- How is this different from Notion or Obsidian?
- Those are storage tools. You put things in, you get them out when you remember to look. Forge is a pattern engine. It watches what you capture over time and tells you when something in your thinking deserves attention. You don't organise anything.
- Does it rewrite or summarise my thoughts?
- No. Your thought is stored exactly as you wrote it. Nothing is paraphrased or interpreted at capture. The AI processes it in the background to find connections — but what you wrote stays what you wrote.
- What's a brief?
- When a cluster of related thoughts reaches a threshold — enough thoughts, enough semantic similarity, enough time — Forge generates a brief. It's a clear summary of the pattern: what keeps coming up, why it might matter, what's blocking you, and one obvious next step. It's solution-agnostic. It might point toward code, a purchase, a habit, research, or a conversation. Not always a product.
- How do I get access?
- Forge is a personal tool built for a small group of people. If you're here, someone who uses it sent you. Log in with your InCharacter account if you have one, or ask the person who sent you here.
- Is it free?
- Yes. There's no pricing. It runs on infrastructure I pay for.
- What AI does it use?
- Claude (Anthropic) for brief generation and pattern reasoning. The lightweight background processing — tagging, similarity, clustering — runs continuously as you capture.
- Is my data private?
- Yes. Your thoughts are stored in a private database tied to your account. They are not used to train any model. They are not shared with anyone. See the privacy page for the full policy.
- Can I export my data?
- Yes. You can export individual briefs as markdown, copy them to clipboard, and export all your captured thoughts from the settings page.