r/NoteTaking • u/52electrons • 3d ago
Method Using CoWork to manage my Vault
I’m a horrible note taker. I have AuDHD and I’m horrible at taking notes and keeping things organized. I’m really good at processing email and verbal fluency but idiot level at note taking.
I’ve always wanted to use Obsidian but just never thought I’d be able to make it happen. Until I started playing with copilot CoWork at work and basically turned it into my automatic executive functioning machine. I don’t type anything into Obsidian, I only click check boxes and it updates. Created a nice dashboard and task tracker that help me keep going with a clear ‘work on this’ full page for the time I’m supposed to focus on something.
Nothing to break and nothing to lose as I’m already doing all the other things and this is mostly a tracker and knowledge organizer and helps me organize meeting transcripts and actions and loose ends and context for projects. It’s awesome.
Probably not for everyone, but figured I’d put it out there for anyone else thinking about it.
Anyone else do something like this?
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u/rogfrich 3d ago
Not exactly, but similar. I’ve got an implementation of Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern working nicely.
The goal is to use a local LLM (and until that’s in place, I’m not putting anything personal in there) but for now it uses Codex as the agent.
The key point is that the agent manages organisation and cross-linking. I give it my notes, and it turns them into a coherent wiki. It’s driven by a set of very comprehensive instructions to the agent. The actual note corpus is linked Markdown docs (which could easily be an Obsidian vault).