AI Zettelkasten (Lite)

Lightweight AI-powered Zettelkasten-inspired knowledge management system. Get started in minutes with Claude Code and Pinecone DB.

Examples

Add knowledge and create topics for your knowledge:

Ask what you've learned this week:

Ask what's in my Kanban task board?

...and many more use cases for knowledge and task management.

Getting started

1. Save ai-zettelkasten-prompt.md to your local machine
2. Add Pinecone MCP to Claude Code
3. Create zettelkasten-db index in Pinecone DB
4. Add a quote to your Zettelkasten. Type into Claude Code:

Please read /path/to/ai-zettelkasten-prompt.md and give me some Jim Rohn quotes in a numbered list. Then, I will tell you which ones to include in pinecone

5. Choose a few quotes to add to your knowledge base
6. Ask it to retrieve a quote. Type into Claude Code:

Ok give me a Jim Rohn quote about discipline

7. Add a link/bookmark to your Zettelkasten. Type into Claude Code:

Please add this to my Zettelkasten https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jll2k0gewo

8. Ask it to retrieve a bookmark. Type into Claude Code:

Can you show me my bookmarks

9. Add a task. Type into Claude Code:

Add task to make a todo app prototype, set its status to "to do"

10. Ask it to retrieve tasks. Type into Claude Code

Show my kanban board filtered by todo tasks

Alias commands

Need to quickly add something to your Zettelkasten or query it quickly?

Add .zettelkastenrc to your .bashrc, .zshrc, etc. and run:

# Quick add
zadd "Spaced repetition works best with expanding intervals"

# Search by meaning, not keywords
zsearch "techniques for better memory retention"

# Bookmark a URL instantly
zbookmark https://example.com/article

# View tasks
zboard "in-progress"

# Freeform
zettel "what have I learned in the past week? give me a succinct list"