Turn 10,994 Notes Into Memory - Paul Iusztin, Decoding AI & Louis-François Bouchard, Towards AI
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AI Research OS turns research into files that a later session can reuse. Its repository separates copied source material from per-source summaries and synthesis pages about concepts, entities and comparisons. An index tells subsequent sessions what is already available.
When answering from an existing research directory, the agent starts with the index and follows relevant pages toward the original material as needed. That provides a concrete alternative to repeatedly rebuilding from pasted links. The implementation uses a local research wiki; its value is preserving and organizing prior work, rather than proving that a larger note collection produces more accurate answers.
- AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
- context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
“Turning thousands of notes, videos, documents, and repositories into usable AI context requires more than a bigger context window.”
“It requires memory and context engineering: organizing sources, indexing what matters, and loading only what the model needs.”
“Build a token-efficient memory layer from plain files, not a vector or graph DB”
- 00:00Introduction to the "Second Brain" concept
- 00:49The core problem: Losing research and finding meaningful notes
- 01:32Building an AI Research OS
- 02:05Meet the presenters
- 03:31Choosing the right tools for research (Google vs. LLMs)
- 04:51Why NotebookLM and vector databases aren't always ideal
- 07:08The need for a personalized research assistant
- 09:16Moving data to Obsidian for local file management
- 11:02Overview of the AI Research OS repository
- 12:48The three-layer system: Raw content, Index, and Wiki
- 13:28Architecture of the Deep Research algorithm
- 18:28Version 3: Adding the Wiki layer
- 20:13How the file-based index works
- 21:26Exploring the Wiki structure
- 22:49How to query the Wiki efficiently
- 25:01Managing snapshots and personal notes using PARA
- 27:04Demo 1: Researching agent engineering
- 31:58Demo 2: Ingesting and comparing GitHub repositories
- 34:25Demo 3: Ingesting custom web links
- 36:50Future improvements
- 38:45The Agent Engineering course overview
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