How Hermes Agent fixed my procrastination

I used to have great ideas at the worst possible times. On a walk, in the shower, mid-meeting. Almost none of them ever got finished.

What I tried before

Notebooks. Field Notes. Eventually a full Obsidian second brain, meticulously set up and almost immediately abandoned.

The problem was never capture, it was retrieval. Starting small works when you can find the thing you started. A system that records everything and surfaces nothing is just a more organised way to forget.

I tried OpenClaw (formerly Claude-bot) too, and it never stuck for the same underlying reason: no memory. Every conversation started from zero. Explaining the context of an idea took longer than having the idea did.

Why Hermes was different

Hermes remembers. Conversations from weeks ago are still there. It indexed years of my own journal entries, so it can pull up ideas I’d completely forgotten I’d had.

That’s the whole difference. Not smarter responses, just continuity.

This channel exists because of that.

In this video

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:30 Procrastinating on random ideas
• 1:26 Who I am (Sam Beckham, GitLab)
• 2:35 Why I’m making this video
• 3:35 What I tried before Hermes (notebooks, Obsidian, OpenClaw)
• 5:52 Finding Hermes
• 6:40 How this channel got made
• 8:02 What’s next