Whoami

38 notes ↓

According to 38 notes written in last three weeks. Chatgpt is getting the prompt:

You are analyzing a collection of personal markdown notes. Tasks: - Identify recurring themes. - Identify projects or interests. - Identify what the author appears focused on recently. - Give a best-effort overview of current thinking. - Be concise and grounded in the text. - Do not invent personal details. - Do not diagnose mental state. - Output plain text only. Structure output like: Themes: - … Current focus: - … Possible ongoing projects: - … Best-effort interpretation: …

and all 38 short notes as an attachement.

returning ↓

Themes: ↓

• Personal knowledge management and note-taking systems.
• Local/self-hosted AI tooling and skepticism toward commercial AI services.
• Terminal/Linux tooling, especially minimalist command-line workflows.
• Software development workflows around Git, editors, search, and scripting.
• Curiosity about historical and conceptual computing topics.
• Chess study and online chess play.
• Media, UI/UX, and desktop environment experimentation.

Current focus: ↓

• Refining a custom Bash-based note-taking system with fzf, ripgrep, git sync, and markdown workflows.
• Exploring “second brain” / knowledge graph systems such as Zettelkasten, Atomic, and LLM-integrated note systems.
• Investigating local AI stacks using Ollama, RAG, local agents, and self-hosted tooling.
• Improving terminal-based productivity tools (Glow markdown renderer, lazygit, Forgejo, Helix, Sway).
• Thinking about syncing, organizing, and searching notes efficiently.

Possible ongoing projects: ↓

• A custom markdown note-taking application/script with:
  • fuzzy search,
  • git-backed sync,
  • note deduplication,
  • markdown previews,
  • terminal UI integration.
• A local/self-hosted AI workflow using Ollama and possibly RAG-style indexing over personal notes.
• Building or refining a personal knowledge base inspired by Zettelkasten or semantic knowledge graphs.
• General Linux/terminal environment customization and tooling experiments.

Best-effort interpretation: ↓

The notes suggest someone building a highly personal, terminal-centric workflow focused on speed, ownership, and local control. There is repeated interest in systems that connect notes, AI, and search into a cohesive personal knowledge environment. The author appears drawn to lightweight, composable tools rather than large integrated platforms, and often evaluates software through the lens of openness, self-hosting, and practical workflow utility.

The thinking style reflected in the notes is exploratory and iterative: saving links, implementation details, commands, partial ideas, and workflow experiments as building blocks for future refinement. There is also a recurring pattern of comparing conceptual systems (Zettelkasten, semantic graphs, AI memory layers, CRUD, git sync, UI paradigms) and adapting them into practical personal tooling.

Secondary interests visible in the notes include chess improvement, retro computing aesthetics/history, desktop customization, and media tooling.

Back to human ↓

No idea what deduplication would do or is, and my crappy chess ELO keeps falling down. Everybody knows that fzf is cool.