizes self. Everything else gets a response." #recognitionTeam retro
"the onboarding decision from Q2 resurfaced in the retention retro. nobody connected them" #decisionsArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts
"half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyA Pattern Language
"Alexander, 1977: 'a pattern language is a network of patterns that call upon one another'" #design-patternsgwern.net
"Gwern on spaced repetition: the real cost isn't forgetting, it's never encoding in the first place" #memoryWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things
"Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognitionDev journal
"we keep re-deriving things the codebase already solved. git blame is not knowledge management" #infrastructure
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith
"The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionA Mathematical Theory of Communication
"Shannon's key insight: meaning is irrelevant to the engineering problem of communication" #information-theoryDefinition, captured
"stigmergy — organisms coordinating through traces left in the environment, not direct signals" #emergenceThe Use of Knowledge in Society
"Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeDesign review
"client keeps choosing the denser option. said they want minimal. the saves say otherwise" #tasteUser research
"three user interviews mentioned 'trust' — each time meaning something different" #discoveryLecture note
"Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessJaneway's Immunobiology
"The immune system recognizes self. Everything else gets a response." #recognitionTeam retro
"the onboarding decision from Q2 resurfaced in the retention retro. nobody connected them" #decisionsArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts
"half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyA Pattern Language
"Alexander, 1977: 'a pattern language is a network of patterns that call upon one another'" #design-patternsgwern.net
"Gwern on spaced repetition: the real cost isn't forgetting, it's never encoding in the first place" #memoryWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things
"Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognitionDev journal
"we keep re-deriving things the codebase already solved. git blame is not knowledge management" #infrastructure
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith
"The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionA Mathematical Theory of Communication
"Shannon's key insight: meaning is irrelevant to the engineering problem of communication" #information-theoryDefinition, captured
"stigmergy — organisms coordinating through traces left in the environment, not direct signals" #emergenceThe Use of Knowledge in Society
"Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeDesign review
"client keeps choosing the denser option. said they want minimal. the saves say otherwise" #tasteUser research
"three user interviews mentioned 'trust' — each time meaning something different" #discoveryLecture note
"Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessJaneway's Immunobiology
"The immune system recognizes self. Everything else gets a response." #recognitionTeam retro
"the onboarding decision from Q2 resurfaced in the retention retro. nobody connected them" #decisionsArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts
"half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyA Pattern Language
"Alexander, 1977: 'a pattern language is a network of patterns that call upon one another'" #design-patternsgwern.net
"Gwern on spaced repetition: the real cost isn't forgetting, it's never encoding in the first place" #memoryWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things
"Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognitionDev journal
"we keep re-deriving things the codebase already solved. git blame is not knowledge management" #infrastructure
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith
"The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionA Mathematical Theory of Communication
"Shannon's key insight: meaning is irrelevant to the engineering problem of communication" #information-theoryDefinition, captured
"stigmergy — organisms coordinating through traces left in the environment, not direct signals" #emergenceThe Use of Knowledge in Society
"Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeDesign review
"client keeps choosing the denser option. said they want minimal. the saves say otherwise" #tasteUser research
"three user interviews mentioned 'trust' — each time meaning something different" #discoveryLecture note
"Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessJaneway's Immunobiology
"The immune system recognizes self. Everything else gets a response." #recognitionTeam retro
"the onboarding decision from Q2 resurfaced in the retention retro. nobody connected them" #decisionsArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts
"half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyA Pattern Language
"Alexander, 1977: 'a pattern language is a network of patterns that call upon one another'" #design-patternsgwern.net
"Gwern on spaced repetition: the real cost isn't forgetting, it's never encoding in the first place" #memoryWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things
"Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognitionDev journal
"we keep re-deriving things the codebase already solved. git blame is not knowledge management" #infrastructure
Most memory layers start empty.
Yours doesn't have to.
You've captured thousands of ideas. Enzyme treats
your knowledge base as the
memory layer. It reads the
structure you already created—tags,
folders, links, temporality—and
learns connections from it.
Other memory layers build a graph from conversations.
Enzyme learns the graph from your data.
SETUP
Point it at a folder.
›enzyme init
Indexed: 1,247 discovered, 1,247 new
Catalysts:84 generated
Discovering entities [14/14]
~#user-interviews→ What does the recurring mention of ‘trust’ across interviews reveal…
~/ investor-updates→ How does the framing of retention shift between Q2 and Q3…
~[[retention]]→ What assumption about churn is contradicted by the onboarding…
~#product-decisions→ What does the gap between stated priorities and actual velocity…
Embedded: 980 docs (1,948 docs/sec)
Similarities: 84 catalysts × 980 documents
Done!(14.2s)
Tags, folders, links, timestamps—whatever structure
you already have. No configuration.
IN SESSION
The right context, before the first question.
User
“Why is retention dropping if onboarding scores are up?”
agent ▸enzyme catalyze"retention onboarding"
matched catalyst·[[retention]]
“What assumption about churn is contradicted by the onboarding data in the Q3 investor update?”
→investor-updates/q3.md
→interviews/user-12.md
→journal/aug-04.md
result
The Q3 investor update frames churn as an activation problem.
But user 12’s interview says the opposite—they activated
fine, then left because the product didn’t match what
onboarding promised.
Enzyme connected an investor update and a user interview that never reference each other.
Connections are pre-computed at init. Queries are a database lookup—not
a vector search, not an LLM call. The embedding model is 23MB. The binary
is 11MB. Everything runs on CPU, on your infrastructure.
15sinit / 1,000+ docs
~8mssemantic search
$0per query
34MBbinary + model
No cloud. No vector database. No API key. Your infrastructure, your data.
Works with Claude Code · Cursor · Obsidian · Hermes · more coming
Thinkers using Enzyme to surface what matters in their notes.
"Enzyme can surface connections I'd only make if I had instant recall... freeing me to use that energy to create and write... I think this is just the beginning."
life coach (NYC)
"Enzyme helps me build richer, more cohesive themes and think more deeply."
HCI researcher, ex-Spotify (Zurich)
"I have a workflow that I love with Readwise, Snipd, and Obsidian. Enzyme beats inertia by quickly drawing me deeper into the meaning of what I'm doing."
songwriter and pastor (NYC)
Build products on what your users have captured.
Your users bring collections. Enzyme gives your agent their conceptual
landscape from the first session.