Glean's "context graph" framework for corporate information handling has really got me thinking about how to level up my personal knowledge management game.
I’m actively avoiding using ‘AI’ tools, but still found this post interesting.
Apart from in metadata, search history, etc, much of my ‘how did I get here?’ data will be recorded in an unstructured way in my (electronic) work Journal, where I record my current thinking, what I plan to do about it, and the immediate outcomes. Other people’s might be found in their ‘Daily Notes’.
I never read through my past Journal entries, as I use them for ‘thinking out loud’ to myself to overcome current issues, but perhaps I should be reviewing them occasionally. (That said, I can’t imagine anything more off-putting than reading a historical litany of seldom-met good intentions!)
over the last year or so i have done some extensive work with claude for my ttrpg gamemaster and player notes. most recently i had it create a skill that reads my last player session note and from that creates new atomic notes either from deadlinks i created or from inferred meaning. It has a copy of my live vault and compares existing notes and determines if there is a need for updating or creating something new. I gave it no real instructions about what to do, but it puts in a header of the session number and writes a small recap from that session in the respective note (npc, location, item, lore, faction) and it puts in links to other notes that mentions the note and updates meta data. It even created new meta data for me that fit the vaults structure. As a player that saves me time, i dont have to go through my session notes creating new notes from all my deadlinks and fill out templates etc.. So i have actually found something where AI gives me less work to do :) but i think its akin to innovation. You need an idea and you need to iterate through it to get anywhere. Much like other automatisation, it takes alot of work to set it up just right, but when you get out on the other side of that, thats where it begins helping. The "setup" is iterating through ideas and instructions to see what works and how until you distill the correct process for that specific idea.
Iteration is _absolutely_ a key part of making all this stuff actually work and be useful. One of the nice things about LLMs is that they make the iteration loop tighter, actually.
I’m actively avoiding using ‘AI’ tools, but still found this post interesting.
Apart from in metadata, search history, etc, much of my ‘how did I get here?’ data will be recorded in an unstructured way in my (electronic) work Journal, where I record my current thinking, what I plan to do about it, and the immediate outcomes. Other people’s might be found in their ‘Daily Notes’.
I never read through my past Journal entries, as I use them for ‘thinking out loud’ to myself to overcome current issues, but perhaps I should be reviewing them occasionally. (That said, I can’t imagine anything more off-putting than reading a historical litany of seldom-met good intentions!)
over the last year or so i have done some extensive work with claude for my ttrpg gamemaster and player notes. most recently i had it create a skill that reads my last player session note and from that creates new atomic notes either from deadlinks i created or from inferred meaning. It has a copy of my live vault and compares existing notes and determines if there is a need for updating or creating something new. I gave it no real instructions about what to do, but it puts in a header of the session number and writes a small recap from that session in the respective note (npc, location, item, lore, faction) and it puts in links to other notes that mentions the note and updates meta data. It even created new meta data for me that fit the vaults structure. As a player that saves me time, i dont have to go through my session notes creating new notes from all my deadlinks and fill out templates etc.. So i have actually found something where AI gives me less work to do :) but i think its akin to innovation. You need an idea and you need to iterate through it to get anywhere. Much like other automatisation, it takes alot of work to set it up just right, but when you get out on the other side of that, thats where it begins helping. The "setup" is iterating through ideas and instructions to see what works and how until you distill the correct process for that specific idea.
Iteration is _absolutely_ a key part of making all this stuff actually work and be useful. One of the nice things about LLMs is that they make the iteration loop tighter, actually.