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Where Your AI Prompts Really Go: A Practical Guide to AI Privacy

Most people send sensitive prompts to AI tools without knowing where that data ends up. Here's what really happens, why the rules differ wildly per tier, and what to pay attention to.

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4 Years, 20K Notes, and AI Agents: The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 Is Almost Here

The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is coming. AI handles the plumbing; you do the thinking. Full AI-enabled Knowledge Management with hundreds of skills, dozens of agents, a CLI, an MCP server, and more. Lock in the current price before it goes up.

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Why Your AI Skills Break on Other Machines

Your AI skill works perfectly on your machine, then falls apart for everyone else. Here are the twelve portability traps that break AI skills the moment they leave your environment, and exactly how to fix every single one of them.

I Built a Graph Explorer for Obsidian Bases. Here's Why LLM Wikis Need a Visual Layer

I built Graph Explorer Base View to solve a real problem: LLM Wikis generate tons of interconnected notes, but without a visual layer, you can't see clusters, gaps, or what still needs review.

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Slopsquatting, Typosquatting, and the New Software Supply Chain Attacks: How AI and Vibe Coding Are Making Package Registries Even More Dangerous

AI coding tools hallucinate fake package names. Attackers register them. You install malware. Here's how slopsquatting works and what you can do about it.

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I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Convert Handwritten Notes to Markdown

Point any image in your Obsidian vault at a local AI model and get structured Markdown back. Headings, lists, quotes, even Mermaid diagrams. No data leaves your machine.

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Analog Reading, Digital Knowledge: The Full Pipeline From Paper Notes to AI Skills

I read books on paper, take handwritten notes, and turn them into connected atomic notes and AI skills. Here's the full pipeline, and the thinking behind each step.

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I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Sync My reMarkable Notes 📝

An Obsidian plugin that imports everything from your reMarkable tablet

Your AI Doesn't Know You: Why PKM Is the Missing Foundation for AI Agents

Most AI agents are flying blind. They have no memory, no context, and no idea who you are. Here's why your knowledge base is the missing piece.

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How I Manage All My Tasks Inside Obsidian with the TaskNotes Plugin

I just published a new YouTube video showing how I manage ALL my tasks inside Obsidian using the TaskNotes plugin. No separate app. No context switching. Everything connected.

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Collective Intelligence and PKM: Why Your Notes Are Smarter Than You Think

What do ant colonies, Wikipedia, and your personal knowledge graph have in common? More than you'd expect. Your notes are a collective intelligence system — and when you compose them as context for AI, they become something far more powerful.

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Never Lose a Note Again — Time Machine Plugin for Obsidian

Obsidian has a built-in File Recovery plugin, but it's pretty basic. I built the Time Machine plugin to fix that. Here's what it does and why you'll want it.