Introducing Lore
A smart and personalised learning assistant using AI to progress towards your goals
Lore is built for learners.
It uses AI to help you learn topics you are passionate about. It will also help you assess your knowledge and work on your weak areas. Basically, a personal AI assistant to make you smarter!
I wanted to learn a new language and even started on that journey. But, 2 weeks in, I lost interest and moved on to something else. Then, I started on some other topic, and it went on like that. It was never goal-oriented or structured.
In the meantime, I was inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLMWiki concept, which Google has now formalised as a standard called the Open Knowledge Format (OKF). It is a lightweight, easy-to-maintain framework for personal learning without requiring RAG systems. I wanted to leverage this and see how I can maintain my own wiki.
That was when Lore was born. Each topic you want to learn will be stored as a Markdown file in the wiki format, with links and backlinks, and tracked in an INDEX.md file. No database or RAG system to maintain or tune. Each wiki is small enough to be read at once without chunking and losing context.
Follow along on the portal and start with editing brain/self/goals.md file to indicate your top 2-3 goals, add some context about who you are and how you like to learn in brain/self/profile.md and use the /learn command to fetch the initial set of articles to start you off. Go through them and take /assess to test yourself and see where your weak areas lie - AI learns it too, and the next /learn will focus on fetching articles based on the weak areas first. You can also use /ask command to ask something specific as well. As a fun bonus, each /learn command fetches a random trivia for you to learn as well! You can keep this entirely local without sharing the details or a private repo on GitHub if you wish.
I have personally synced it with Obsidian to help read the md files better, but you can choose your favourite editor or viewer.
The best part - it is free, open source and ready to be used by you. The commands are created keeping Claude in mind, but you should be able to tweak them to make it work for Codex and Gemini easily. If you are already on Claude, get started right now.