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Generally curious, how is this different from pointing Claude Cowork at an Obsidian Vault?

• kenforthewin 6mo ago
  Biggest difference is Atomic leverages an LLM to auto-tag and a text embedding pipeline to drive semantic search - so the knowledge base is self-organizing. The bet here is that having an agent grep the filesystem is fine for a carefully curated, relatively small set of markdown files. It starts to degrade if you approach your knowledge base as a place to put everything: personal notes, articles you find interesting, entire textbooks if you want to. Having a vector database in this context is pretty much required past a certain scale; a filesystem-based approach is just an incredibly inefficient way to do retrieval in this context, and your agent is bound to miss important data points.
  • thomas_viaelo 6mo ago
    Does the LLM auto-tagging and embedding pipeline run on the device, or are they remote calls?
  • redrove 6mo ago
    So an Obsidian plugin? Got it.
    • kenforthewin 6mo ago
      One can imagine an obsidian plugin of any arbitrary level of complexity, given it's written in a Turing-complete language.