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The AI turned my whole Zotero library into an Obsidian vault in 34 hours

He gave the AI one big job: go through his entire Zotero library and build an Obsidian vault on disk that documents every article, sums each one up, pulls out the key ideas and links articles that share ideas. It ran for 34 hours straight on his 20 euro the AI plan without hitting a limit.

How it works

  1. Gives the AI the task in goal mode
  2. It works through the entire Zotero library article by article
  3. It writes an Obsidian vault on disk with a page for each article, a short summary and the key ideas
  4. It links articles that share ideas, forming a knowledge graph
  5. The run takes 34 hours without stopping

Why it’s worth knowing

It worked on one job for 34 hours straight, reading a whole research library and linking it together, on the cheapest paid plan.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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