What Cranes is
A working draft of how you think, kept from what you’ve actually said, and carried into the AI you already use.
Cranes keeps a working draft of how you think. It reads what you write, the conversations you bring in, and the ideas you share with other AI apps, and it drafts chapters about the judgment underneath: what you notice, what you care about, what you’d answer for, and what has changed your mind.
Then it takes that draft with you. When you connect ChatGPT, Claude, or another AI, Cranes hands it the few parts of your thinking that matter for the question in front of it, so you spend less time explaining yourself from scratch.
What it isn’t
Cranes is not a notes app, a document editor, or a place to store files. You won’t organize anything into folders. It is also not a personality test: it doesn’t tell you what kind of person you are, and every chapter is written about a judgment, not about “you.”
It is also not trying to replace the AI you already use. Most of the time you’ll talk to your usual AI, and Cranes works quietly beside it.
What you’ll find inside
- Your thinking is the draft itself: chapters grouped into parts, like a book that keeps revising itself.
- Entries are the exact material the draft is drawn from: your messages, notes, files, and imports. Nothing in your thinking stands without an entry behind it.
- Threads are conversations inside Cranes. Everything you say in one becomes an entry, and replies draw on your thinking.
- Connected AIs are the apps you’ve let use your thinking, and only the parts you chose.
It’s a draft on purpose
Nothing in Cranes is settled until what you’ve said backs it. Chapters change as you bring in more, correct what’s off, or change your mind. Each one shows the moments it rests on, marks what is still forming, and explains why it reads the way it does. If a chapter gets you wrong, you say so the way you would to a person, and Cranes takes it into account.
Your own, and shared
Everyone has their own thinking, which only they can read. A team can also keep the team’s thinking, which describes how the team works, and a few people can share a group. These never leak into each other: what you keep for yourself never shapes an answer that someone else will read.