Personal OS
My daily driver: an open-source personal system by Aman Khan that gives my AI lasting context about my goals, tasks and notes, plus about a dozen skills I wrote on top, like a weekly brief and a second-model review.
- Why
- I learn by doing. I wanted an AI that never makes me repeat myself, and I learned how that works by setting up someone else's system and then building on it until it was mine.
- How long
- Since August 2025
How I built it
- I pointed Claude Code at the PersonalOS repo on GitHub and asked it to set it up for me. It installs like a wizard.
- I used it as-is first: goals, tasks and a knowledge base in folders of plain text, plus a morning brief.
- I added a two-part memory: a short session file, and a longer-lived store for decisions, with a check so nothing stale or duplicated gets saved.
- I wrote about a dozen skills: a weekly brief that sends a helper agent over each project, a cleanup pass that hands my session to a different model to catch bias, and voice calibration for my drafts.
- To copy it you need
- Claude Code, or the AI of your choice, and the free PersonalOS repo (github.com/amanaiproduct/personal-os). Gotcha: use it plain for a few weeks before you add anything.
Try it yourself
Copy this prompt and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude to try it yourself.
I want my AI to remember my goals and projects so I stop repeating myself. Korab Eland's setup on whatarewebuilding.ai started from the open-source PersonalOS by Aman Khan (github.com/amanaiproduct/personal-os): folders of plain text for goals, tasks and notes that the AI reads first, plus a morning brief. Korab used it plain first, then added skills like a weekly brief and a second-model review. Help me set up the same base. Walk me through installing it, then interview me to fill in my goals and current projects. Don't add extras yet; Korab's advice is to use it plain until you know what's missing. Ask me for anything you need.
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