Why I built this

I’ve spent my career working with more than one company at a time. Different tools, different tickets, different people, different stand-ups — and one brain expected to hold all of it.

The tools never helped. Every task tracker, wiki, and calendar I was given belonged to someone else’s company. When a contract ended, my history ended with it: the decisions I’d been part of, the people I’d worked with, the things I’d shipped. Badge in, badge out, memory wiped.

What I missed was a place that was mine. One journal where the day’s work lands regardless of whose Slack it happened in. Notes on people that follow the relationship, not the employer. A record of shipped work I could actually point at when review season came — without archaeology through several systems I might not even have access to anymore.

I looked for it. It didn’t exist — not in a form I’d trust with notes that span employers. That last part matters: a journal like this only works if nobody else can read it, and “we promise not to look” isn’t a guarantee, it’s a policy. So I built it end-to-end encrypted, where the guarantee is math.

save brain power is the tool I missed, built for myself first. I use it every day. Publishing it is a bet that I’m not the only one whose career is bigger than one company’s tools — if that’s you, tell me what’s missing.