Personal projects

Plan a trip, a move, a project.

Most of what people do with AI isn’t work — it’s the practical stuff of a life. Planning a trip, sorting out a move, getting a renovation underway, learning something new. None of it is one conversation. It stretches over weeks, and the details keep changing under you.

Plans change. Chats don’t.

A plan is a moving target. Dates shift. The budget tightens. You settle the flights but not the hotel. A quote comes back higher than you hoped. You work it all out with AI in pieces — a session here, a quick question there.

But each chat is a snapshot of one moment. A week later the numbers are stale, the decision you made is buried three conversations back, and you can’t remember what was still unsettled. So you start again from the top, re-explaining the whole thing just to move one piece forward.

What Giraffe keeps

Giraffe holds the live state of the plan — the dates, the budget, the decisions you’ve made, and what’s still open — in one project you keep current as things change. When something’s settled, you save it. When something changes, you update it: “Update the budget — hotels came in at $1,050.”

Open the project any time to see where the whole thing stands, without scrolling back through chats. Most days you just read it. When you want a hand with the next piece, you continue in an AI with the plan already in front of it — no re-explaining. Here is how Giraffe works.

Two weeks in Japan, kept current

Say you’re planning two weeks in Japan in spring. You’ve been at it on and off for a month — a session on the route, another on whether the rail pass is worth it, a late one comparing neighborhoods to stay in. Your trip project holds it all in one place:

Three weeks later, when a hotel deal appears or your dates wobble, you don’t rebuild the picture from memory. You open the project, see the budget and what’s still open, change the one thing that moved, and — if you want help comparing options — continue in an AI with the whole trip already laid out.

The same for a move, or anything with moving parts

A move has a date, a budget, a dozen half-made decisions and a long tail of open questions — which movers, what to sell, when to switch the utilities. A renovation is quotes and trade-offs that shift for months. Learning something is a running sense of what you’ve understood and what’s next.

Giraffe keeps each of them current, so the plan lives in one place instead of scattered across the chats that built it. When a project is really about weighing options and gathering facts, it shades into keeping the research behind a decision — the same project, holding whatever matters most that week.