You learn a lot treating yourself at home. Not from a course — from things going slightly wrong and figuring them out. What a specific alarm actually means. The order of steps that clears it. The little procedure a nurse showed me once that isn't written down anywhere.

The trouble with hard-won knowledge is that it fades. I'd solve something, feel clever, and three weeks later be back to square one, scrolling old texts trying to remember what worked. So I gave it somewhere to live.

Knowledge base screen listing saved notes such as alarm fixes and procedures
My own notes — in my words, one search away. (Synthetic data.)
Knowledge base entry editor with a title and free-text content field
Writing one down is a title and a body. Nothing else to fill in.

The version in my own words

The manual is a binder. What I needed was the version that says "when you see this, do that" — mine, phrased the way I'd explain it to myself at 6am. So each entry is just a title and free text. The moment a notes app asks me for tags and categories, I stop writing in it; the whole value is that capturing a note costs nothing.

And it quietly helps the assistant

There's a bonus I didn't plan for at first. These notes aren't only for me to read — the AI assistant can pull them in as context. So when I ask "what does this alarm mean?", the answer leans on my own documented fix instead of a generic one. The knowledge I keep for myself makes the assistant sound like me.

Next: the data I wasn't tracking at all — sleep, heart rate, the state of my body between treatments.