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  Overview – Project Workspace

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  Capture – Add a breadcrumb

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  Story – Story so far

Breadcrumb — What happened here, and why?

Breadcrumb is a focused project-memory app for getting back into work.

When you return to a project after time away, join midway through, or simply lose track of why something was done, Breadcrumb helps you recover the context:

• What happened?
• What did I miss?
• Why did we make that decision?
• What changed?
• What was I working on?
• What still needs attention?

Instead of asking people to dig through every task, message, document, and commit, Breadcrumb preserves the small number of moments that actually changed a project’s direction.

What it does

Breadcrumb records consequential project moments as structured entries called breadcrumbs:

• Decisions
• Changes
• Experiments
• Discoveries
• Milestones

Each breadcrumb captures:

• What happened
• Why it happened or why it mattered
• The outcome
• Supporting evidence
• An optional connection to the earlier breadcrumb that prompted it

The app then provides two ways to catch up:

• History — a chronological record of meaningful project moments
• Story so far — a locally derived, citation-linked account of how the project reached its current state, including explicitly incomplete threads

Every Story citation links back to its supporting breadcrumb, so the narrative remains explainable rather than becoming an unsupported summary.

Inspiration

Projects accumulate activity quickly, but they often lose context even faster.

After a few days away, it is easy to open a workspace and see a changed implementation, a revised goal, or an unfamiliar decision—without knowing what triggered it. The answer may be buried across messages, commits, notes, documents, or someone’s memory.

We wanted to create a calmer alternative to “read everything you missed.”

Breadcrumb focuses on the questions a returning teammate actually asks:

“What happened here?”
“Why did we do this?”
“What changed while I was away?”
“What should I understand before I continue?”

The goal is not to replace task management. It is to preserve the project’s memory.

How it works

Breadcrumb follows a simple flow:

Evidence → Human judgement → Breadcrumb → History → Story

Built With

• github
• postgresql
• react
• supabase
• tailwind-css
• typescript
• vercel
• vite