Hi Dendron community!
I wanted to share a project that builds directly on Dendron's hierarchical naming convention to create a personal AI operating system.
The core insight
Dendron's dot-notation naming (user.*.md, proj.2026.*.md, meet.2026.03.*.md) naturally forms a queryable knowledge graph. An AI agent can navigate the entire vault using glob patterns and grep -- no vector database, no embeddings, no special infrastructure. The filename IS the schema.
A real vault's note graph. Each cluster is a Dendron namespace.
What the system does
- Morning briefings from vault state (calendar, stale follow-ups, project momentum)
- Email drafting in your voice (extracted from sent emails into a
VOICE_PROFILE.md)
- Ambient context from Screenpipe (local screen/audio recording → daily journals)
- Structured feedback that compounds -- correct the agent once, it saves the rule + rationale + scope, behavior changes permanently
- People graph -- 400+ person profiles as connective tissue across all data sources
The AI reads the vault at session start, syncs email/calendar/screenpipe data into vault notes via MCP, and maintains a three-tier memory system (working memory / context model / vault) -- all in plaintext markdown following Dendron conventions.
Links
The repo includes a seed vault, skills, a setup script, and a 9-chapter tutorial. Built for OpenClaw / Claude Code but the architecture works with any agent that can read markdown.
Would love to hear if anyone else is using their Dendron vault as an AI memory layer!
Hi Dendron community!
I wanted to share a project that builds directly on Dendron's hierarchical naming convention to create a personal AI operating system.
The core insight
Dendron's dot-notation naming (
user.*.md,proj.2026.*.md,meet.2026.03.*.md) naturally forms a queryable knowledge graph. An AI agent can navigate the entire vault using glob patterns and grep -- no vector database, no embeddings, no special infrastructure. The filename IS the schema.A real vault's note graph. Each cluster is a Dendron namespace.
What the system does
VOICE_PROFILE.md)The AI reads the vault at session start, syncs email/calendar/screenpipe data into vault notes via MCP, and maintains a three-tier memory system (working memory / context model / vault) -- all in plaintext markdown following Dendron conventions.
Links
The repo includes a seed vault, skills, a setup script, and a 9-chapter tutorial. Built for OpenClaw / Claude Code but the architecture works with any agent that can read markdown.
Would love to hear if anyone else is using their Dendron vault as an AI memory layer!