Sensory Notebook

An open, running notebook about sensory sensitivity — half research, half lived experience.

I ask questions about how sensory processing works and what the evidence actually supports; Claude writes longform, sourced answers; the pairs accumulate here in the open. Alongside that sit my own notes — my sensory profile, how I came to understand it, and the specific things that have and haven't worked for me over the years.

The two halves are deliberately kept apart. Anything presented as a finding cites a source. Anything presented as a recommendation is one person's experience, reported as such, with the failure modes included.

Not medical advice. I'm not a clinician. This is a personal notebook published in case it's useful to someone else navigating the same thing. Sensory terminology is genuinely contested across DSM-5-TR, ICD-11 and the occupational-therapy literature, and where that's true I try to say so rather than pick a side quietly.

Layout

Path	What's in it
questions/	One file per question asked, YYMMDD-<slug>.md
answers/	The longform response to each, same slug
recommendations/	Things I've actually tried, with a verdict and what they didn't fix
context/	profile.md — my sensory profile; story.md — how I got here; scope.md — what this notebook covers
sources/	Logged sources referenced from answers
outputs/	Consolidated exports and PDFs
notes/	Scratch thinking, not part of exports

How it's built

Scaffolded from the general-research-workspace variant of the research-space plugin, which provides the Q&A logging convention and the consolidation-to-PDF workflow. The recommendations/ folder and the research/experience separation are specific to this notebook.

Status

Just started — August 2026. Questions and recommendations accrue over time rather than arriving as a finished document.