Entity — Obsidian

Local-first markdown note-taking software — the “IDE” on which the LLM Wiki pattern runs.

Role in the LLM Wiki

Karpathy’s practice framing: “Obsidian is the IDE, the LLM is the programmer, and the wiki is the codebase.” The LLM edits the wiki inside the conversation; you open Obsidian to browse in real time: follow links, view the graph view, and read updated pages.

Key Features (mentioned in the gist)

• graph view — the best way to see the wiki’s shape (who links to whom, who is a hub, who is an orphan).
• Web Clipper — a browser extension that converts web articles into markdown, quickly feeding raw.
• attachment path setting — Settings → Files and links → Attachment folder path (e.g. raw/assets/), used with the “Download attachments” hotkey to save images locally so the LLM can view them directly.
• Marp plugin — generates markdown slides directly from wiki content (see marp).
• Dataview plugin — runs queries over page frontmatter to produce dynamic tables/lists (see dataview).
• wiki as git repo — version history, branching, and collaboration come for free.

Status of This Wiki

Joe-wiki is a standalone Obsidian vault sitting alongside the travel-notes vault (~/Obsidian_Vault/HermesNote), located at ~/Obsidian_Vault/Joe-wiki/.

Related

• llm-wiki-pattern — practice framing
• index-and-log — graph view relies on wikilink interconnection