How ContextOS works

The whole system is built around one moment: opening a project you haven't touched in days or weeks, and needing to know what's going on in under 30 seconds. Everything else is designed backward from that moment.

1. You log context as you work

Before closing a session, jot down what you did, what's blocked, and what's next. Record a decision with the reasoning when you make a meaningful call. Drop in ideas that aren't ready to act on yet. Each piece takes seconds.

2. ContextOS structures it, not you

Rather than a blank page, every project has the same fixed shape: sessions, decisions, ideas, and a single next action. No template design, no deciding how to organize it — that's already handled.

3. You come back after a gap

Days, weeks, it doesn't matter. Instead of scrolling old commits, Slack threads, or your own notes, you open the project in ContextOS.

4. The AI resume brief reconstructs where you left off

It reads the structured history and generates a short briefing: what's been done, what was decided and why, what's still open, and what to do next. Not a summary of everything — just what you need to get moving again.

5. You get back to work, not archaeology

The goal isn't more process. It's removing the 20-30 minutes of "wait, what was I doing" that usually precedes any real work after a break.

See it end to end

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Frequently asked questions

Four things, as little or as much as you want: a quick session note, any decisions with the reasoning, ideas for later, and the next action. Even just the session note and next action is enough to generate a useful resume brief.

It reads the structured history you've logged for a project — sessions, decisions, ideas, next step — and generates a short briefing that reconstructs where things stand, so you don't have to re-read everything yourself.

Not by scanning them automatically today. You log context directly, which keeps it deliberate rather than noisy. Check the integrations page for what's currently supported.

Most people spend under a minute: what you did, what's blocked, what's next. The AI resume brief does the heavy lifting of reconstructing context later.

Nothing breaks — the next resume brief is generated from whatever's there. More consistent logging just makes the brief more useful the longer the gap.