I am testing a different way to give AI memory, decisions instead of chat history

Most tools store your chat history and search it later. I tried this and it never really worked for me, the model finds an old message but it still does not know what I actually decided.

So I am testing something else. The thing I store is a decision, not a message. Each one has the decision itself, the reason behind it, the date, and a status.

Around it I keep 3 more files, one for the stable facts about me and the business, one for what I am working on right now, and one file per topic so nothing gets lost in the middle.

The part that surprised me is not the recall. It is that when I say something that goes against a decision I made before, it stops me, shows me the old one with the reason, and asks me what changed. It caught me twice this month.

It is all just markdown files right now and very manual, I am testing the behaviour first before I build anything real.

I am still not sure about 2 things. If people actually want to be confronted with their own old decisions, and how much should happen automatically vs asking me to confirm every time.

Would love to hear what you think, especially if you tried something like this and it did not work.