Research note

(add to the syllabus. documentation is automation)

cf. The idea of Commonplace book.

Keeping the record of ideas, what happened during the meeting, and so on, can also work as a safety net for you.

Dispute on where the idea originates from. Dispute about how one says one vs. the other. The more record you have, the better.

it’s a good practice for other reasons as well.

• you may not lose good ideas.
• …
• can be used for LLMs as contexts

Why markdown documents and obsidian?

Notion. not really perfectly portable.

simplest. Atwood’s law. Markdown became the standard for interfacing with LLMs due to it’s minimal nature. the great common denominator.

Yyiki design principles.

Easy to use git.

obsidian is probably the best interface. Super easy naviation, super easy manipulation of page titles (automatic backlink updates). attachments function, etc. (plug in foliate package)

Obsidian’s support for daily notes and templates

set the folder.

set the filename format.

command + p.

using templates.