Learn MYOS
Areas
An area is a work stream with a home. A job, a side business, a study commitment, a domain of personal admin: each one gets a folder, and everything belonging to it lives there.
The standard shape
Every area is Areas/<AreaName>/ with two files inside it.
<AreaName>.md is the entity file, and it works as the landing page. Reading it tells you where that work stream is up to without opening anything else.
CLAUDE.md is the working context. It is short, under about twenty five lines, and it tells your assistant who and what this area is, what the current focus is, and where to look for depth. Your assistant reads it whenever it works in that area.
That is the whole default. Two files, no scaffolding you have to fill in.
Adding rooms when you need them
Some areas grow parts. Add them when the work asks for it, not before.
Meetings/ holds individual meeting notes when an area has recurring meetings worth logging separately. Documents/ holds the binaries: PDFs, spreadsheets, decks, scans.
Nesting, by example
Some areas contain several distinct things that each deserve their own file. When that happens, the area gets one subfolder for them, and each thing follows the same shape an area does.
A consulting practice has Clients/, one folder per client. A degree has Subjects/, one folder per subject. A creative practice has Projects/, one folder per project. A property portfolio might have Properties/.
Clients are one example, not the shape. The pattern is the same every time: a folder, a landing page, a short context file, and rooms added only when there is something to put in them.
Areas are cheap to change
You will get them wrong at first. That is expected and it does not matter.
Ask your assistant to rename an area, merge two that turned out to be one thing, or split one that turned out to be two. It moves the files and fixes the links between them. You do not do file surgery.
How yours get made
During setup your assistant creates a rough first pass from your one line about what you do. Later in the onboarding, once it has interviewed you properly, it reviews that first pass with you and lands on two to four areas that match your real life.
Two to four is the useful range early on. More than that on day one usually means you are describing projects, and projects belong inside an area rather than beside it.
Next: Your assistant. Or see what ships in the kit.