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Turning Daily Context Into a Local Personal Wiki

I do not want to write a personal wiki manually.

Most of the important material already exists before I sit down to organize it: diary notes, voice notes, messages, source logs, todos, and decisions made while working.

The problem is not a lack of information. The problem is that the information is scattered and disappears from working memory.

KnowYou MyWiki is an attempt to turn that daily context into a private local wiki that humans and AI agents can search later.

The workflow

During the day, KnowYou collects the context you already create:

  • diary notes
  • voice notes and transcripts
  • messages
  • app source logs
  • todos
  • project decisions

MyWiki then turns that material into source-backed pages around people, projects, decisions, concepts, sources, and todos.

The useful part is that each page keeps evidence. It should not feel like a vague AI summary that cannot be checked.

Why this matters for AI agents

Agents still start from zero too often. They ask the same background questions, forget project decisions, and miss context that was obvious yesterday.

A local MyWiki gives them a place to look first. The agent can retrieve cited local context before it answers, while the user keeps the memory layer on their own Mac.

This is the direction I want KnowYou to move toward: personal full-context infrastructure, not another blank-page note app.

Download for macOS:
https://giiift.site/know-you/

Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiaAVBtqBx0

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