A ready-to-use Obsidian vault that works as an AI-maintained personal wiki. You capture thoughts and sources; an AI assistant (Claude Code, Codex, or any tool that can read files) files, links, and maintains the knowledge base with you.
Named after Munin, one of Odin's two ravens: the one that remembers.
- A folder structure that separates capture (Raw), knowledge (Atlas), and configuration (AI-OS), with Calendar and Efforts alongside.
- A note schema built on wikilinks, a small set of frontmatter fields, and an extended idea compass (
up,related,down,challenges). - Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) the AI follows for ingesting sources, creating notes, answering questions from the wiki, reviewing your daily note, and linting the wiki.
- Minimal Templater templates, three Bases dashboards, and a small worked example you can explore and then delete.
- An AI-led onboarding: paste one prompt and the AI interviews you, fills in your profile, and runs a guided first ingest.
- Click Use this template on GitHub (or download this repo as a ZIP).
- Open the folder as a vault in Obsidian.
- Install and enable the Templater community plugin (the only plugin required).
- Open START-HERE and follow it.
No git knowledge required to use the vault. When you are ready to back it up, AI-OS/Guides/github-and-backup explains git for people who write notes, not code.
| Layer | Folder | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Capture | Raw/ |
Inbox for sources and fleeting ideas, in transit, not an archive |
| Knowledge | Atlas/ |
Permanent notes, topics, maps, entities. AI-maintained, compounding |
| Schema | AI-OS/ |
How the vault works: your profile, the rules, the SOPs |
Calendar/ (daily notes, the main capture surface) and Efforts/ (projects and areas) orbit these three.
- Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea: a personal wiki curated by a language model.
- Nick Milo's AI-OS, File-over-AI, and ACE folder philosophy (Atlas, Calendar, Efforts).
- Zettelkasten atomic notes and the idea compass (extended here with
challenges). - Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF): folder index files and a single required
typeattribute.
This template borrows ideas from all of the above; mistakes in the synthesis are its own.
MIT licensed: use it, fork it, build on it. See CONTRIBUTING if you want to improve the template itself.