Over the last couple of years, AI tools have slowly become part of how I work, learn, troubleshoot, and organise information. I have written before about using tools like ChatGPT, Codex, Perplexity, NotebookLM, and local models with Ollama, but Hermes Agent feels slightly different. Rather than being another chat interface, Hermes Agent is closer to a personal operating layer. It can communicate through Telegram, use tools, remember useful preferences, work with files, search previous conversations, and help route different types of work into the right context.

For the last few years, Craft has been my main place for personal knowledge management. I have rated it highly for a long time, and I still think it is an excellent tool. It helped me build a proper documentation habit, organise my technical notes, and keep a useful personal knowledge base that I could rely on. But over time, the way I used Craft started to change. I was still using it regularly, but I was using fewer of the features that originally made it so appealing. My notes were becoming more about durable knowledge: technical references, project notes, personal documentation, snippets, workflows, and things I wanted to be able to search, edit, automate, and reuse over time.

I’ve always liked finding useful apps, command line tools, and resources. Some are things I use every day, while others are more situational, but still worth remembering and sharing when the right moment comes up. For a while, I kept that list in Craft as a simple table. That worked well enough at the start. Craft is still where a lot of my knowledge lives, and it is excellent for notes, documents, and personal knowledge management.

I was casually browsing the gallery on my AI Art Hub app, on my iPhone when I noticed something slightly off. Whenever I tapped on an image to enlarge it, the image wasn’t properly centred on screen. It wasn’t a critical issue. Just one of those small UI details that immediately stands out once you notice it. Normally, this would have meant waiting until I was back at my desk with my Mac nearby. Instead, I decided to try fixing it entirely from my phone using Codex inside the ChatGPT iPhone app.

For a long time, my personal website was something I had online, but not something I felt fully in control of. It was hosted with a web hosting company, which worked well enough on the surface. The site loaded, the domain pointed to it, and it did the basic job of giving me a small presence online. But over time, the limitations started to bother me. I did not have the level of control I wanted over the source files. Making changes felt more awkward than it needed to be. I also had limited visibility over useful metrics and the way the site was actually being served. On top of that, I was paying an annual hosting fee for something that had become quite a simple personal site.