Building a Personal Wiki That Thinks Across Your Notes

Published on 17.04.2026

AI & AGENTS

How I Took Karpathy's LLM Wiki and Built an AI-Powered Second Brain in Obsidian

TLDR: The core idea is refreshing because it drops the fantasy that humans will manually maintain beautiful note networks forever. Instead, the LLM does the cross-linking, synthesis, and upkeep while Obsidian acts as the local interface and storage layer.

How I Took Karpathy's LLM Wiki and Built an AI-Powered Second Brain in Obsidian