Your First 100 Wiki Pages
From zero to a living wiki. A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up your first sources, running ingestion, and watching your knowledge take shape.
Start Small
Don’t dump your entire vault into sources/ on day one. Start with 2–3 articles you know well. You’ll learn more from watching 10 pages grow than from staring at 200.
Step 1: Install and Configure
- Install the plugin from Obsidian’s Community Plugins market
- Open Settings → Karpathy LLM Wiki
- Pick a provider (DeepSeek V4-Flash is the best starting point)
- Enter your API key, click Fetch Models → select a model
- Click Test Connection → green “LLM Ready” indicator means you’re good
- Click Save Settings
Step 2: Create Your First Source
Create a sources/ folder at the root of your vault. Move a note into it — maybe a blog post, article summary, or research notes.
Step 3: Run Ingestion
Press Cmd+P and type “Ingest Sources”. For a typical article, this takes 5–15 seconds.
When done, you’ll get an Ingestion Report showing entities extracted, pages created, and links established.
Step 4: Explore Your Wiki
Open the wiki/ folder. You’ll see entities/, concepts/, sources/, index.md, and log.md. Open a few pages and notice the [[wiki-links]]. Open the Graph View.
Step 5: Ask Questions
Cmd+P → “Query Wiki”. Ask something about the content you just ingested. The answer comes from your notes, not the internet.
Common Mistakes
Don’t use flagship models for ingestion. Start cheap, scale up if needed.
Don’t skip aliases. Run Complete Aliases when Lint shows missing ones.
Don’t ignore the log. wiki/log.md records every operation.