LLM Wiki: open-source app turns your PDFs into a self-maintaining knowledge base
tom_doerr · x · 2026-09-08
LLM Wiki, an open-source cross-platform desktop app, has racked up 17.6k GitHub stars by turning PDFs and web clips into a structured, interlinked personal wiki that the LLM incrementally builds and maintains.
Key points:
- Two-step chain-of-thought ingest: the LLM analyzes documents first, then generates wiki pages with multimodal extraction and source traceability
- Unlike traditional RAG's retrieve-and-answer loop, the knowledge base is persistent and keeps itself current
- Ships with a browser extension and MCP server; built on Tauri + Vite with multi-language docs
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