From Lab to Life · Essay

The Second Brain That Grows Smarter and Lives on Your Computer

How a spark from Andrej Karpathy, a free note-taking app called Obsidian, and a locally-hosted tool, "The Curator", I built are changing the way I think — permanently.

Published
15 April 2026
Author
Tali Režun
Topics
Second Brain · The Curator

Introduces The Curator through Karpathy's "LLM as wiki" insight: a local, private, Markdown-based knowledge graph that Obsidian can read. Explains the difference between a second brain that grows and one that only stores. Focused on onboarding non-technical readers.