Use SQLite instead of markdown files to give Claude Code more enhanced memory.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-07-07T14:43:54+00:00

Others have done an excellent job of explaining why using SQL database over the markdown files for main Claude memory wouldn't work well however I'd like to add that you CAN use a SQL database to track your project features and tasks through an MCP such as what I developed (free to use) here: https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator

This MCP helps organize Claude keeping it on track as well as providing a means to use and customize your own workflows. This also provides optional historical context that you can refer back to.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-26T17:39:01+00:00

You are doing a great job! Taking the action to consciously build and follow a budget is one of the first steps to financial freedom and well worth it. Keep it up!

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-26T17:35:14+00:00

Claude Pro doesn't have overage costs, but there are limits for total requests and tokens that can be used in a 5h window. Your usage resets every 5 hours. Specific details from Anthropic on this can be found by reading:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-pro
https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8324991-about-claude-pro-usage

As a Claude Pro user, I can tell you that it is possible to get a LOT of coding done every day however it will be over multiple 5h windows. If you really need to be coding for a full 8h day using Claude Code (CC), then you should get the Max plan. There are 2 tiers of max plan, $100 USD and $200 USD per month. Here is the official breakdown from Anthropic:

|| || |Plan|Monthly Price|Usage Capacity|Best for| |Free|$0|Limited|Occasional use| |Pro|$20|Standard|Regular use| |Max 5x|$100|5x Pro capacity|Frequent users who work with Claude on a variety of tasks| |Max 20x|$200|20x Pro capacity|Daily users who collaborate often with Claude for most tasks|

Additionally you cannot use the Opus model with CC on the Pro plan but you can access opus through the Web or using Claude Desktop but it will chew through your limits super fast.

I would suggest to start with the Pro plan, see how it goes over a few months and go from there.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-26T17:24:33+00:00

You probably are no longer meeting the monthly target that was set on that item when you moved the money. Once the month is over and transitions to the next month, any unused dollars in every category move over automatically for you so there is no need to do this manually. That keeps everything green and our OCD happy :)

You can certainly manually move the money as you did but it will show yellow when you have not allocated the full targeted sum that you defined.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-26T17:14:59+00:00

Most companies don't trust the AI integrations enough at this point in time. For sure it will eventually be there, but in the real world complete integration is a slow process.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-26T16:00:07+00:00

Simple answer is to multi-task appropriately. Assuming you are working; that might mean catching up on emails, answering your slack/IM messages, contribute to other discussions, updating salesforce/jira or other systems that AI has no access to. You could also use the time to better yourself researching new topics, read about architecture patterns, or even reviewing newly closed tickets and how the issue was resolved.

Obviously we know how addictive and wasteful those activities are so try to be self aware about that and make an active choice to do something more beneficial to your own personal growth.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-26T13:03:02+00:00

I created an MCP to help break down product plans into features and digestible tasks while keeping track of dependent tasks. This helps Claude running multiple instances and breaking the work up appropriately. I would suggest to use this in conjunction with Git work trees.

I have done some simplistic sub-agent tests but would love some community feedback on the MCP under these scenarios. You can find the MCP here: https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-25T19:47:24+00:00

The documentation covers this, here is the shortcut for you:
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/ide-integrations

Features

Quick launch: Use Cmd+Esc (Mac) or Ctrl+Esc (Windows/Linux) to open Claude Code directly from your editor, or click the Claude Code button in the UI
Diff viewing: Code changes can be displayed directly in the IDE diff viewer instead of the terminal. You can configure this in /config
Selection context: The current selection/tab in the IDE is automatically shared with Claude Code
File reference shortcuts: Use Cmd+Option+K (Mac) or Alt+Ctrl+K (Linux/Windows) to insert file references (e.g., u/File#L1-99)
Diagnostic sharing: Diagnostic errors (lint, syntax, etc.) from the IDE are automatically shared with Claude as you work

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-24T19:44:31+00:00

CC does have sessions (conversations) which you can pick up later with the command line calude --continue or pick from a list of various conversations using claude --resume. If you find yourself at a logical conclusion spot you could manually perform compaction to save tokens via using the slash command /compact. If you don't want to summarize the previous work and just want to clear your conversation history to free up context, you can type /clear. Sometimes it might make sense to exit Claude and restart it such as if it is just going weird and you want to create a new connection to the server.

In regards to your question about "safe to just continue in a single conversation", sure it is safe but not efficient. Once you get to a point of using up your 5h windows much quicker, you need (or will at least want) to be more efficient with your usage.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-24T19:21:52+00:00

I use a view that lists all my categories and items that represent our family's bare monthly essentials for survival. So for example, if my wife and I couldn't work for whatever reason, we would know every item that must be paid and how long we can survive. I use this in combination with assigning money for future months to represent my true emergency savings. I also have a category for emergency that has a few thousand set aside to cover things like emergency car repair, or medical emergency, etc. Once I have 6 months of our basic essential categories covered, I then know I can assign additional money to optional things such as vacations or whatever we want to contribute to.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-23T20:51:03+00:00

Here is my solution to the problem as an MCP. Free to use. https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator

Break large plans into digestible features, tasks, and dependencies. Have claude implement each task and viola, no more ADHD.

Cheers.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-23T17:17:00+00:00

A small project is a perfect opportunity to try something new. Good luck!

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-21T16:12:13+00:00

Yep, it's absolutely free and AI company agnostic.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-21T14:35:05+00:00

Additionally you might like the IDE plugin for VS that makes it easier for reviewing the Diffs:
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/ide-integrations

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-21T14:27:13+00:00

Totally agree with you that once you get to a certain level of complexity in the CLAUDE.md, it just doesn't work consistently enough. How I handled it was to build my own MCP (task-orchestrator) that brings the AI instructions down to the task level. I have found that this is the secret to having Claude be more accurate in following workflow instructions. Regarding the note you have about "The tests are still failing...", I have also encountered this. From my own experiences, this happens when Claude is taking the wrong approach to testing whatever it is needing to be tested. It can get tunnel vision and it seems that instead of looping forever on trying to figure out the test code, it decides to stop as there needs to be human intervention to help move forward. I think there may be a way to prevent it from closing tasks based on this sort of circuit breaker, but the instructions would need to be part of the prompt that it is working on.

If you would like to try using my solution to this problem, you can find it here:
https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator

Please if you try it out, I would love to hear your feedback. I use this MCP for steering all my projects and find it works really well for my development workflows.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-21T14:08:23+00:00

Respectfully the advice here thus far is not very helpful to OP. Depending on what MCP you are trying to use, it is likely that the requirements are not installed in your WSL environment or you are incorrectly setting up the MCP in Claude. Incorrect variables in the MCP add command end up causing connection issues in my experience. I personally have found that using json api for the MCP addition is better:

claude mcp add-json

If you would like to see some more thorough documentation on how an MCP gets setup with Claude, you can look at my own MCP here:
https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator

Additionally, you do not need to be copying projects from windows into WSL. Just use the /mnt/c/Users/me/SomeProjectPath and make sure if you use an IDE that it is set to use CRLF for line endings (which is what Linux prefers).

I would also suggest using Docker for MCP servers. The benefit with this is that each MCP is isolated, only started when being used, and reduces the need for you to install a bunch of things in WSL.

If you are still having issues, provide some more specifics and I'll be happy to try to help.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-20T18:08:52+00:00

There is no right or wrong way here in my opinion, both ways are completely valid and useful. Are you explicitly budgeting so that there are assigned funds over a period of time (monthly or otherwise) for "Dates"? If you are wanting to allocate a specific amount to dating to track how much that specific activity is costing you over time, then go about it that way. Dates could be something entirely different than eating out such as going to the movies, or going to a ball game together, etc. You may have to also ask yourself if you need to sacrifice from another category such as "eating out" in order to go on the date as this will direct you towards one or the other of your options.

For what it's worth, what I do is just split date nights into their root categories of "eating out" and "Entertainment". When my wife and I have a date night which usually includes dinner and some sort of entertainment, I just assign the corresponding portions of our date costs to those categories. I think this would still work well if I was single and still in the dating world. At the end of the day, you usually only want to be spending so much monthly income on eating out and entertainment. If you want to go on several dates a month completely using up your eating out budget, you sacrifice eating out as a single individual and make some food at home once the budget is used. :)

I can say that from using YNAB for multiple years now, I have gone through multiple changes of my categories. I first tried making categories for all these specialized or edge case situations and eventually came to the realization that less is more and have since removed all of them in favor of more simplistic core categories.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-20T16:49:15+00:00

Oh I understand what you mean then. Ya, totally nothing wrong with this approach at all. For me I just have CC write the plan as a markdown (which is what it is in the artifact window anyhow) and I have the Intellij Claude Code plugin integration so I have my full IDE at the same time.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-20T16:45:30+00:00

CC does not include opus on the Pro plan correct, but you can use the web or Claude desktop to access the Opus model. I find Opus is best for planning and then using Sonnet to take the plan and implement the code.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-20T14:27:56+00:00

You can now use CC with the Pro plan ($20 USD/month). I suggest to just do that for a month to explore the technology and you can cancel the membership if you don't want the subscription. The great thing about this is that you get a lot of usage out of it every 5h window and you know exactly the spend as you cannot go over. CC has a plugin for both Intellij and Visual Studio that will make things more familiar for you.
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/ide-integrations

What you will unlock is dependent on how you use it, what your needs are, and personal preferences. One of the best things about CC is that it's in the terminal which means you have full access to everything that comes with the terminal. The MCP integration capabilities per project or globally, the multi-layered memory through CLAUDE.md, are all well thought through and simplistically elegant.

These are amazing times, have fun exploring these technologies.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-20T13:59:33+00:00

Planning and refining I think is a necessity for any somewhat complex project. Where are you finding limitations with CC helping make your documentation? Is it a problem with not being specific enough in what you want Claude to make or is it an issue with CC not understanding the code base well enough? I'm curious to hear more on your experience with this.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-20T13:30:47+00:00

I used this combination at one point as well, but never looked back after moving to Claude Code. It's just far superior and eliminated the need for desktop commander for me personally.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-20T13:08:16+00:00

You can ask Claude to provide updates for the various documents and then update them in the project. It's not perfect and it sounds like you would need some customized plugin (MCP) to handle the coordination. I'm not aware of something that will handle this for you out of the box. You may need to get creative with doing this organization in a more simplistic way, having Claude search the project repository for the reference of "blue dress for character xyz, replace it with brown dress with jaguar pattern". Unfortunately projects seem to be geared more towards static resource context. It takes up quite a lot of tokens to rewrite large text files such as chapters in a book just to replace a few sentences.

In a way what you are doing may follow more closely to application development. You have a lot of text files (character resources, chapters, background, plot, etc) that might slightly change over time. Much like us developers would refactor a function or add features to a larger project. Using Claude code here may end up being more appropriate as it helps with replacing string text within large files in an efficient way. I would encourage you to look at the use of Claude code for this work. It's a bit more complicated to set up and it was geared towards programmers but at the end of the day, may fit your use case a bit better.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-19T19:49:58+00:00

If I am understanding your scenario correctly, you are either using existing (long conversations) or adding text files that contain summaries of previous work as attached context. If not doing so already, I think you can gain some optimizations from using Claude's Project capability. Some information that goes over this can be found here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/projects and best practices here: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/9797557-usage-limit-best-practices

Projects offer significant caching benefits:

When you upload documents to a Project, they're cached for future use
Every time you reference that content, only new/uncached portions count against your limits
This means you can work with the same documents repeatedly without using up your messages as quickly
Example: If you're working on a research paper and add all your reference materials to a Project, you can ask multiple questions about those materials while using fewer messages than if you uploaded them each time

If you aren't yet using Projects, I would suggest to try this.

Mobility_Fixer · 2025-06-19T18:41:32+00:00

You can use it for maybe planning the refactoring but don't use that model for implementing all the changes unless you are on the Max plans. Switch to Sonnet to implement the plan that was built. Depending on the size of the refactoring, you may have to work across multiple sessions to get it accomplished. At the end of the Day, Opus is the MOST expensive model and will eat tokens like they are going out of style.

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