Knowledge

Knowledge has three main folders. Choose by the role of the material, rather than creating a new folder for every subject.

Area	Use it for
Knowledge/Library	External sources such as articles, papers, and event material
Knowledge/Topics	What you have learned about a subject from sources and experience
Knowledge/Study	Courses, study groups, and learning organized into sessions or a curriculum

Save a source with its context

Give the agent a link or file and explain why you want to keep it:

Save this article as a source note. Keep its attribution and link, explain the part relevant to my project, and distinguish the author's claims from my comments below.

A useful source note lets you return to the original and understand why it mattered. Ask for attribution, relevant publication information, and a summary proportionate to your purpose. If the source cannot be accessed, the note should say what was actually available instead of pretending the agent read the whole document.

Saving or summarizing a source does not mean you have read it. Lifebase distinguishes an archived source from your own review of it.

Develop understanding across sources

When several sources answer the same question, ask the agent to find an existing topic note before creating another:

Use these two sources to update my existing topic note. Separate points they agree on, points they dispute, and my current interpretation. Preserve the original source links.

Keep direct source claims, your experience, and agent inference distinguishable. For a paper, preserve equations, figures, and qualifications that are necessary to understand the result; a shorter note is not automatically a better one.

Use Knowledge as an LLM wiki

An LLM wiki is a collection of linked knowledge notes that an AI helps write and maintain. In Lifebase, source material lives in Knowledge/Library, while topic notes in Knowledge/Topics bring related findings together. Start with a question:

How do AI agents remember things? Research it and make a knowledge note. Link it to anything relevant already in my vault.

Open the resulting note to check the explanation, sources, and connections. Later, bring another source or ask a follow-up:

Does this article change anything in the agent memory note? Update it where needed and keep the source links.

Ask the agent to read existing notes before answering, reuse the right topic note, and leave unresolved disagreements visible. Each investigation can improve the same collection instead of leaving another isolated chat summary.

Connect knowledge to work

Use a study record for lessons and exercises that belong to a course. Put an action you must carry out into Tasks, with a contextual link back to the knowledge it uses. You can then track the action in Tasks and return to the source when you need it.

For existing collections, request the optional content-import workflow. Import a few notes first and check that their titles, links, attachments, and content are intact before importing more. You can keep adding new notes while you organize older ones.