If your addiction has gotten this far, it's time to start labeling it as just that, and there's no shame in it.
At a certain point you need to accept that you will not be able to willpower your way out of it. You need systems and strategies in place that cut you off from your addiction.
That can look like a lot of things that I'm not going to try to stuff into an HN comment but here's what works for me:
- Leaving the house with a dumb phone. I recommend using an old smartphone that is meticulously stripped away from bad things over purchasing a flip phone. You're eventually going to need to call up an uber, scan a QR code, and other such smartphoney things you need a dumb phone to do. Leaving your environment is also key. If you must, bring your actual phone with you, but fully powered off.
- Using a feature on your phone to cut yourself off from YouTube on a scheduled basis. Most phones have something like this by default, but there are also some third party apps that take it a step further.
- Have something you enjoy to take the place of YouTube. Entertainment is healthy to an extent. Taken too far, it becomes a distraction from cognitive processes you need to be regularly engaging in, to say the least.
I never set reminders. I just cancel right away. 99.9% of the time, it will just end when the trial is over, or if I just want to pay for a month, when that period is over.
From what I can see, this just boils down to a system prompt to act like a study helper?
I would think you'd want to make something a little more bespoke to make it a fully-fledged feature, like interactive quizzes that keep score and review questions missed afterwards.
For those asking how this is different from a simple text based memory archive, I think that is answered here:
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Unlike most memory systems—which act like basic sticky notes, only showing what’s true right now. C.O.R.E is built as a dynamic, living temporal knowledge graph:
Every fact is a first-class “Statement” with full history, not just a static edge between entities.
Each statement includes what was said, who said it, when it happened, and why it matters.
You get full transparency: you can always trace the source, see what changed, and explore why the system “believes” something.
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I built this with simple text-based memory archive too. What you said is simply adding git to the equation. I tried many approaches and, to my surprise, Markdown + Git + plain-old UNIX tooling is powerful.
I've noticed that anchoring the tool on well thought out standards correlates with good performance.
Concretely: using Markdown, JSON, RFC 822 MESSAGE ID for identifying emails, or using self-contained binaries (or simply executable files with UNIX shebangs) are all instances of where I've converged after many attempts at using more complex techniques. Examples of those techniques are PostgreSQL, XML, trying to recreate what's essentially Git (for the time component), and even embeddings in some cases.
I'm not sure the graph offers any clear advantage in the demonstrated use case.
It's overhead in coding.
The source is the doc. Raw text is as much of a fact as an abstracted data structure derived from that text (which is done by an external LLM - provenance seems to break here btw, what other context is used to support that transcription, why is it more reliable than a doc within the actual codebase?).
Hey - i agree that the demonstrated use can be solved with simple plan.md file in the codebase itself.
With use-case we wanted to showcase the shareable aspect of CORE more. The main problem statement we wanted to address was "take your memory to every AI" and not repeating yourself again and again anymore.
The relational graph based aspect of CORE architecture is an overkill for simple fact recalling. But if you want an intelligent memory layer about you that can answer What, When, Why and also is accessible in all the major AI tools that you use, then CORE would make more sense.
They don't. Removing these tags will not result in any meaningful increase in page load time honestly. This is especially because most don't actually load up any linked file. Their weight is just the characters they are typed out in.
It's an informative webpage but it's not very effective optimization imo.
With Gemini, it will send as soon as I stop to think. No way to disable that.