Powering my Personal Context Network

I track daily activities and attempt to spotlight successes with the word #win. One of my biggest weekly wins is discovering some gem I wrote decades ago and having it resurface through Brian Petro’s Smart Connections plugin for Obsidian.

I enjoy the gamified element of Smart Connections. Even after a year, I haven’t completed all 42 steps that make me a proficient user. For example, the first prompt is “get your first Connections Pro win” which had me grab one result that surfaces during a Smart Connection and then drag the result in to a current Obsidian note. I do that on a daily basis now.

There are very clever suggestions inside the plugin that help me turn pieces of connected data into reusable context. After using Smart Connections Pro for more than a year, I refer to my main Obsidian Vault as my Personal Context Network.

I don’t need an AI to run this repository of my personal information.

I expect to shed more than €600 of annual payments to different AI services because I can produce content from my own research material without asking an AI for help. The Smart Connections Pro plugin costs me €221 annually to power my Personal Context Network.