My-Brain-Is-Full-Crew vs rowboat
8 AI agents + 14 skills that run your Obsidian vault through chat — capture, triage, search, linking, vault health, transcription, email and calendar. One codebase, four agent platforms, any language. — versus — Desktop AI coworker (YC S24) that indexes email, meetings and Slack into a living backlinked knowledge graph, then acts on it — email client, browser, meeting notes, background agents, code mode.
Two shapes of the same idea — an AI that manages your work life on top of a persistent, human-readable memory: Rowboat is a desktop app with its own surfaces (email, browser, meetings) over a Markdown graph; the Crew is a team of agents living inside your existing Obsidian vault, driven purely by chat.
| My-Brain-Is-Full-Crew | rowboat | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 3.2k | 17k |
| Forks | 335 | 1.6k |
| Language | Shell | TypeScript |
| License | NOASSERTION | Apache-2.0 |
| Last activity | 19 days ago | today |
| Topics | agents, skills | agents, memory |
| Curated connections | 2 | 3 |
My-Brain-Is-Full-Crew — the curator's take
Built from lived need — a PhD researcher whose memory was slipping — and it shows in the design: this is for people who are drowning, not optimizing. The chat IS the interface (no folder dragging), a dispatcher chains agents automatically (transcribe a meeting → Architect creates the project structure), it answers in whatever language you speak, and 'create a new agent' is a guided conversation, not a config file. Installs onto Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenCode or Codex from one source. NOT a note-taking plugin: it assumes you hand vault management over entirely, and email/calendar agents mean third-party data — read the disclaimers, they're unusually serious (GitHub reports no standard license; usage is Terms-of-Use gated). Pair judgment: rowboat is the app-shaped version of this idea; this is the vault-shaped one.
rowboat — the curator's take
The thesis is memory that compounds vs retrieval that starts cold: everything you touch gets indexed into an Obsidian-style backlinked graph stored as plain local Markdown — inspectable, editable, yours — and the work surfaces (email client that drafts replies with full context, isolated browser, local meeting transcriber, event/schedule-triggered background agents) all read from it. Code mode drives Claude Code or Codex with that context. BYO model including Ollama. Use it if you want one desktop app to BE the AI layer over your work life. When NOT: it's maximalist by nature — email + browser + meetings + code in one young app means breadth outruns polish in places, and Google-service setup is a manual OAuth dance. Data stays local; that part they got exactly right.