Markdown Memory

Fable 5 is unusually good at exploiting written records of its own past mistakes and confirmed approaches. A directory of Markdown files is enough — no database required. What matters is the maintenance discipline, because a memory full of stale or duplicate notes is worse than none.

Layout

memory/
  lessons/
    one-lesson-per-file.md
  INDEX.md   # one line per lesson, regenerated when lessons change

Lesson file format

• Line 1: a one-sentence summary that makes sense without opening the file.
• Body: what happened, what the correct approach is, and why it mattered — the why is what generalizes.
• Record both corrections (things that went wrong) and confirmations (approaches validated under pressure).