Building an LLM Knowledge Base on Personal Notes: A Hands-On Approach

Published on 21.04.2026

AI & AGENTS

Karpathy Named It. I Built One on My Notes.

TLDR: Andrej Karpathy coined the term "LLM Knowledge Base" for building deep research agents on personal data. This developer created a three-skill system using Obsidian, Readwise, and NotebookLM to query private notes, highlights, and research transcripts, producing grounded articles instead of generic web searches.

Karpathy Named It. I Built One on My Notes.

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