Connect: Building Interconnected Knowledge Graphs with Foam and Cursor

A folder full of Markdown notes often feels disconnected. Links between files are just plain text, making it impossible to navigate your thoughts or see how ideas relate to one another. This lesson demonstrates a powerful solution: the "Foam" extension for VS Code and its forks, like Cursor.

Foam instantly supercharges your Markdown workflow by adding features inspired by Zettelkasten and Roam Research. It turns your simple folder of files into a cohesive, navigable knowledge base.

This lesson shows you how to:

• Install and use the Foam extension to enable clickable wikilinks and hover previews.
• Visualize your entire knowledge base with an interactive graph view to discover connections.
• Combine Foam's organizational power with Cursor's AI by opening your knowledge base in a dedicated workspace.
• Use AI agents to perform high-level tasks like refactoring, consolidating, and cleaning up your entire collection of notes.

By the end, you'll have a streamlined system for not only capturing and connecting knowledge but also for using AI to manage and maintain it effortlessly.

Prompts

The next thing I want to work on is sharing scripts between users.

Please scan through my lessons learned directory. Look through all the files in there. If there's any duplicates, please consolidate and compact them into smaller files and just do a general cleanup pass through our entire lessons learned directory.

Commands

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