SOLO is a personal self-optimization system designed to function as a second brain and structured life operating system.
This version (v0.2) represents the foundational CLI-based journal and memory prototype. It focuses on building core memory infrastructure from scratch before integrating advanced AI components or UI systems.
This snapshot exists as a milestone before architectural refactoring.
This version was intentionally built procedurally to:
- Reinforce core Python fundamentals
- Practice JSON persistence and state mutation
- Understand memory system design at a low level
- Avoid premature abstraction
- Bootstrap architectural thinking through implementation
Rather than relying on external frameworks, this version prioritizes understanding how memory systems behave internally.
- Create structured journal entries
- Delete journal entries
- View individual entries
- List all entries
- Store entries in JSON format
- Timestamped entries
- ID-based indexing
- Structured nested tag library
- Tag validation
- Manual tag assignment
- Tag-based filtering
- Menu-based navigation
- Entry selection by ID
- Confirmation prompts for destructive actions
main.py → Entry point
menu.py → CLI routing logic
log_entry.py → Entry creation logic
utils.py → Shared utility functions
memory/
SoloJournalMemory.json
SoloTagLibrary.json
This version is procedural and file-based.
State is loaded and saved per operation.
This version:
- Uses procedural utility functions
- Reloads JSON state on each operation
- Has no domain-based class architecture
- Has no separation between notebook memory and core memory
- Has no semantic search
- Has no UI layer
- Has no AI integration
These limitations are acknowledged and intentional.
This commit marks the transition from:
Procedural prototype
→
Domain-based architecture
The next phase of development will:
- Refactor memory logic into domain store classes
- Separate Journal Memory from Core Memory
- Establish architectural boundaries
- Prepare for UI integration
- Integrate open-source AI components strategically
This snapshot preserves the learning-first implementation before refactoring.
- Introduce JournalStore class
- Introduce CoreMemoryStore class
- Centralize memory ownership
- Improve state management
- Prepare for semantic retrieval layer
- Begin UI migration (move beyond CLI)
Future phases may integrate:
- Local LLM (Ollama)
- Retrieval layer (LlamaIndex)
- Voice input (Whisper)
- GUI interface
- Network Ops orchestration module
SOLO is intended to evolve into:
- A modular life operating system
- A structured memory engine
- A contextual awareness system
- A responsive AI-assisted personal architecture
The innovation lies not in rebuilding infrastructure, but in designing the system architecture and identity layer around it.
Stable CLI prototype.
Pre-refactor milestone.
Ready for architectural evolution.