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Personal Knowledge Management at Scale — Analyzing 8,000 Notes and 64,000 Links
A deep dive into the technical implementation and analysis of my Personal Knowledge Management system containing 8,000 notes and 64,000 links, exploring its architecture, key principles, automation and impact.

I’ve been managing my entire knowledge base in Obsidian for the past 3+ years. Today, I’d like to share insights from analyzing nearly 8,000 notes containing 2.8M words (equivalent to ~32 books!), interconnected by over 64,000 internal links. My goal is also to explain why my system scales.
Introduction
The journey to build this system started with a simple goal: create a reliable “second brain” that could scale with my own needs. Like many developers, I initially underestimated the technical challenges of managing large amounts of interconnected knowledge. What began as a collection of Markdown files evolved into a sophisticated system that now powers my content creation, research, and business decisions.
The thing is that I always wanted to have a single source of truth for all my content and ideas. But it took me a long while to get there. My system has grown a lot in the last few…