diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index f493225..59f4675 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import config from './config.json' assert {type: "json"};
 import { MatrixClient, SimpleFsStorageProvider, AutojoinRoomsMixin } from "matrix-bot-sdk";
+import fs from "fs";
 
 const storage = new SimpleFsStorageProvider("storage.json");
 const client = new MatrixClient(config.baseUrl, config.token, storage);
@@ -7,7 +8,20 @@ const client = new MatrixClient(config.baseUrl, config.token, storage);
 AutojoinRoomsMixin.setupOnClient(client)
 client.start().then(() => console.log(`Client has started!`));
 
+let messageCounter = 0;
+
+// ? event listener: logs messages sent into file
 client.on("room.message", (roomId, event) => {
-    if (! event["content"] || event["sender"] === config.userId) return;
-        // code here
-})
+    if (!event["content"] || event["sender"] === config.userId) return;
+    messageCounter = messageCounter + 1;
+    fs.appendFile('training-matrix.txt', event["content"]["body"] + "\n", function (err) {
+        if (err) throw err;
+        console.log(messageCounter + "\t" + event["content"]["body"]);
+    });
+
+    // ? send message every N messages using the training data
+    if (messageCounter % 7) {
+        client.sendText(roomId, "Hello, World!"); // TODO: exec py function to gen message str 
+    };
+});
+