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Research: going deep on a topic over weeks or months — reading papers, articles, reports, and incrementally building a comprehensive wiki with an evolving thesis.
- add the obsidian web clipper browser extension
- topic -specific wikis so that clearner graphs than one giant wiki
- fine-tune on your wiki: at 100+ well-maintained pages, the wiki becomes a high-quality training set. You can eventually fine-tune a smaller model on it - turning your personal research into a custom private intelligence
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Reading a book: filing each chapter as you go, building out pages for characters, themes, plot threads, and how they connect. By the end you have a rich companion wiki. Think of fan wikis like Tolkien Gateway — thousands of interlinked pages covering characters, places, events, languages, built by a community of volunteers over years. You could build something like that personally as you read, with the LLM doing all the cross-referencing and maintenance.
myresearch/ ├── raw/ (input dump) ├── wiki/ (AI-organized knowledge base) ├── outputs/ (AI-generated reports and answers) └── GEMINI.md (operating instructions for the AI)
- Syncing
Run "make sync" in your terminal, then copy the outputted prompt into Gemini.
- Auditing
Run "make audit" to get the prompt for checking your wiki's health (identifying contradictions, stale info, etc.).
- Saving
Run "make push" to quickly commit and push your research updates to Git.
- [Meditations] by Marcus Aurelius
- [The Daily Stoic] by ryan holiday
- [善用悲觀的力量] by William B. Irvine, 李林
- [Don't Sweat the Small Stuff about Money] by Richard Carlson