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I've used neovim for a couple years now, but had trouble using it professionally for devops work because package managers and such tend to break in certain environments i.e. docker containers; remote servers. Rather than go with the graybeard option of using plain vim in unusual environments, I experimented with not using any package managers and just directly controlling the environment.

This worked surprisingly well, so I reworked my dotfiles into a shareable format - which is freak.nvim

Hope others who have similar problems or just prefer this type of control freakery find it useful. :)


The PKM space for neovim plugins is a surprisingly deep rabbithole but it can take quite a while to find what you need.

For completions and tagging https://github.com/Feel-ix-343/markdown-oxide works well for me and does pretty much everything I need.

There are also a glut of all-in-one solutions like https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg (org-mode for neovim) and https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim.

Graphing is a bit harder because it doesn't intuitively match up with nvim's interface, but I'm pretty sure I saw something on Reddit the other day.


I should look into this because I have over 132000 words of text in my notes (more than the average novel) and I'm curious whether I can 'talk' to my second brain via a LLM.


Smart Connections[0] plug-in for Obsidian is worth checking out.

It does a really good job of indexing (with local or OpenAI embeddings) and RAG allowing you to chat with various models about your notes. The chunking and context algorithms it uses seem to be well designed and find most/all relevant details for most things I try to discuss.

It's well implemented and provides useful and interesting discussions with my journal/notes.

0 - https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections


You could first ask a LLM to compress your notes. There was some informal research into this a while back, LLMs have the ability to translate text into a much shorter representation that only they can understand. That might allow you to get around the context size limits.

More practically (or additionally) you could just ask it to summarize them or extract the most relevant parts.

Alternatively, I think the most popular approach is to use a RAG thing though someone else will have to fill you in on the current state of the art.


Personally I use insync to sync my notes to the cloud, and then sync them to my devices with similar apps for android.

Then it's just finding apps for editing the notes; everything from neovim on termux to just using Obsidian as a frontend is viable. But mobile is kind of a bad platform for plain text editing imho.


Hey, I wrote this! Thanks for sharing.


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