![[robogics_research_timelaps_1280_20.gif]] This is a 30x speed timelapse showing AI progressively updating an Obsidian notebook for mapping the consumer robotics tech ecosystem. On the left we see the graph view from Obsidian, reacting to the edits being made by - The colored dots are Robots, Design Tools, Runtimes, Events, and other related items. - The white dots are the Organizations that own/maintain those items. - The pink dots are Standards, for example, the URDF file format is the largest pink dot, and it's connected to every product that can import or export it. On the right we see AI executing a prompt against the entire notebook. I use AI to maintain and work with this notebook: - I open the notebook's folder in Cursor and instruct the AI like "Add Tinkercad Circuits" - An AGENTS.md file contains instructions telling the AI to look up the website, learn about it, add the organization behind it, cross-link it to whatever standards it supports. - I can use AI to query across the notebook like "Here's my project idea < idea >, what already exists that's similar? Which organizations would make good partners and which would be competitors? What standards should I support?" If you want to do a similar AI-managed notebook workflow: 1. Download the free and open source [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) and create a new notebook (vault). 2. Start an AGENTS.md file at the root of your notebook with your AI instructions. 3. Download [Cursor](https://cursor.com), [KiloCode](https://kilo.ai/) or your AI coding tool of choice (I install Kilo inside of Cursor), and Open Folder on your Obsidian notebook. 4. Prompt away... ![[robotics_landscape_graph_view.png]]