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Data Sources

The wiki should start with sources that are easy to capture, high-signal, and low-maintenance. Do not connect everything just because it is technically possible.

Recommended Source Tiers

Tier 1: Easy, Public, Low Risk

  • Personal Website - Public bio, projects, essays, and positioning.
  • GitHub - Repositories, READMEs, project history, issues, PRs, and commit context.
  • LinkedIn - Public career profile, roles, skills, and professional narrative.

These are good first sources because they are already curated and mostly public.

Tier 2: Private But Valuable

  • Research Notes - Your highest-signal private research and writing notes.
  • Obsidian Vault - Existing personal notes, even if vague or messy.
  • Journal entries and reflections.
  • Project plans, goals, and retrospectives.
  • Reading notes and highlights.

These need a stricter ingestion process because they may contain sensitive context and unfinished thoughts.

Tier 3: Useful Later

  • Calendar exports.
  • Fitness or health exports.
  • Browser bookmarks.
  • Podcast and video notes.
  • Chat exports.
  • Email newsletters.

Add these only after the wiki has proven useful with simpler sources.

Operating Rule

Every source should answer at least one of these questions:

  • Does this help explain who I am, what I know, or what I am building?
  • Does this improve decisions I repeatedly make?
  • Does this preserve context I would otherwise lose?
  • Does this reveal patterns across projects, interests, habits, or goals?

If not, leave it out.

First Ingestion Plan

1. Ingest Personal Website as the public identity baseline.

2. Ingest GitHub to build project and technical history pages.

3. Ingest LinkedIn to align the professional narrative.

4. Ingest Research Notes as the primary private source.

5. Audit Obsidian Vault and import only high-signal notes into a cleaner structure.