Building AI Knowledge Bases That Actually Work with Claude

Every time you start a new conversation with Claude, it starts completely fresh. No memory of last week, no knowledge of your workflows, no context unless you provide it. In this post, I walk through how to build a structured personal knowledge base that Claude can actually use: the right file formats, how to organise your folders, how to write documents Claude can navigate quickly, and how to connect everything through Google Drive so Claude searches it automatically.