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Knowii Voice AI 0.7.0 is out, and it makes voice typing rock-solid on Linux. Reliable global shortcuts on GNOME, KDE, and Hyprland, correct keyboard layouts on Wayland, GPU acceleration out of the box, plus quality-of-life improvements for every platform.
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A Base isn't a spreadsheet you fill in. It's a lens you point at notes you already have, and it's only as sharp as the properties underneath. Here's how I run live dashboards over 20,000 notes.
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A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!
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A 5-step recipe for turning any repeatable process into a reusable AI agent skill. Do, Codify, Run, Iterate, Skillify. The first four come from Evelyn Chapman. The fifth is what turns a process note into actual automation.
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After 4 years of building, Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is out and it's fully AI-enabled. Receptionist routing, dozens of specialized agents, hundreds of AI skills, LLM Wikis, the new Graph Explorer plugin, and an identity system that teaches AI who you are.
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Four weeks of intense shipping; OSK v4 went live on May 15th as a fully AI-native release. Eight new AI agents, a complete tutorial library, the Book Exporter plugin, five articles published, a new YouTube video on AI context management, the Obsidian Community site launch, sales records,…
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The standard 'keep AI away from your vault' advice solves the wrong problem. AI doesn't belong outside your knowledge base; it belongs inside, in charge of the plumbing while you stay in charge of the thinking. Here's the mindset and the structure that make that work.
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A 15-minute setup that wires Claude Code to GitHub Copilot's backend through a local LiteLLM proxy. No Anthropic plan needed.
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Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is out. Hundreds of AI skills, dozens of agents, persistent memory, LLM Wikis, a CLI, an MCP server, and a brand-new plugin that powers it all.
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Heavy specialized AI agents are an anti-pattern. Fewer agents with deep skill libraries beat them on every axis that matters: cognitive load, flexibility, context budget, determinism, and maintenance
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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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Three weeks of shipping: 3 open-source AI Skills (Garmin, arXiv, Scholar); two new Obsidian plugins (Hidden Folders, Graph Explorer); the OSK v4 runway; a News Flash page on my blog; updated Knowii pricing; and the Kimi K2.6 + Qwen + Gemma 4 local AI wave.
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