Pkm

8 practitioners working with Pkm:

claude code + obsidian workflow connecting your personal knowledge management to your AI coding agent. obsidian vaults as context, claude code as engine.

digital gardens are graveyards without a gardener digital gardens were beautiful, ambitious, and almost always abandoned. AI can be the gardener — but only if it knows what to cultivate. that requires identity, not just content.

every PKM framework is wrong PARA, Zettelkasten, GTD, Bullet Journal — what each gets right, where each breaks, and the one thing none of them include: you.

Personal Search Tools Build semantic search over your notes with embeddings, vector stores, and local-first tools. Complete tooling comparison.

the routing layer: what comes after the second brain storage is solved. retrieval is solved. the unsolved problem is routing — matching who you are in this moment to what approach serves you. this is the thesis.

Vector Databases for Personal RAG Compare Chroma, Qdrant, pgvector, and Pinecone for your personal knowledge system. Local-first options, setup guides, and honest costs.

what Tiago Forte got right (and what AI breaks) a generous analysis of Building a Second Brain. what CODE and PARA contributed to how we think about knowledge — and where AI changes the equation entirely.

why your second brain is dead the storage-first PKM paradigm was built for a pre-AI world. the bottleneck moved from finding to routing. what you need isn't a second brain — it's a first self.