WikiBonsai

A structured knowledge layer in plain text

Organize what you know into a semantic graph
All in plain text, readable by anyone, any model, any tool.

✨ Guiding Lights

Philosophy
WikiBonsai extends markdown with conventions drawn from personal knowledge management (PKM). These conventions turn a collection of plain text files into a jungle gym for thought: Note-taking becomes a practice of building understanding, and your notes stay useful and accessible in the long run.

🪨 Bedrock Workflow

Standardization
The bedrock of the WikiBonsai project relies on four workflow components:

Wiki Syntax

Extend markdown with [[wikirefs]] syntax for quick associative linking to build vibrant concept webs

Link Type Support

Add CAML-style metadata like :semantic::attributes for clean, lean, YAML-like structured data -- without frontmatter separators (---)

Knowledge Tree

Organize concept indexes across multiple notes, which are automatically merged into a unified knowledge bonsai

Graph View

See your notes as an interactive graph -- a visual map that emerges from the relationships between concepts

🌱 Tools for Growing

Learning Loops
Grow and train your knowledge with the help of AI generation.
germinator

The Germinator is an AI-powered concept analyzer. Enter a word and get a starter semantic mapping of the related concept.

Come with me if you want to
tree-trainer

The Tree Trainer is an AI-powered language trainer. Enter a sentence and get a diagram of the sentence.

Inside you have strong root. No need nothing except what inside you to

✂️ Tools for Tending

Usage
Tend your markdown notes with WikiBonsai workflows from...
vscode-tendr

💐 Tools for Showcasing

Preserving Relational Integrity
Publish your notes as a blog or wiki with your favorite static site generator.

🪏 Tools for Tinkering

Documentation
This project follows the Unix Philosophy: Modular by design, built to work across browser, desktop, mobile, and headset. The goal is to further the state of PKM as a whole by building on "standardization bedrock."

So Go Tend'n'Tinker...

GitHub

Bonsais

Browse some example knowledge bonsais.

Markdown

Tend your markdown notes in VSCode.

CLI

Tend your markdown notes from the CLI.

GitHub

Tinker with projects and code.

Consult

Get help with workflows or tech setup.