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1.Where does your “second brain” break down the most?

At work my 2nd brain is confluence. Most info goes into shared spaces.

Often search doesn't find what I need easily so search becomes a context switch (sub mission)

Rovo can be helpful though. Where I work has good culture of documenting things which helps.

2.What best represents “active project context” for you today?

Jira task status 80%; Plus Slack save for laters 15%; Then a confluence todo list 5%

Which one would you actually allow a tool to read?

All of them

3.What’s your hard “no” for an AI that suggests actions from your notes/links? (pick 1–2)

Activation energy to get a 3rd party AI approved in my org for compliance is enormous. Plus we dogfood our own.

It won't happen until you become the next Cursor or Loveable and even then maybe not. (we can't run CC lol!)

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This is super helpful, thanks. The “search as a context switch” point is real, and the 80/15/5 split (Jira/Slack/Confluence) matches what I’ve seen too.

On the compliance point: totally fair. To clarify, I’m not assuming a company-wide deployment — I’m primarily thinking about a personal tool/workflow where you control what it can read (and for many people that means local-only or only non-sensitive sources). Your environment is a good reminder that “enterprise-ready” integrations are a different game.

If you could improve your personal workflow, what would save you the most time: pulling the right Confluence page when a Jira task is active, extracting a short “what’s the current state + next step” from scattered Slack threads, or something else?

More context on what I’m validating is in my HN profile/bio if you’re curious.

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I will answer then check the bio :). Mom test and all that.

So with compliance even connecting a tool I download to an approved LLM is difficult. I need to get approval. If the tool is just a tool and doesn't use AI (and thus send out private data) it is easier. I think that is a problem they should solve i.e. give a safe LLM endpoint and let me choose my tools but alas.

I think what saves me time is difficult to say. Well organized docs OR an AI that can do that to AGI levels of intellegence. Fuzzy isn't helpful (I already have lots of fuzzy options). I need bulletproof correct info.

The pain isn't in the clicks to find info it is in understanding what I am reading and if it is relevant.

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Now read your profile link.

Something like this can be somewhat useful (not saying I would pay though!)

I would like to have 1000 or so vetted docs (can manually or AI vet). E.g. public API doc > internal API doc > Internal RFC > Some guys internal note they made public.

Take RFC and higher links and surface the ones I need for thw project. Chuck them in the Jira ticket.

That would be handy. But it isn't my biggest problem. So not sure how that squares up. With AI I can build this internally in a bespoke way (this is the general disruption AI has on any SaaS idea lol!) so not sure what sauce you would need.

The other AI problem is you are fighting the bitter lesson. By October CC might do this as a one sentence one shot.

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Thanks for your support! And you’re right, what you described is very much the enterprise version of this problem (curated corpora + Jira/Confluence + compliance).

Just to clarify my scope: I’m starting with a personal, individual workflow (toC) where you control the sources end-to-end — local files, bookmarks, email, personal docs, etc. I’m not assuming company integrations, approval flows, or “drop into Jira” as the primary surface (those are a different product/compliance game).

That said, your “vetted docs + provenance + surface into the place you already work” framing is still useful in the personal setting too: a small trusted set of sources, always show citations/snippets, and a low-friction output surface (e.g. a task/project note you already use).

If you were applying the same idea personally, what would your “output surface” be — a todo app, calendar, a project doc, or just a weekly review note?