Most people use AI to write things. San Román argues they’ve got it backwards. The real power is using AI to read—to query years of accumulated notes and surface patterns no human could spot manually. He connected his Obsidian vault to AI and found insights buried across three years of scattered observations.
This tracks completely. The frame I’d sharpen: AI does large→small (compression) better than small→large (expansion). And the input bar is forgiving—messy notes with some signal still work. You don’t need perfect capture for useful retrieval.
“No human could read all of this in a lifetime. AI consumes it in seconds.”