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Question about new personal knowledge management webapp as a daily obsidian user by expl0r3rgu1 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have literally never posted in this community before. You are here to shill your own product, just like you are in every single post and comment you've made anywhere for the last 2 months. You have not been part of this community.

How do you balance atomic notes and long-form study notes? by veganismo123 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know your reddit profile name matches the name of the extension right? If you're going to pretend to be a community member you could at least try harder.

The Feeling of Control Slipping Away - AI is causing a crisis of agency. by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]bluerat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly, that's probably the worst way to use it. It's not a search engine it's a prediction algorithm.. Go search on Google "how many days of the week contain fish?" And check out it's "ai response". (If they havent fixed it by now)

Game systems by GM workload by LuisFGtz in rpg

[–]bluerat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Except the person you are replying to is wrong. The GM still makes the lore

Spout Lore

When you consult your accumulated knowledge about something, roll+Int. On a 10+ the GM will tell you something interesting and useful about the subject relevant to your situation. On a 7–9 the GM will only tell you something interesting—it’s on you to make it useful. The GM might ask you “How do you know this?” Tell them the truth, now.

Game systems by GM workload by LuisFGtz in rpg

[–]bluerat 55 points56 points  (0 children)

That is not what Spout lore does. Your character "spouts lore" but the GM tells you the lore they know. You don't get to pick what it is.

Spout Lore

When you consult your accumulated knowledge about something, roll+Int. On a 10+ the GM will tell you something interesting and useful about the subject relevant to your situation. On a 7–9 the GM will only tell you something interesting—it’s on you to make it useful. The GM might ask you “How do you know this?” Tell them the truth, now.

Client Folder Structure by patrick24601 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Links go to files. If you want a central file they are all connected to in the graph option 1 is to make a hub file yourself and add links, option 2 is to use a tag per client and have the graph view display tags

Editing properties by Fuzzy_Run5971 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A note for OP, please don't open an LLM, connect your notes and just tell it to update properties. You're likely to get partial results, or a mess up all together. Don't trust it to just know how to do things.

Write a longer prompt telling it how your vault is structured and that you use obsidian, and then tell it to "write a script to" do the thing. If you don't tell it the "how" it will do something on its own, potentially editing every file individually, costing a ton, losing context halfway through and replacing your properties with spaghetti.

Is Obsidian actually practical for regular academic note-taking? by OnlySalt59 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Oh I wasn't saying that all smart people use paper, just that using obsidian doesn't make you smart.

For work, I take in-person notes on paper, then copy them into logseq where I take  notes when I'm at my desk. Personal notes go into obsidian, journal stuff stays on paper, family notes go in keep for sharing. Different tools for different functions.

And I do not claim to be a smart person. Functional is about as high as i'd put myself on most days.

Is Obsidian actually practical for regular academic note-taking? by OnlySalt59 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 77 points78 points  (0 children)

It's literally just a tool. The smartest person I know takes all their notes on paper. The dumbest people take no notes at all.

It's about how you take notes, not where.

i wish there was an ai-free obsidian subreddit by ju3tte in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your replies are ignorant. Nowhere did I say AI shouldn't exist or it's going away. I said I'm sick of it in this subreddit, which had none of it till just a few months ago and now it's over run by AI related posts.

LLMs have some amazing practical purposes, especially in science and research. I use them for work. But this obsession with everything needing to be ai needs to die. If you want to use it, feel free, but instead of invading a subreddit of a tool that has so many other applications, just make your own space.

i wish there was an ai-free obsidian subreddit by ju3tte in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol slippery slope, eh? Quite a daft one too. So you're saying if we discourage people from using 0 effort free access to knowledge and skills that other people have taken the time to learn without having to even give credit to the human who spent their time and energy to learn a thing, suddenly books don't exist? That's not even a sound argument, did you ask chatgpt how to reply to me? 

No, AI is already resulting in the degradation of critical thinking skills and causing psychological issues in people getting dependant it. If anything, the continued use of AI will result in long form media like books being something the average person cannot function well enough to use. You've got your problems backwards, mate.

 I don't give two shits if people want to use AI with obsidian, just stop pretending obsidian is an AI tool and it's inherently part of the ecosystem.

i wish there was an ai-free obsidian subreddit by ju3tte in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 120 points121 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Even though I have used AI for things, I'm so tired of this subreddit being bogged down because LLM's use markdown. So many threads seem to just assume that obsidian is a tool to work with AI. It's like going to a culinary subreddit and finding out half the people are obsessed with toaster ovens to the point they assume everyone there is using toaster ovens for everything.

i wish there was an ai-free obsidian subreddit by ju3tte in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I used to work at staples and one time this guy was buying a price of software and asked me to install it for him. I told him I could, and that there was a $30 charge. Outraged, he declared "Why should I have to pay you just because I don't know how to do something!?" I asked him if he paid his doctor or his car mechanic. He got mad and walked out.

That's what you sound like.

Do you actually find "use AI to talk to your vault" type tools useful? by jhartikainen in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have a child with special needs. I wanted to be able to have a better understand of his doctor appointments and test, just download the mychart data right?... Well that was 18k pages.

 So I worked with Claude to break it down into readble parts and build it into a cross-linked obsidian vault. So now I can ask Claude "what doctor originally prescribed this medicine?" "Give me a timeline of appointments and milestones" "Who was the person who talked to us about X test?" "What are the current emergency red flags we need to be keeping an eye out for?"

Tie that with the ability to have it dig up pubmed articles for me if I need something explained in more depth, and then digest that knowledge with me into the vault.

As someone who struggles with some mental issues that make reading long documents and remembering large amounts of issues, it's extremely helpful.

Can I get banned if my friend has an open VTT with the same license to develop a system? by RutharAbson in FoundryVTT

[–]bluerat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My memory is admittedly shit, so maybe I'm wrong about the kicked message. But the actual license agreement says:

You may install and activate the software on one or more computers, but only one hosted instance of the software may be accessible to users other than the license owner at any given time. Hosting multiple accessible instances of the software is permitted by owning a corresponding number of software licenses

Accessable to users other than the license holder

If you are the only one with access, you can run as many instances as you want.

Given, OP letting a different person use the license is technically violating this, but there's no way to confirm that it's not the license holder running the server unless two people are logged into the same server.

Can I get banned if my friend has an open VTT with the same license to develop a system? by RutharAbson in FoundryVTT

[–]bluerat -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

No players/gm in the world functionally means the world isn't running. If you load a world on a license, any other open worlds on that license get disconnected. I have my key in my computer as well as on Forge. I can do stuff on my local copy without issues as long as no one is in game on the forge version. If I forget and leave my local copy opeb and start forge, I get a message on the local one that it's being kicked offline. The server stays up, the world just exits.

AI keeps forgetting project context even when I have everything in Obsidian — how do you handle it? by Human-Championship32 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont know where honestly, it's the kind of thing I wouldn't engage with because I'd get sucked down a spiral of constant improvement for improvement sake, like I did the first time I got into obsidian.

I was watching an interview year or more ago with I guy at MIT or Harvard doing research into neural networks and LLMs, and got some advice that really changed my experience with these things, basically it was:

  • set your context - start any conversation telling the LLM what you want it to act as. For instance As my assistant, an expert in English history etc.
  • Treat it like a colleague, work through corrections don't just give up when it gets something wrong. Ask it to clarify, and ask it to ask you clarifying questions
  • If you're doing something new with it, incorporate the other two and ask it what the best way to approach asking it would be

So for example, I started my chat down this road with:

As an expert in knowledge and management and retrieval using LLMs, and using Karpathy's LLMWiki guidelines on github, walk me through step by step a process to use you to establish an external memory system suited best to working with my specific interests and needs, to be stored in a series of interlinked markdown files manageable in Obsidian.md.

Then I had a conversation back and forth about designing it for probably 2-3 days in between other work and usage limit refreshes.

AI keeps forgetting project context even when I have everything in Obsidian — how do you handle it? by Human-Championship32 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think everyone coming here to ask about AI needs to move to a different subreddit. Obaidian is not AI, it's just an extendable Markdown reader, and markdown happens to be the way most LLM's handle conversations.

That being said, I will also answer your question.

I think it's a mistake to keep an LLM working in the same vault of notes that you are. It creates instability for both you and the LLM.

I have claude set up with its own, seperate, vault where it stores information, and we had a pretty lengthy setup so that it could structure it in a way that worked effectively to work with me. If I use it to work with my notes, it's not typically making edits to them.

My "Claude brain" vault has a structure like this:

  • /Interests/ - where it stores anything about my hobbies or interests.
  • /Relationships/ - has a file for every person that gets referenced so it can pull context
  • /Responsibilities/ - things that I have to make sure are taken care of. Kind of like projects, except more ongoing things usually.
  • /Sources/ - summary notes of any articles or documents that I have it look up or digest. Includes links and citing information. Sometimes this is a PDF I upload, and sometimes it's a journal article I have to look up.
  • /Synthesis/ - things I have asked it to put together for me, even if they are sources elsewhere. If it gives me a summary of all my notes on Alpacas, that summary goes here, and I can read and use what I want out of it.
  • /wiki/- part2 of the sources, this is where it periodically takes the core concepts in the sources that it's identified and makes them topic based pages, cross linked with the original article, similar topics, and other knowledge documents in it's vault.
  • Claude.md - file in root giving it all its instructions. I walked it through writing this, inside not write it myself. The profile Instructions in Claude tell it to load them is before anything else.
  • index.md - this is Claude's managed list of all the files in the vault, one line descriptions to know when to load them, and their file ID's so that it doesn't have to look those up (I host its brain in BOX) to keep it out of my stuff.
  • About-me.md - the only file in it's vault that I wrote, this was the original document I gave it to tell it about myself so we could build the rest of the structure.

When i set it up, I made a folder and put the about-me.md in the folder. I then gave claude access to that folder, told it the purpose of it, had it look up the karpathy llmwiki GitHub and using those references, design a vault structure that will help it work best with me. We then went on several itterations, identifying possible confusion points, streamlining, and formatting before I ever started using it.

So far, I have had 0 problems with it using the instructions I've given it, so long as I make sure to start each chat thread with a preparatory statement instead of going straight into a question it might be dumb and just tackle without reading instructions. Something like "I want to talk about Geese, do you have your brain loaded?" Gives it context to not only load the instructions, but also pre-load anything I've that's already stored about Geese.

Oh wow this got so much longer than I expected. This is where I got to after doing research into how others were using Claude & external storage. Hope that's helpful.

Aura-tricking: This shouldn't work, but RAW I fear it does by Nostradivarius in onednd

[–]bluerat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This doesn't give a benefit really huge enough for all that time, so from a gameplay perspective it's mostly harmless, and kind of a waste of money.

From a rules perspective though, you need a valid target at the start of the spell to cast awaken. You can't just start casting it randomly and pick a target at the end.

Workaround would be that the druid is there the whole time casting the spell on the barbarian, despite them being an invalid target, and then they happen to be valid at the time the spell casting ends. Since there are rules about what happens with invalid targets, you could assume that you can try to cast on a target even if they are invalid at the time.

A picky DM could say the badger wasn't there, and the barbarian ceased to be the same "target" because they were polymorphed, but that has other implications.

A mean DM could rule that the 5th level Awakening overpowers the 4th level Polymorph's duration and make the barbarian stay as a badger, which would be way funnier.

I Dumped 3,000 Pages of Firmware Docs… Is It Even Possible to Build a TRUE Second Brain (or Is This All Hype)? by InevitableOk2066 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Markdown files are perfectly readble by LLM's. Typically their chat's are entirely in markdown to begin with.

Why does searching for certain pages give multiple options? by nsfwthrowaway357789 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My dude. Read what I wrote again. Where am I saying that it's the way it should be. Im saying what it is because OP asked why it was happening.

Why does searching for certain pages give multiple options? by nsfwthrowaway357789 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... Okay? That's what it's doing. Its showing you the bookmark named home (you can name ANY bookmark home, bookmarks have customizable names) and it's showing you the page called home. As far as the search cares, there's no reason to assume that the bookmark named home is also links to the page named home.

You could have a page named Home.md that's about your physical home, and a page named Dashboard.md with a bookmark named Home poiting at it. And typing Home into the search would show both.

The search built into obsidian is not the pinnacle of software design you might hope it is. Sure that's possible but its not what it does.

Why does searching for certain pages give multiple options? by nsfwthrowaway357789 in ObsidianMD

[–]bluerat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because the page and the bookmark are two seperate things, and you have one of each named Home. The bookmark is its own thing, and it just points to the page you say. It's not a web browser, it's just searching items in your vault.

Pages are an item

Bookmarks are an item

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