MyVault — your second brain
Learn about MyVault — your second brain in WaymakerOS.
MyVault is your private space for notes and files inside Waymaker. Capture a thought, keep a research folder, drop in a brand deck or a video — it's all in one place, versioned, and it's yours. Think of it as a second brain that your AI assistant can read, organise, and build on.
Every person gets their own MyVault. It's private to you — even an organisation admin can't read another person's vault.
What's inside
- Notes — markdown documents, organised into folders, fully searchable, with version history. See Writing & editing notes.
- Files — images, PDFs, decks, spreadsheets, videos — any size, kept alongside the notes that reference them. See Working with files.
- Links between them — reference a file from a note, connect notes to each other, and let your AI assistant tie it all together.
Notes you're done with can be archived — moved out of your folder tree into the Archive, kept safe but out of the way. See Writing & editing notes.
Four ways to use it
You can reach the same vault from wherever you work:
| Where | What it's good for |
|---|---|
| Commander (web) | Read, write, and organise notes; attach and preview files; search everything. |
| Your AI assistant | Ask Claude (or Cursor, Claude Code) to capture, find, summarise, or file things for you. See Connect AI Tools. |
| VS Code / your editor | Open your whole vault as a folder of real files and edit with your coding agent. |
| Terminal (CLI) | Push files up from the command line with waymaker vault add. See the vault command. |
Open your vault in VS Code
MyVault is a versioned folder you can clone and edit locally — a more powerful, AI-native alternative to a
notes app. Your AI assistant can set this up: ask it to "generate a clone command for my vault," or use the
commander_notes_vault_clone_token tool. Once cloned, open the folder in VS Code, Cursor, or Claude Code —
the CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files at the root give your coding agent the context it needs automatically.
Full setup, including how to keep real files (not placeholders) in your editor, is in the Connect AI Tools guide.
Connected devices
Each place you connect — your laptop, a second computer, a browser clipper, or an AI agent session — gets its own credential. They all stay connected at the same time, so you can edit from anywhere without one connection knocking out another.
Manage them under Notes → Settings → Connect → Connected devices:
- See every connected device, when each was last used.
- Revoke any single device without affecting the others — useful if you lose a laptop or want to clean up old connections.
- Generating a new connection never disconnects your existing ones.
If you connected a device before this was introduced, it keeps working but shows as an "Earlier connection" until you reconnect it — reconnect once to manage it individually.
Privacy & ownership
- Your vault is private to you and scoped to your account.
- Everything is versioned — you can see history and recover earlier versions of a note.
- It's portable — because your vault is a standard versioned folder, you can clone it and keep your own copy any time.
Related
- Writing & editing notes — the editor, tables, wiki-links, archiving, importing
- Working with files — upload, download, and manage any-size files
- Connect AI Tools — use MyVault from Claude, Cursor, or Claude Code
- vault command (CLI) —
waymaker vault add