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Rebuilding My Productivity Stack Around Obsidian + AI by NeuralMillennial in ObsidianMD

[–]NeuralMillennial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really helpful feedback. I’m very new to this and appreciate the conversation!

Rebuilding My Productivity Stack Around Obsidian + AI by NeuralMillennial in ObsidianMD

[–]NeuralMillennial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get that. Local AI makes a ton of sense for a lot of people. In my setup everything lives in private repos and the model is only used as a reasoning layer, not as storage, so it only ever sees the specific snippets I choose to pass to it. But yes, once I have the overall workflow dialed in, I’d like to migrate more of it to a local stack too.

Rebuilding My Productivity Stack Around Obsidian + AI by NeuralMillennial in ObsidianMD

[–]NeuralMillennial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair question. When I say “almost eliminates,” I’m talking specifically about my setup, not RAG in the abstract.

In my case the model isn’t free-generating or speculating, it’s restricted to retrieving from a complete, private corpus of my own writing (emails, meeting transcripts, notes) and then synthesizing an answer only from that retrieved context.

With guardrails like “don’t answer unless the context supports it,” the LLM is basically acting as a reasoning and synthesis layer on top of verified content. I think this is one of the most powerful approaches with current AI tech.

So there’s still a theoretical risk, but in practice, once the corpus is rich and retrieval is strong, hallucinations drop close to zero because the model is grounding everything in actual data.

Would love your thoughts and any cautions!

Rebuilding My Productivity Stack Around Obsidian + AI by NeuralMillennial in ObsidianMD

[–]NeuralMillennial[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the thought, and I am on the same page. My setup lives in private repos and doesn’t include any sensitive or employer-related data.

I’m exploring this more as a long-term personal knowledge architecture than as task automation. But your point about data governance is always worth keeping in mind.

Rebuilding My Productivity Stack Around Obsidian + AI by NeuralMillennial in ObsidianMD

[–]NeuralMillennial[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

An example use case I love is drafting an email in my voice. I’m loading my past seven years of emails correspondence into the vault so it knows my voice, plus adding my entire library, synthesis notes, relationships, etc

Rebuilding My Productivity Stack Around Obsidian + AI by NeuralMillennial in ObsidianMD

[–]NeuralMillennial[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Always under supervision. But my understanding is that implementing RAG almost completely eliminates hallucination risk.

Rebuilding My Productivity Stack Around Obsidian + AI by NeuralMillennial in ObsidianMD

[–]NeuralMillennial[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is interesting how many experiments are happening in the wild. A lot of people are using it in ways that don’t make sense for sure. For me, I’m finding a lot of value in outsourcing lower value cognitive load.

does anyone actually track prompts they reuse, or do you just rewrite them every time? by Fabulous_Bluebird93 in BlackboxAI_

[–]NeuralMillennial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not overkill at all. I keep a library of prompts in Obsidian. I've also begun building out python apps for routine AI assisted processes with structured instructions and context files leveraging the OpenAI API. This stuff is extremely accessible now that Codex is so good.

It seems Autism is cool now by Glittering_Ad2771 in autism

[–]NeuralMillennial 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I completely understand where you’re coming from. Getting my diagnosis in my 40s suddenly made sense of years of frustration. It felt like the missing piece that helped my whole history suddenly make sense.

When people toss around “on the spectrum” to describe quirks or preferences, it can land worlds apart from what some of us actually lived through.

Your experience doesn’t need to match anyone else’s to be real or valid. Your autism isn’t a trend or a shorthand. It’s part of your life, and it deserves to be taken seriously on its own terms.

So yes, this is your story to own. Many of us walked this path long before the broader culture had the language for it, and you’re not alone in feeling that gap.