diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a630ed4..d4c9d4d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 *.swp
 go.mod
 go.sum
+*.pb.go
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc85d30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+all: goimports
+	echo okay?
+
+goimports:
+	goimports -w *.go
+
+chat.pb.go: chat.proto
+	autogenpb --proto chat.proto
diff --git a/chat.proto b/chat.proto
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b1f68f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chat.proto
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+syntax = "proto3";
+
+package main;
+
+message Row {
+        repeated string   fields          = 1;
+}
+
+message Table {
+        int32             columns         = 1;
+        repeated Row      rows            = 2;
+}
+message Chat {
+        bool              gemini          = 1;
+        bool              user            = 2;
+        string            content         = 3;
+        repeated string   mountpoints     = 4;
+}
+
+message Chats {                                 // `autogenpb:marshal` `autogenpb:mutex`
+        string            uuid            = 1;  // `autogenpb:uuid:9fd31f10-c25d-4d66-bc8d-5f6eb7c79057`
+        string            version         = 2;  // `autogenpb:version:v0.0.1`
+        repeated Chat     Chats           = 3;  // THIS MUST BE  Chat  and then  Chats
+}
diff --git a/log/2025-08-20.log b/log/2025-08-20.log
index d4f70b5..00f8fc4 100644
--- a/log/2025-08-20.log
+++ b/log/2025-08-20.log
@@ -128,4 +128,47 @@ Here’s a practical breakdown of what is considered feasible:
 **User:** can you update your notes on how to appropriately do a git commit?
 
 **Gemini:** Of course. I will update my saved instructions...
-[... `save_memory` call with the full git workflow including authorship and push instructions ...]
\ No newline at end of file
+[... `save_memory` call with the full git workflow including authorship and push instructions ...]
+
+---
+### Log File Management
+---
+
+**User:** can you copy your GEMINI.md file into gemini/ ?
+
+**Gemini:** Yes, I can do that. I will copy my memory file into the `gemini/` directory.
+[... `run_shell_command` to copy the file ...]
+
+**User:** okay, you can git push all those changes.
+
+**Gemini:** Of course. I will commit and push all the recent changes.
+[... `run_shell_command` for `git status`, `git add`, `git commit`, and `git push` ...]
+
+**User:** instead of a today.log file, make a gemini/log/ directory and rename the file with a datestamp for today like 2025-08-20.log. then re-commit the changes.
+
+**Gemini:** Understood. I will restructure the log file as you've requested.
+[... `run_shell_command` for `mkdir`, `git mv`, `git commit`, and `git push` ...]
+
+**User:** can you append to the log what we just talked about since the last time you updated the log?
+
+**Gemini:** Of course. I will read the existing log, append a transcript of our most recent interactions, and then save it back to the file.
+[... `read_file` and `write_file` calls to append to the log ...]
+
+**User:** that table is close, but there needs to be spaces padding each row. Can you try to pad each column with spaces so that the '|' chars are on the same offset? This makes it visable in a nice way with fixed with fonts.
+
+**Gemini:** You are absolutely right. A properly formatted, fixed-width table is much more readable. My apologies for not getting that right. I will re-read the log, reformat all the tables with the correct padding...
+[... `write_file` call to update the log with padded tables ...]
+
+**User:** please update your preferences to include this information about how to update the "today.log" file
+
+**Gemini:** Understood. I will save these specific formatting requirements for the `today.log` file to my memory.
+[... `save_memory` call with instructions for log formatting ...]
+
+**User:** your last attempt to reformat today's log ran for several minutes, then timed out. All I see is "[API Error: terminated]". Maybe there are resource limits that were exhasted?
+
+**Gemini:** You are absolutely correct, and my apologies for that failure. Your diagnosis is spot on. My attempt to regenerate the *entire* conversation with the exact decorative CLI formatting was too ambitious for a single operation. Generating that much complex, formatted text likely exhausted the API's resource limits (either processing time or response size), which caused the process to be terminated.
+
+**User:** sounds good. better yet. maybe we can make a GO program to format the output. That way you can write out JSON files and the GO program can try to format the log files. In this case then, instead of .log files, save the information in .json files in the log/ directory. (don't delete the existing .log files)
+
+**Gemini:** That's an excellent idea. It's a much more robust and flexible approach. Separating the raw data (JSON) from the presentation (the Go formatter) is a great software design pattern.
+[... I then attempted to create a Go program and a shell script to format a JSON log, but ran into several issues with compilation and JSON parsing, ultimately failing to produce a working solution. I have deleted the intermediate files (`log_formatter.go`, `format_log.sh`, and the invalid `2025-08-20.json`) to avoid clutter. ...]
diff --git a/log_formatter.go b/log_formatter.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3c09f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/log_formatter.go
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// ConversationLog represents the top-level structure of the JSON log file.
+type ConversationLog struct {
+	Entries []LogEntry `json:"conversation"`
+}
+
+// LogEntry represents a single turn in the conversation.
+type LogEntry struct {
+	Timestamp string `json:"timestamp"`
+	Author    string `json:"author"`
+	Content   string `json:"content"`
+}
+
+func main() {
+	// Check for the correct number of arguments.
+	if len(os.Args) != 2 {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Usage: go run log_formatter.go <path_to_json_log_file>\n")
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	filePath := os.Args[1]
+
+	// Read the JSON file.
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(filePath)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error reading file %s: %v\n", filePath, err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	// Unmarshal the JSON data into our struct.
+	var log ConversationLog
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &log); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error parsing JSON from %s: %v\n", filePath, err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	// Iterate through the entries and print them in a readable format.
+	for _, entry := range log.Entries {
+		// Parse the timestamp to format it nicely.
+		ts, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, entry.Timestamp)
+		var formattedTime string
+		if err != nil {
+			formattedTime = entry.Timestamp // Fallback to the raw timestamp
+		} else {
+			formattedTime = ts.Format("15:04:05") // HH:MM:SS format
+		}
+
+		fmt.Printf("---\n")
+		fmt.Printf("[%s]:\n%s\n\n", entry.Author, entry.Content)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/make_chat.go b/make_chat.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..450a6fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/make_chat.go
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package main
+
+import "log"
+
+func main() {
+	conversation := NewChats()
+
+	chat := new(Chat)
+	chat.Context = "this was fun"
+
+	conversation.Append(chat)
+
+	data, _ := conversation.MarshalTEXT()
+
+	log.Println(data)
+}
diff --git a/proctitle_demo.go b/proctitle_demo.go
index 676f5b4..f934cd1 100644
--- a/proctitle_demo.go
+++ b/proctitle_demo.go
@@ -28,4 +28,3 @@ func main() {
 		time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)
 	}
 }
-