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Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian

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Why This Matters

This innovative tool transforms Markdown notes from Obsidian or gbrain exports into interactive, visual knowledge maps, enhancing how users explore and understand their data. By offering a no-setup, browser-based visualization, it simplifies the process of creating dynamic knowledge graphs, making it accessible for both developers and casual users. This advancement could significantly improve personal knowledge management and collaborative research workflows in the tech industry.

Key Takeaways

Turn a folder of Markdown notes (an Obsidian vault or a gbrain export ) into one self-contained, interactive HTML knowledge map — a force-directed graph coloured by theme, a timeline you can scrub to watch the base grow, and a click-to-inspect panel.

Works with: Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Cursor · Gemini CLI · OpenClaw · or just run the script.

See it in 5 seconds (no setup)

A prebuilt demo ships in this repo — no notes to generate, no embeddings, no gbrain, no Python. Open the file:

open demo/brain-map.html # macOS xdg-open demo/brain-map.html # Linux start demo/brain-map.html # Windows

992 fictional notes across three themes (work · study · life). Scrub the timeline, press ▶ Play growth, click nodes, toggle filters.

Build from your own notes

python3 scripts/build_map.py < notes_dir > out.html --title " My Second Brain " open out.html

<notes_dir> = your Obsidian vault, or a gbrain export --dir <out> directory. The map reads plain Markdown: YAML frontmatter ( tags , created ) + [[wikilinks]] .

Dependencies are optional

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