Bunch: free, open software for continuity across memory gaps

I have spent years trying to accommodate a practical problem created by dissociative amnesia while maintaining a demanding professional career. Earlier tools helped me track who was fronting, but they were much better at looking inward than helping me recover what had happened in the outside world.

I needed a way to restore working context quickly enough that memory gaps did not become missed decisions, repeated conversations, or degraded judgment at work.

I experimented first with community tools like PluralKit and Simply Plural, then began building small applications against their APIs. That process taught me both API integration and the limits of identity tracking alone. Later, while working deeply with AI context management, I reframed the problem: the interface was not the important part. Continuity of context was. I began building Bunch as an accessibility harness designed around that idea.

During one weekend, another alter was continuously fronting and I had little usable memory of what had happened. Instead of spending roughly 20 minutes asking people and reconstructing events manually, Bunch gave me a summary of everything I had worked on since I was last present in about 15 seconds.

That changed the problem from “How do I keep track of who I am?” to “How do I make sure the next version of me can keep going?”