u/mattiananetti

Hey everyone,
I have been running my personal second brain on GitHub for a couple of years now. It is mirrored locally, managed with some background automation jobs, and visualized using Obsidian where I heavily rely on critic markup editing. For operational work, it is paired with a Google Drive workspace for the team and Notion for project and task management.

While this markdown-first setup has served me well, I am starting to look at how modern graph compilers and agent memory layers fit into a mature workflow.

Specifically, I have been eyeing tools like Graphify for automated local graph building and document mapping, and GBrain for agent-native memory and self-wiring relationship extraction.

Before diving into a migration or heavy refactoring, I wanted to tap into the community here. Has anyone actively tested Graphify, GBrain, or other alternative second brain infrastructure alongside a markdown setup?

What has your experience been with automated entity extraction versus manual wikilinks, and are these tools actually useful for day-to-day operations or are they more overhead than they are worth?

Would love to hear what worked or failed for you.

Hi all, I’ve been using a second brain in obsidian+local file system on my Mac (so synced w/icloud drive) since a year or so, with an mcp to query it remotely. Super cool!

Yet, I’d like to backup on GitHub or eventually mirror it on GitHub to understand differences pros and cons. I feel GitHub is a bit an all-in-one compared to other tools and many are already using it.

I am stuck as I am using the brain more as an operating system than as a context for the LLMs, editing and storing files on which I work and then I push them on the company Google Drive when they are finished or at a good point.

I make an example: Now I am planning the Q3 so I take financial data in Excel, CRM data via MCP plus Excel qualitative data, interviews, and other stuff; I put all together in a subfolder of the Q3 planning then I put an agent to work and interact with me in Claude to plan the quarter itself. The output is a markdown file that is then stored in the Q3 folder and every two weeks I iterate on these files, basically seeing if the plan is on track. They are live folders, not used only as a context. This live setup helps me with Claude code routines to have suggestions from agents of tasks, what to improve next etc.

Do you think GitHub is a good tool to do it or is it better I continue using my local environment? Any other ideas?