The latest from RA-H
Insights on knowledge management, AI-powered research, and the future of local-first thinking.
Why Obsidian and Markdown is the wrong approach for personal knowledge management

If agents are going to manage your knowledge, you should be building systems for agents, not humans. Markdown is the wrong foundation. SQLite is the better backbone.
Published on Jan 9, 2026
Why Your AI Intuition Is Broken (And How to Fix It)
We default to treating language models like people, but that's a mistake. Here's how to develop the right intuition for working with AI systems.
Published on Dec 16, 2025
Why Your Context Is So Important
Your context is becoming one of the most valuable assets in how you interact with AI. Here's why it matters, why you should protect it, and how.
Published on Dec 8, 2025
How We Should Think About Human/AI Collaboration
The way we understand and work with AI is becoming more important than domain expertise. Here's how to build richer interactions with language models.
Published on Dec 6, 2025
RA-H Now Connects to External Chat Apps
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP-enabled tools directly to your local RA-H knowledge base for seamless research integration.
Published on Dec 5, 2025
Externalise Your Thinking

Building your own structured, linkable and evolving knowledge base is the best way to externalise and improve your thinking and research.
Published on Dec 4, 2025
We Just Shipped Real-Time Voice to RA-H

Why real-time voice changes everything for knowledge work - and how the phonological loop makes you a better thinker when you talk instead of type.
Published on Nov 26, 2025
You Should Be Talking to AI, Not Typing

Why real-time voice interfaces are the cognitive enhancement we've been overlooking - and how they fundamentally change how we think and learn.
Published on Nov 18, 2025
Some Thoughts on Continual Learning
Why the way humans learn is weird, how AI tools are making us cognitively lazy, and how RA-H supports natural learning processes instead of replacing them.
Published on Nov 8, 2025
Zettelkasten in the Age of AI
Why the traditional Zettelkasten method becomes more valuable, not less, when AI can seemingly think for us — and how to avoid the vendor lock-in trap.
Published on Oct 28, 2025
The Case for Owning and Growing Your Own Context
Why context ownership is the most important thing you can do in the AI era - and how to stop bleeding your valuable insights to vendor platforms.
Published on Oct 15, 2025