Munin-Template-Vault

A ready-to-use Obsidian vault that works as an AI-maintained personal wiki. You capture thoughts and sources; an AI assistant (Claude Code, Codex, or any tool that can read files) files, links, and maintains the knowledge base with you.

Named after Munin, one of Odin's two ravens: the one that remembers.

What you get

• A folder structure that separates capture (Raw), knowledge (Atlas), and configuration (AI-OS), with Calendar and Efforts alongside.
• A note schema built on wikilinks, a small set of frontmatter fields, and an extended idea compass (up, related, down, challenges).
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) the AI follows for ingesting sources, creating notes, reviewing your daily note, and linting the wiki.
• Minimal Templater templates, three Bases dashboards, and a small worked example you can explore and then delete.
• An AI-led onboarding: paste one prompt and the AI interviews you, fills in your profile, and runs a guided first ingest.

Quickstart

1. Click Use this template on GitHub (or download this repo as a ZIP).
2. Open the folder as a vault in Obsidian.
3. Install and enable the Templater community plugin (the only plugin required).
4. Open START-HERE and follow it.

No git knowledge required to use the vault. When you are ready to back it up, AI-OS/Guides/github-and-backup explains git for people who write notes, not code.

The three layers

Layer	Folder	Role
Capture	Raw/	Inbox for sources and fleeting ideas, in transit, not an archive
Knowledge	Atlas/	Permanent notes, topics, maps, entities. AI-maintained, compounding
Schema	AI-OS/	How the vault works: your profile, the rules, the SOPs

Calendar/ (daily notes, the main capture surface) and Efforts/ (projects and areas) orbit these three.

Credits and inspirations

• Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea: a personal wiki curated by a language model.
• Nick Milo's AI-OS, File-over-AI, and ACE folder philosophy (Atlas, Calendar, Efforts).
• Zettelkasten atomic notes and the idea compass (extended here with challenges).
• Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF): folder index files and a single required type attribute.

This template borrows ideas from all of the above; mistakes in the synthesis are its own.

License and contributing

MIT licensed: use it, fork it, build on it. See CONTRIBUTING if you want to improve the template itself.