Denis SmetDenis

LLM Wiki

A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

The core idea

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

Use these together with https://redsweater.com/fastscripts/ for global hotkey goodness in macOS

Requirements:

brew install fastscripts

Download all the scripts and put them in ~/Library/Scripts/

Installing Fish shell on MacOS (Intel and M1) using brew

Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line (like bash or zsh). This is how you can instal Fish on MacOS and make your default shell.

Note that you need the https://brew.sh/ package manager installed on your machine.

Install Fish

brew install fish

	#!/bin/bash
	# Copyright (c) 2025, The Objective Dad
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and
	# associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction,
	# including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
	# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
	# subject to the following conditions:
	#
	# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial

	#!/bin/sh

	# @raycast.schemaVersion 1
	# @raycast.title Summarize Safari page
	# @raycast.mode fullOutput
	#
	# Optional parameters:
	# @raycast.icon ✨
	#
	# @raycast.packageName Things

	#!/usr/bin/fish

	# You can add this to your ~/.config/fish/config.fish

	function __fish_complete_bash
	set cmd (commandline -cp)
	bash -c "source get-bash-completions.sh; get_completions '$cmd'"
	end

	# Set the tool to use bash completions

	# /etc/nsmb.conf - macOS 11.3 - 2021-04-29
	#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# SMB configuration for macOS 11.3 <-> Synology
	#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Additional information:
	# -----------------------
	# https://support.apple.com/de-de/HT211927
	# https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209
	# https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/309016/smb-share-deadlocks-since-high-sierra
	# https://photographylife.com/afp-vs-nfs-vs-smb-performance

	################ copy/replace file to ~/.bash_aliases

	################ Tuning bash ###########################################################################################
	# Command line history
	export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace
	export HISTFILESIZE=10000000
	export HISTSIZE=1000000
	shopt -s histappend # Append to the history file, don't overwrite it
	shopt -s checkwinsize # Check the window size after each command and, if necessary, update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.

	FROM php:5.5-fpm

	RUN apt-get update && \
	apt-get install -y php5-dev php-pear php5-common curl libcurl4-openssl-dev libpng-dev libfreetype6-dev libjpeg-dev libxml2-dev libpq-dev php5-memcached wget php5-intl libicu-dev default-jre libmemcached-dev && \
	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

	RUN docker-php-ext-install bcmath
	RUN docker-php-ext-enable bcmath