Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

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Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...

What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?

As somebody who writes a lot, I've always been interested in personal knowledge management systems and note-taking apps. But what do these frameworks and m…

Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)

Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…

Double processing information for notes : Garden of Learning by Juhis

As I read discussions about note-taking and learning, I often run into complaints about how much time and effort it takes to make and maintain notes and how people wish they could end ...

Notes Against Note-Taking Systems

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Brett Scott (@brettscott)

Marshall McLuhan is famous for his observation that the form of a communication technology can shape our mind and society The age of the printed book, for example, carried with it a particular way of being. Regardless of the differing content of different books, all books required a particular mindset in which a thread is followed from the beginning to the end through an arc I feel the age of social media is like the age of a ripped up book, as if we were surrounded by torn shards and shreds of paper floating like confetti around us. We grab for them, hoping for some tiny insight, but not having any way of knowing where it fits in the overarching narrative This note is one such shard. You can toss it away now

“Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”

Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } . The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of journal should I use?”, “how can I make it easy to capture snippets of things I read?”, etc.

Karpathy's LLM Knowledge Base Wiki for Enterprise | Vijoy Pandey posted on the topic | LinkedIn

There's a new kind of computer media in the enterprise: Write once, Read never. The docs are perpetually stale, constantly diverging from reality, and scattered across Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub, Webex (or Slack) threads, Notion, Obsidian - and in my personal life, add Apple Notes, Goodnotes, web clippings, and multiple Google Drives worth of docs and slides that nobody is ever going back to. Karpathy tweeted his LLM knowledge base wiki architecture which went viral last weekend and I decided to give it a run yesterday. Verdict: You *have* to try this out. Prediction: You won’t be able to live without it soon. There were a few mods and decisions I made to the base Karpathy provided. First, the vault / folder structure in Obsidian. I already use Obsidian as a human. Instead of creating separate vaults and dealing with the sync nightmare, I just have folders for Human and Agent, and a Raw folder. (1) The Human/ folder is where I write long form articles and notes independent of the knowledge base wiki. No LLM or agent touches this folder. (2) I do have Arnold Layne, my OpenClaw agent, doing background tasks for me. Raw/ is where both Arnold and I, dump raw snippets. Inclusive of diverse kinds of media. (3) The Agent/ folder is where the LLM (Claude in my case) synthesizes the wiki. No human touches this folder. Second, some customizations to CLAUDE.md for enterprise-like usage - (4) Domain extensions - the agent needs to know that quantum computing and agentic AI have different entity types and different provenance thresholds.  (5) Primary source protection, when I drop in my own original work, secondary sources can extend it or raise questions against it, but they cannot overwrite it. It sounds like a small thing but its’s not, especially at enterprise scale where provenance actually matters. Karpathy is upfront that what he’s built is working memory for a single agent, and it’s truly remarkable at that. The jump to Shared Context across teams, reconciling conflicting beliefs at org scale, ontologies that don’t collapse under the weight of a hundred contributors - those are much harder problems and what we are exploring with the Internet of Cognition. PS: The screenshot shows my Obsidian vault after just two runs: one with Karpathy’s original tweet and gist file itself (so meta!) and one with our Internet of Cognition paper. Claude (Sonnet) read it, compiled it into structured summaries, entity pages, concept pages, backlinks, merged all the information cohesively, and keeps it all maintained from there. You just read the Wiki. It’s simply magical.

Sharing news you didn't read can feel like expertise

Social media sharers believe that they are knowledgeable about the content they share, even if they have not read it or have only glanced at a headline.

I Built a Knowledge Base That Writes Itself. Here Is What Andrej Karpathy Got Right.

Andrej Karpathy posted about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases. I took his workflow, wired it into my Obsidian vault with Claude Code, and within an hour had 21 cross-linked wiki articles compiled from YouTube transcripts. Here is how it works and why it matters.

Is the article dead?

Personalization is coming to journalism. The question is: who controls it?

Interdependent Thoughts

Bookmarked Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? by Ted Chiang in the New Yorker

elvis on Twitter / X

Building a personal knowledge base for my agents is increasingly where I spend my time these days. Like @karpathy, I also use Obsidian for my MD vaults. What's different in my approach is that I curate research papers on a daily basis and have actually tuned a Skill for… https://t.co/4AQSFOv4PV pic.twitter.com/YI5cWUhqT3— elvis (@omarsar0) April 2, 2026