# Ditching Obsidian and building my own

<https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/building-my-own-pkms>

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## What Jamie wrote

Quoting [myself from 2022](https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/01/14/when-i-read.html):

> When I read articles from people sharing their bespoke [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) setups I think one of the best things I've done for my productivity is to completely ignore Obsidian.

I then did [jump in in 2024](https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/01/28/jumping-into-obsidian.html) and jumped back out shortly after.

The siren song of a personal knowledge management system is compelling. But none of these solutions are what I want. I think a partner AI model is probably the best avenue for this. A private LLM that you just throw things at.

I'll pass on being a librarian for my own notes. And certainly wouldn't build my own.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT320: Weekly Thing 320 / Octopus, Agentic, Voyager](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/320/), Notable

## Mentions

- [Obsidian](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/11796bc7cd9e/) (obsidian.md, May 28, 2020)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/building-my-own-pkms