A practical newsletter on personal knowledge management, covering how to use notes apps like Obsidian well, avoid collecting without processing, and reflect on priorities through structured personal retreats. Readers get workflow advice and a reflective framework for focusing on what matters.
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First-person lab notes from an engineer building a Markdown-based, git-versioned memory system for AI agents, covering installer design, hardening with weak models, and sync failures. Readers get candid, reproducible engineering lessons on making agent setups portable and robust.
Sébastien Dubois shares release notes for his Obsidian plugins, original models for personal knowledge management, and commentary on tools affecting Markdown-based note-taking. Readers get practical details on features, workflows and the reasoning behind them.
A personal blog documenting the author's personal knowledge management (PKM) system in Obsidian, including a controlled vocabulary of PKM terms and an AI-assisted diabetes coaching project. Posts walk through architecture, tooling, and lessons learned with concrete implementation detail.
Practical tutorials and essays on building a local-first, AI-assisted personal knowledge system around Obsidian, with handwritten capture and on-device models. It also covers how to use AI without eroding one's own judgement and reasoning.
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