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Five files across four note types so every new Obsidian Base has
something to display immediately when the vault is opened:

- daily/2026-04-19.md — today's journal entry, covering the PKB
  setup work. Wikilinks to the permanent note, project brief, and
  reading note below.
- notes/pkb-as-lens-substrate.md — the load-bearing design note
  capturing the PKB-as-substrate / Council-as-lens inversion that
  drove this whole extension.
- projects/mql/brief.md and log.md — active project tracking the
  companion Markdown-Query-Language CLI (sibling repo). First log
  entry records the Go-over-Rust decision and v0.1 scope.
- reading/audiopen-integration-research.md — marked done; captures
  the two-clouds distinction (AudioPen's processing cloud
  unavoidable; Obsidian Sync optional) and names Tailscale Funnel
  as the chosen webhook-exposure path.
- inbox/2026-04-19-1900_test-ingestion.md — hand-authored fleeting
  note (source: manual, distinguishable from AudioPen drops) so
  /triage-inbox has something to exercise on before the real voice
  pipeline is running.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-19 20:18:14 +02:00

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PKB as substrate; Council as lens

The load-bearing design move for the journaling extension was inverting what is central and what is applied. Rather than: "Council is the thing, notes are added alongside," it became: "the personal knowledge base is the substrate holding thinking over time; the Council (and /ask-*, /reflect, reviews) are lenses applied to that substrate."

Supporting

Consequences of the inversion:

  • Notes have primacy. Daily journal, permanent notes, project logs, reading notes, and fleeting captures are where the user's thinking accumulates. The Council's advisory output (sessions/, reflections/, reviews/) is derivative — it depends on the notes existing.
  • Multiple lens modalities make sense. Formal deliberation (/council), lightweight single-agent consult (/ask-<member>), journal pattern-surfacing (/reflect), structured reviews (/review-week, /review-month) — all are lenses over the same substrate. If the substrate didn't exist, most of these would be hollow.
  • Council members need PKB read access. Previously they read only the session brief + their own memory. Now they can pull context from the user's actual thinking, with the discipline to read selectively.
  • on-the-user.md becomes richer. Every lens invocation is an opportunity to notice something non-obvious about the user and record it. Previously these files grew only during /council Phase-5 updates; now they can grow from /ask-* and /reflect too.