pm-workspace-template

Turn VS Code + GitHub Copilot into your personal PM knowledge base — with persistent memory across sessions, automatic routing, and structured indexing.

Built for the AI for PMs workshop. No prior experience with Copilot or knowledge management required.

The Problem This Solves

ChatGPT and Gemini forget everything between conversations. You end up re-explaining your projects, re-pasting context, and getting generic answers.

This template gives Copilot a folder it can read as its memory. Every meeting note, decision, and task you save becomes part of its context — permanently.

What this fixes: re-explaining context every chat, losing action items between meetings, forgotten decisions resurfacing as surprises, context scattered across five tools, generic AI output that ignores your actual projects.

Why not Gemini / Gems / NotebookLM? Chat forgets. Gems have static context that goes stale. NotebookLM is read-only analysis in isolated notebooks. This tool grows automatically, tracks tasks, connects projects, and you own the files. Full comparison ↓

A note on data privacy

The markdown files live on your machine — no automatic cloud sync or third-party file storage. However, Copilot is a cloud service. When you use @workspace, VS Code sends relevant snippets from your local files to GitHub's servers as part of the inference request. The same rules apply as for any Copilot Chat message: