- [ ] include tys thoughts on actionable ai digital brain Information is useless if you can't retrieve it when you need to. You can have proven strategies and paradigm-shifting ideas for overcoming problems or situations in your Obsidian vault. But when the time comes, what are the chances that you have mental clarity or capacity to visit these strategies in your vault? What if instead, you were occupied by the surge of undesired feelings related to the problem? I know when I find myself unexpectedly fatigued, it's much easier to leap into my bed and endlessly cycle between Youtube, Reddit, Instagram, and X, than it is to look through my notes on a potential solution to navigate my current situation. Fortunately, using the semantic search capabilities of AI these feelings can become a key to better unlock what we're looking for. Instead of escaping from the feeling, we can express it and miraculously have relevant suggestions return. Our notes can become an empathetic coach encouraging us to become our ideal self by keeping us aware of the actions we can take. But this does require a special type of note structure, which I'll refer to as "tactics". In a tactics note, we have 3 main headers: - **Problem**: for describing the situation you are in and the feelings associated with it - **Benefits**: for describing what you would ideally like to feel and become - **Advice**: actionable steps, relevant notes, anything that can help us go from problem to benefit With headers-organized embeddings per note, you can use AI to help guide you to the right tactics to help. This can be used on top of the [[PARA Method]] for further action-oriented retrieval. So, what would be the key points for retrieval? ## Headers ### Problem What is the current situation you are in? What is the ### Benefits The solution or benefit this tactic provides. How are you trying to feel? What are you trying to achieve? ### Advice In here, you include the ideas, steps, and existing notes to help you achieve your desired benefit. ## Usage ### Smart Connections View For when you just want to see what tactics are related to it. ### Smart Connections Chat Can be beneficial if you want a more personalized answer, as it uses [[Retrieval-Augmented Generation]] ## Message with Dante prob wont be able to help with ai tool for now but you know how one of the bigger pain points we talked about with a second brain is that when you need a piece of advice or strategy the most you might not have the mindset capable of finding it, so that's where AI can help. We should be able to just share how we feel or what we are trying to achieve and we should be recommended the right notes with the way vector embeddings work, what if we organized our knowledge in a way that directly parallelled the things we would ask AI? This would help with ensuring that it gets resurfaced as one of the options or answers? this can be called a "tactic" note so the way I'm thinking of doing this is by having different headers in my notes as different embeddings to act as retrieval cues for the tactic. I could have a problem header which would help AI find the note if I came to it with this specific problem, I could add a benefits header so if I told the AI I wanted to feel a certain way or achieve a certain outcome it could use that as retrieval