https://github.com/michiosw/oamc

I built a local-first tool for turning research material into a maintained markdown wiki.

The idea is simple: instead of repeatedly querying raw notes or documents, sources get ingested into a structured wiki with source pages, concept pages, entity pages, and synthesis pages. Then questions are asked against that wiki, and useful answers get written back as new pages.

Everything stays file-based and Obsidian-friendly. There’s also a local dashboard and a macOS menubar app so it can keep running in the background.

I was trying to build something that feels more cumulative than chat, but much lighter than setting up a full RAG stack.

The original inspiration was Andrej Karpathy’s “LLM Wiki” idea. I also took some UI/product inspiration from wiki-os.

Curious if other people here have found wiki-first or markdown-first workflows more useful than pure retrieval for personal research and project memory.