Obsidian¶

Summary¶

A free markdown editor and knowledge base application with a graph view visualization, recommended as the viewing interface for LLM Wikis.

Features for LLM Wiki¶

Graph View¶

Press Ctrl+G (or Cmd+G on Mac) to see wiki pages as nodes with [[wiki-links]] rendered as edges connecting them. After ingesting just five papers, you should see a small but meaningful knowledge graph — concepts linking to related concepts.

Best way to see the shape of the wiki: what's connected to what, which pages are hubs, which are orphans.

Open Folder as Vault¶

Point Obsidian at your wiki/ folder and it treats it as a vault — all wiki-links resolve, graph view works, pages are navigable.

Web Clipper¶

Browser extension that converts web articles to markdown and saves them directly to your raw/ folder. Makes ingesting articles as fast as bookmarking them.

Tip: In Obsidian Settings → Files and links, set "Attachment folder path" to raw/assets/. Then bind "Download attachments for current file" to a hotkey (e.g., Ctrl+Shift+D) to download all images locally.

Plugins¶

Marp — markdown-based slide deck format; generate presentations from wiki content
Dataview — runs queries over page frontmatter (YAML tags, dates, source counts) to generate dynamic tables and lists

Role in the Pattern¶

Obsidian is the viewing interface, not the authoring tool. The LLM writes and maintains the wiki; you browse the results in Obsidian — following links, checking the graph view, reading updated pages.

"Obsidian is the IDE; the LLM is the programmer; the wiki is the codebase."