i shared learnings that started with a months long experiment: seeing how people reacted to sequences of my personal reading highlights printed on thermal receipts, in exchange for themes in their uploaded photos.

terminal notepad that records mic + system audio. every line you type gets a timestamp synced to the recording

after the call it transcribes locally, aligns your notes with the transcript, then distills everything into your obsidian vault with [[wikilinks]] to your existing thinking

Query: "getting things done"

qmd: "Once you are reaping the benefits of computers, you are also at their mercy."

enzyme: "The meaning of doing lives in the concentration and care brought to the act, not in the output."

Local model 20% the size. 12x indexing speed on 220 docs.