I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.

Argues against extensive AI integration in personal knowledge management systems, warning that AI-generated content dilutes personal notes and recommends limiting AI use to specific research tasks while preserving the integrity of hand-written insights.

Initially, I resisted giving agents access to my Obsidian vault. It was my space, and I didn’t want it changing under my feet.

But how I use Obsidian has changed enormously over the past year.

Today, my agents have permission to read and write. Multiple agents work across the vault several times a day, keeping notes up to date, connecting dots, expanding links, finding relevant context, and generally tending to the space alongside me.

At first, I found it difficult to share what had always felt like my private thinking space. Now the opposite is true. It feels oddly lonely to write, explore, or think without that additional context and support around me. And it feels strange to imagine my agents not being up to speed on what I’m thinking, learning from it, and becoming more useful to me as a result.

I thought I might miss the solitude. I don’t. What I would miss now is the expansion: having ideas challenged, connected, rewired, and rewritten as I work through them.

I also wondered whether I would eventually abandon the shared vault as a kind of machine space and retreat to a new, isolated, private one.

That hasn’t happened either.

The vault still feels like mine. It just no longer feels like I’m alone in it.

That’s a pretty significant shift in mindset in a remarkably short period of time.