Daily Workflow

The Cycle

1. Find sources — articles, PDFs, YouTube videos, tweets, gists
2. Clip / save — Obsidian Web Clipper or drop files into raw/
3. Ingest — /ingest source --vault name → Claude creates wiki pages
4. Browse — open Obsidian, graph view, follow backlinks
5. Query — /query "question" → synthesized answers with citations
6. Lint — /lint → health-check, fix issues
7. Repeat — every source and question makes the wiki richer

What You Do

• Curate sources — find articles, papers, videos worth reading
• Clip and collect — save sources into raw/ via Web Clipper or file drops
• Direct the analysis — ask good questions, guide what to emphasize
• Browse and think — read the wiki in Obsidian, follow connections
• Decide what’s important — you’re the editor-in-chief

What Claude Does

• Extract and summarize — reads sources, pulls out key information
• Create wiki pages — source-notes, entity pages, concept pages
• Cross-reference — maintains wikilinks between pages
• Keep the wiki current — updates index, logs activity, flags contradictions
• Synthesize answers — pulls from multiple pages for complex questions
• Maintain quality — lint checks, suggests gaps, recommends new sources

Tips

• Ingest one source at a time and stay involved — read the summaries, check updates, guide emphasis (Karpathy’s recommendation)
• File good query answers back into the wiki with --save — explorations should compound
• Run lint periodically — especially after batch-ingesting multiple sources
• Use domain tags from day one — shared entities across vaults become the most valuable nodes
• The wiki is just a git repo — version history, branching, and rollback for free

Graduating Knowledge

When finishing a project:

/promote my-project --to meta

Claude reads the project vault, identifies reusable learnings (tech patterns, strategy, vendor evaluations), and files them into your meta vault. Project-specific details stay behind.