This is me updating the concept page with the latest addition, including backlinks and a pop-up preview for each term. I hope it's useful.

bōkpanion is an iPhone app for readers with a Karpathy-style LLM wiki at its core. You have a Socratic conversation about a book (the AI is instructed to push back, ask deeper questions), and the app builds a wiki from your discussion. Entity pages, theme pages, reader insight pages. Cross-referenced automatically. With several books, you start to notice connections you didn't notice yourself.

There's also a "reader portrait" feature — the app generates a description of your intellectual personality: recurring questions, strongest theories, blind spots. It's the most uncomfortably accurate thing I've built. Read. Think. Discuss. Grow.

Architecture is SwiftUI / SwiftData, Claude via Anthropic API, with Apple Intelligence as a free on-device fallback. Everything is stored in your Apple Cloud, so it stays private. All your saved data can be backed up and exported as OKF files.

I'm looking for 20 beta testers — serious readers with opinions. Apply here. thanks!

I tried the usual Obsidian + Claude Code setup for a while and honestly didn’t get the hype at first.

Pointing Claude at a vault was useful, but it still felt like chat with extra steps.

What changed was the habit around it. I started making small files for everything: rough notes, drafts, research, specs, prompts, style rules, context. Not as “notes to keep,” but as working artifacts the agent could build on.

Then the vault slowly became a system. Folders, naming, context files, repeated workflows. Nothing fancy, but enough structure for the agent to stop starting from zero every time.

That’s when it started to feel different. Slower at the beginning, much faster once the project had context and direction.

I wrote down the longer version of my workflow here, but mostly curious: has this setup clicked for others too, or are you using Obsidian + agents differently?

https://www.nnehdi.me/p/outgrowing-the-chat-box

Logseq stores everything as plain .md files, but if you ever open one of those files directly on iOS (from Files, iCloud, Dropbox, a backup, etc.) you just get raw text. I built a small viewer to read them rendered on a phone.

Md Preview:

• Renders GitHub-Flavored Markdown — headings, tables, task lists, footnotes

• Code blocks with syntax highlighting, plus LaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams

• Opens .md / .markdown / .mdx / .rmd / .qmd from Files or the Share Sheet

• 100% on-device — no account, no uploads, no ads, no subscriptions

Free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760341080

Details: https://markdown.cybergame.ai/

Not a Logseq replacement at all — just a quick way to read loose .md files when you're away from the desktop app. Curious how you all read your graph on the go.

Hey there 👋

I built a Second Brain system in Notion to manage projects, notes, goals, and knowledge in one place without it turning into a messy note dump.

🌟 What Inside Your Second Brain?

This system bridges the gap between knowledge management and flawless execution. Every database seamlessly talks to each other to give you a bird's-eye view of your day-to-day life.

• ⚡ On-The-Go Quick Capture: Spot an article, have a middle-of-the-night business idea, or need to log a task? Capture it instantly via a mobile-optimized inbox without breaking your creative flow.
• 📂 Full P.A.R.A. Method Framework: Seamlessly categorize your life into Projects (short-term goals), Areas (ongoing responsibilities), Resources (topics of interest), and Archives (completed items).
• 🎯 Advanced Project & Task Management: Link daily to-dos straight to major life projects. Complete with progress bars, deadlines, and smart priority filters so you always know what to work on next.
• 📚 Personal Knowledge Library: Store book summaries, web clippings, research notes, and creative inspirations. Retrieve any piece of information exactly when you need it using a clean tagging system.
• 🛠 Daily Dashboards & Review Cycles: Plan your day with intentionality using distraction-free "My Day" views, and stay aligned with dedicated Weekly & Monthly review frameworks.

🚀 Bonus Features Included:

To ensure this truly becomes your comprehensive "Life Operating System," you also get built-in tracking ecosystems:

• 📈 Goals & Habit Tracker: Set ambitious milestones and build undeniable daily discipline with interactive habit tracking.
• 📓 Daily Digital Journal: Reflect on your personal growth, log daily wins, and keep your mindset sharp.
• 📖 Reading Log: Track your book counts, reading progress, and major actionable takeaways.

You can find this Second Brain here
➡️ https://zaap.bio/the-organized-grid

TL;DR: 16-year Evernote user (~16,000 notes, full GTD system) here. The new Claude MCP connection is the missing piece I’d always wanted — something that can actually think across the whole system. It doesn’t replace Evernote’s built-in AI; it sits on top and joins your notes up with your email, calendar, files, and the wider web. Use cases I’ve been running: literature triage, grant-idea matching, GTD reviews and inbox triage, project status reports, knowledge maps and dashboards, trip and meal planning, and questions that cut across life areas. Still early days, but there’s far more here than the first wave of articles covers. Happy to hear what others are doing with it.

Claude helped me draft this note (sorry) and the mermaid diagram, and then even created the note in my Evernote, here: Reddit post — Evernote Claude MCP: what's possible (r/Evernote draft)

I really want to sincerely thank Bending Spoons for this this and all the amazing and rapid developments and improvements. And please, now that I’ve had a taste of what is possible, it would be devastating for it to not eventuate, so please keep going with the MCP!

I've used Evernote as my main second brain for about 16 years. It has grown into a bit of a beast, somewhere around 16,000 notes, with an all of life robust GTD system within it, holding most of my life: work, research, projects, reference material, personal odds and ends, lists, all of it. The new Claude MCP connection takes it to another whole new, incredible level, and I wanted to share some of what it's been like, because the articles I've seen so far only cover a small slice of what's possible.

One bit of framing first, since I've seen people get worried about this. It doesn't push out Evernote's own AI. The built-in AI is good for working inside Evernote. The Claude connection is a layer sitting on top: it can read, search and write across the whole of my notes, reason over them, and reach out to things beyond Evernote too. So the built-in AI knows my notes, and Claude joins my notes up with everything else. Also, it doesn’t replace me. I know enough about GTD that it only works well and at its best if I’m personally involved - an AI tool doing (or pretending to do) everything is just not effective at all.

Here's some of what I've been doing with it.

Research and academic work

• Find every note tagged "study idea" (random brainstorms and more developed ideas in my "Someday" notebook) and line them up against a specific grant call. It reads them, groups them by theme, and tells me which are ready, which overlap things I'm already doing, and which are new.
• Work through hundreds of saved article-alert emails I'd dumped in a notebook over the years, pull out the papers, grab the details, and get them ready for my reference manager. That backlog had been quietly nagging at me for ages.
• Pull a scattered set of notes on one topic into a single up-to-date summary.
• Draft a section of a paper or grant out of rough idea-notes I'd never joined together.

Writing

• Take a messy brain-dump note and turn it into a proper draft.
• I wrote this post from my own notes, and I'll save it back into Evernote as a note I can link to.

GTD, reviews and getting unstuck

• Run my weekly review with me: go through the inbox, flag what hasn't been processed, list the projects that have gone quiet.
• Take an inbox I've fallen behind on and pull out the urgent and important next actions, weighted by what matters to me and what's live right now, using what it can see in my email and calendar as well. This one has been a real relief.
• Look across my projects and find the stale ones, the ones sitting there with no real next action, then either suggest a sensible next action or rewrite the vague ones into something I can do.
• Tell me which of my open tasks it could take on, and which ones I could let go of entirely.
• Grab one feasible thing off my someday/maybe pile when I've got a free half hour.

Maps, dashboards and the big-picture stuff

• Generate a map of all 16,000 notes. Themes, clusters, how things connect. Think Obsidian's graph view, except it doesn't stop at drawing the lines. It can tell me why two things connect and what's missing between them.
• Build those maps around whatever I'm chewing on that day, with no plugins to wrangle and no settings to fuss over. I ask, and it makes the view I want.
• Dashboards and reports off the cuff. One I had it put together recently was an interactive, clickable map of all my research ideas, sorted and tagged the way I think about them.
• Reports on how things have shifted over time. Trends across years of notes, how a theme has grown or faded, how my thinking on something has moved.
• Audit my own system. It compared my current setup against an old "how this all works" note and showed me what I'd changed and never written down, what had drifted, and where the mess had crept in. It also turns up orphaned tags, likely duplicates, and notes filed in the wrong place.

More use cases

Personal

• "What do I already know about this?" before a meeting or a catch-up, pulling together everything I've saved about a person, place or topic.
• Meal planning from saved recipes, with the shopping list sent off to my tasks app.
• Trips planned out of years of saved travel clippings.
• A book, film or restaurant pick off my own lists that suits the mood or the occasion.
• Finding the note I saved years ago but can't remember the words for, just by describing what it was about.

Work

• A quick brief before a meeting, built from past meeting notes.
• A whole project's notes boiled down to a short status update.
• Every action item scattered across dozens of notes pulled into one list.
• A handover or onboarding doc written out of accumulated project notes.

The joined-up part

• Questions that cross between areas, where a note about my values, a note about a career decision and a project note all bear on the same thing, and it brings them together.
• "How has my thinking on this moved over the years?" across a decade and a half of notes.
• Advice grounded in my own notes, so what comes back sounds like me rather than something off the shelf.

Why it matters to me

For 16 years Evernote has been my all of life system. The Claude connection is taking it to another level. It can read the whole thing, think with it, go and check the world when it needs to, and write back. And it isn't only Evernote now. With the other connectors, my email, calendar, desktop files and cloud files are in the picture too, so things that used to sit in separate boxes are finally linked up.

Still early days, and I'm finding the limits as I go. But "only scratching the surface" feels about right. There's a lot more in here than the first round of articles let on. Happy to swap notes with other long-time users on what you're getting out of it.

This is going to sound a little dramatic but bear with me.

Somewhere in the last couple of years I noticed my brain getting lazy. Why learn how something works when I can just ask an AI and move on? It's efficient, sure. But I started catching myself knowing nothing. Not the shape of a topic, not the why behind it, just a vague memory that I'd outsourced it. The knowledge would pass through me and leave nothing behind.

I didn't want the cure to be "go read a 400-page book." I love the idea of deep reading way more than I actually do it. What I actually wanted was something in between scrolling and studying. Quick, focused breakdowns of a single topic I could absorb in a few minutes and actually keep.

So I built Learnimo for myself.

The idea is simple: bite-sized topic breakdowns instead of giant book-reads. You pick something you're curious about, you get a clean breakdown, and the point is to come away actually understanding the thing, not just having seen it. You can make your own topics, share them, and fork anyone else's to make it your own. AI helps generate and shape the content, but the goal is the opposite of mindless. It's about putting knowledge back into your head instead of offloading it.

It started as a personal anti-atrophy tool. I'm putting it out there in case anyone else feels the same low-grade dread that we're all slowly forgetting how to learn.

It's on iOS, Android, and web: learnimo.co

Happy to answer anything. Would genuinely love to hear how other people are dealing with this. Am I alone here?

Has any body else here had issues sticking to notion?
I would love to use notion and these other “second brain” productivity apps to organize my life, but never seem to be able to keep up with the maintenance

I’m working on a notion/ticktick/craft notes alternative that I’m planning to release for iOS and Mac.

The idea is it organizes itself and feels seamless, helping you categorize and prioritize your todos and ideas automatically based on your life context. The more you use it the more organized it gets (opposite of notion, in my experience, which becomes a mess with uncategorized todos and notes)

Would anybody here be interested in beta testing it?

You’ll get free early access and 2 years of pro subscription.

Product Info: https://kept.do

Kept vs Notion deep dive https://kept.do/vs/notion

I’m the sole developer so I’m very willing to take feedback