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the fundamentals · step 1 of 5

meet innernet

what innernet is, the three parts it is made of, and what you will have done by the end of this walk.

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step 1 of 53 minmeet innernetwhat innernet is, the three parts it is made of, and what you will have done by the end of this walk.
step 2 of 53 mincreate your nettisign up, hold the cell, name the creature that will keep your memory, and walk through the door.
step 3 of 53 minyour first memorymake a memory from a conversation, open it, read and edit its pages, and meet the folders netti keeps inside it.
step 4 of 52 minask it anythinghow your ai finds what you need in your memory, how to ask so it finds the right thing, and what it means when it finds nothing.
step 5 of 51 mincapture without tryinghow memory gathers on its own — from your commits, from your conversations, and from one word in a terminal — and how netti folds it in.

every ai tool you use forgets you. a new chat in claude doesn't know what you told chatgpt yesterday, cursor doesn't know what you decided in a meeting, and every fresh session starts with you explaining yourself again.

innernet is one memory that all of them share. you keep using the tools you already use. they just stop forgetting.

this is the starter guide. it walks you through everything, one step at a time, with a picture of each screen. you don't need to be technical. if you can copy a link and paste it, you can do all of it.

the three parts

there are only three things to know about.

  1. 1the memory. it lives at innernet.live, not on your computer. there is one copy, so every tool reads the same thing and nothing goes out of date.
  2. 2netti. the one who keeps it. netti reads what your ai tools send, folds it into tidy pages, notices what matters about you, and asks when it isn't sure. netti is also the living creature you'll see on your screen, and yours is yours alone.
  3. 3the door. a standard called mcp that ai tools use to talk to things like innernet. you connect a tool once and it can read and write your memory from then on.
your innernet: every memory you keep, one folder each, with your netti underneath.
your innernet: every memory you keep, one folder each, with your netti underneath.

how it feels, day to day

inside your ai chat: a quiet line of what innernet read and kept, opened here into its ledger.
inside your ai chat: a quiet line of what innernet read and kept, opened here into its ledger.

you mention something worth keeping in a chat: a decision, a preference, a plan. the ai saves it to innernet without you asking. a week later, in a different tool, you ask about it, and the answer builds on what you already decided.

that's the whole idea. everything else in this walk is about seeing it, shaping it, and keeping it yours.

what you'll do in this walk

  1. 1create your netti and your account. about two minutes.
  2. 2connect your ai tools: claude, chatgpt, cursor, whatever you use.
  3. 3find your way around the dashboard: the menu, your spaces, the view chips, the colour of the ground.
  4. 4make your first memory from a conversation, and open it.
  5. 5ask it anything, and see what comes back.
  6. 6branch a memory, to try an idea without losing the old one.
  7. 7look at what innernet knows about you, and decide who can see each thing.
  8. 8read your inbox, where netti tells you what it did.
  9. 9connect a code repo, if you write software.
  10. 10set up the chat window that shows innernet inside your ai chats.
  11. 11share a page or a skill with someone.
  12. 12keep it yours: privacy, forgetting, export.

each step stands on its own, so skip anything that isn't for you. the technical side of every step lives in the docs, and each guide links to its page there.

before you start

you'll need an email address, or a google or github account, and at least one ai tool you already use. that's all. innernet doesn't install anything that runs on its own, and it never asks you to paste a password or a key into a chat.

ready? the next step creates your netti.



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