A tool that reads my browser history to remind me what I've built

"Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn?"

I dunno. A setback where I learned from the experience? How am I supposed to think of that on the spot?

That's what 11th-grade me thought staring at the Common App for the first time.

I could never come up with anecdotes. Not because nothing had happened, but because nothing felt like anecdote material while I was living it. So every time I sat down to write, I'd end up calling my mom. Because every time, she would bring up something I'd completely stashed away in the back of my mind: The time I spent a weekend debugging a robot that kept driving into walls. The project I abandoned halfway and rebuilt from scratch a year later for no reason except that it bothered me. Small stuff to me; but once she brought it up, we knew that it was essay material.

In the end, my mom remembered my own work better than I did. That was fine when the stakes were four college essays, but now that I've started trying to build a personal brand and write blog posts about what I make, I need a steady supply of "things I did that are worth writing about," and I can't call my mom every week.

So I built the thing that replaces the call.

It reads my browser history and my Claude & Codex logs — the two places where basically everything I do already leaves a trail — pulling out the adventures that look like they'd make a good post, the same way my mom used to zero in on the one detail worth writing about from a class project I hadn't thought about for months. One week in, and it's already surfaced two things I'd have sworn I never did.

Repo's here if you want to check it out: https://github.com/riptideiv/echoes