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name: idea-memo description: Save and retrieve ideas, insights, and notes during conversation. Use when user mentions ideas worth remembering or asks to recall past ideas.

Idea Memo - External Memory for Ideas

This is ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/idea-memo/SKILL.md Scripts: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/idea-memo/scripts/ Data: ~/.local/share/idea-storage/ideas/

Overview

An external memory system for storing and retrieving ideas, insights, plans, and notes. Automatically records noteworthy items from conversations and makes them searchable.

Data Structure

Copy~/.local/share/idea-storage/
├── ideas/
│   ├── YYYY-MM-DD/
│   │   └── YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MM-SS-{slug}.md
│   └── index.json  # Searchable index
└── config.json     # User preferences

Idea File Format

Copy---
id: {uuid}
title: {title}
created: {ISO8601}
updated: {ISO8601}
tags: [tag1, tag2]
status: draft|active|archived
---

{content}

Scripts

Usage Guidelines

1. When to save: User mentions "idea", "remember this", "note to self", or discusses plans
2. Auto-tagging: Infer tags from context (project names, topics, etc.)
3. Title generation: Create concise, searchable titles from content
4. Status flow: draft → active → archived

Example Workflow

Copy# Save a new idea
echo "Consider using SQLite for local caching" | \
  bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/idea-memo/scripts/save.sh \
    "SQLite local cache" project:myapp performance

# Search ideas
bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/idea-memo/scripts/search.sh "cache"

# List recent ideas
bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/idea-memo/scripts/list.sh -n 5