Open Brane Annotated: 8 Columns, 80-Line Write Path, One SQLite File

Yesterday I open-sourced Open Brane — a personal event-log brain with one SQLite table, one write path, and an MCP server agents can query. This post walks through how it works. If you haven't read the first post, the short version: every source you care about gets normalized into one append-only table. That table is the source of truth. Every downstream view — Obsidian pages, vector search, compiled journals, dashboards — is rebuilt from it. Agents hit a local MCP server, never the database dir