Introducing Wikiwise: an open-source Mac app for managing your own Karpathy-style LLM wiki.
Set up a new wiki in a few clicks: all you need is Wikiwise + your agent.
It's infinitely customizable, just markdown/html under the hood, and one click to share your wiki publicly.
Here's how it works:
* Install Wikiwise for mac (it's built in Swift so super minimal and performant). In Karpathy's framework, Wikiwise is your IDE.
* Start a new Wiki: it generates a new folder on your machine that's scaffolded in the wiki structure @karpathy describes (index.md, raw folder, wiki folder, CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md, although it tries to be as un-opinionated as possible).
* Then just point your agent (Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, etc) at the folder and tell it what to import -- files on your machine, connect to your @readwise account, or urls from the web.
* Your agent creates wthe wiki for you: Your agent will know how to ingest your raw sources (via the AGENTS.md) and will immediately start writing+linking wiki pages for you.
* Go crazy on customization! The rendered wiki pages live as static html/css in your folder too so just tell your agent to change stuff, and if you need any more customization Wikiwise is fully open source :)
* Ask questions about your research with your agent, ask it to bring in new sources, write new documents, etc.
* (optionally) Hit the Publish button to share your wiki with friends/colleagues at a custom URL
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I tried to walk the line on a couple constraints with Wikiwise:
1. I wanted it to be easy to spin up new wikis, especially without chaining together a bunch of different apps. It takes me a few minutes to spin up a new wiki on a topic -- I already have five!
2. Infinitely Customizable: one great aspect of building a wiki as Karpathy described is that you can modify any aspect of your wiki with your agent. Every new wiki styling+structure is self-contained in the local folder, which allows you to preserve this. Wikiwise is just an IDE that makes the setup easier and includes a nice un-opinionated starting state.
3. Minimal: Wikiwise is built mostly in Swift, and the DMG you install to download it is only 2.6MB (!)
4. Easy Publishing: my colleague @EleanorKonik has been building her own LLM wikis for months, but has always really struggled to actually share them with her book club. There are tools to do it, but figuring out hosting is always a huge headache. This seemed like an ideal usecase for a tool like Wikiwise to solve.
The process of building wikiwise was also pretty interesting -- I "bootstrapped" the app in a way by first building my own wiki based on Karpathy's tweet and other notes I had, and slowly formed the shape of the project in collaboration with my LLM. This was all done in 3 days over the latest Readwise company hackathon we had. Truly an incredible time to be alive.
Anyways, curious what you think! Links in next tweet.
Introducing the Readwise CLI.
Anything you've saved in Readwise (highlights, articles, PDFs, books, youtube, newsletters) is now instantly accessible from the terminal.
For you, and your AI agents.
npm install -g @readwise/cli
potential solution: dating apps as a byproduct of interest-based consumer apps
for example:
letterboxd -> reellove
chess -> checkmate
readwise -> breedwise
etc
this solves the problem of dating apps being terrible business models
🆕 in Readwise: Chat With Your Highlights!
You can now chat with your entire library of highlights using AI, making it effortless to find what you've saved, or spark connections across books.
I'd love to hear a conversation between @poetdavidwhyte and @FU_joehudson, each of them developed beautiful metaphors for the deeper parts of lived experience, can't help but wonder how would they intertwine.
Beyond excited my girl Emily in Paris is back. I’ve watched every episode and have not a single memory of last season, the names or any characters or anything else aside from the fact she has a job in Paris. It’s perfect TV. May it run for 1000 seasons.
Possibly the most incredible Beethoven Ode to Joy flashmob by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Nuremberg and the Hans-Sachs-Choir in front of the St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg, Germany.
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