## Metadata: - Source: Nicole van der Hoeven (YouTube) - Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKWY33MXLvI [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/AI Tools for PKM and Obsidian|AI Tools for PKM and Obsidian]] ## Summary: Nicole van der Hoeven walks through five AI tools she uses inside her personal knowledge management (PKM) system — to *augment*, not replace, her own thinking. Her framing: AI "is only as good as the people that wield it," so use it instead of letting it use you. Each tool maps to a stage of the PKM workflow: reading, summarizing, writing, linking, and visualizing. ## Main Content: - **Reading — Readwise Ghostreader:** AI summaries and auto-generated questions on saved documents to speed comprehension and surface what to capture. - **Summarizing — ChatGPT:** spark ideas and condense material (underlying model at the time: GPT-3). - **Writing — Obsidian Text Generator plugin:** prompt- and template-driven drafting of notes/articles directly in the vault. - **Linking — Napkin:** surfaces connections between ideas across a topic (the "linking" stage that Zettelkasten depends on). - **Visualizing — Midjourney:** generate imagery to think visually about concepts. - The throughline: AI is a controversial but neutral technology; deployed deliberately at specific workflow stages it improves learning and note-taking rather than outsourcing them. ## Links - [[Personal Knowledge Management MOC]] — applies-in — AI tooling mapped onto the reading→linking PKM workflow - [[Building a Second Brain and the Zettelkasten Method]] — extends — the method these AI tools accelerate - [[AI for Content Summarization and Filtering]] — extends — the summarizing stage (Ghostreader/ChatGPT) in depth