LLM Wiki + NotebookLM, in one closed-loop Proactive AI
Knowly = Karpathy's LLM Wiki + NotebookLM in one closed-loop proactive AI for learning. Save anything → Knowly auto-organizes it, builds understanding of every source, and takes you to a personalized learning flow on demand.
Karpathy’s LLM Wiki + NotebookLM — combined into one closed-loop, proactive AI.
Two reference points and two missing pieces:
🧠 LLM WIKI — Karpathy’s recent idea for using LLMs to build a personal wiki from everything you save. Your saved sources can be transformed to real knowledge assets.
It's a brilliant idea. But you have to set up the whole thing yourself — pick the right tools, build complex RAG, connect everything, design the architecture and wire them up with proper AI Agents etc.
It’s too complex and difficult to do them all correct by ourselves.
📖 NotebookLM — probably one of the best implementations of “Using AI to understand things.”
But still, you need to manually do a lot of things, sorting sources, create notebooks by hands, do various organization, and also always think of the right prompt first to get the answer you want.
This is hard. When you don’t know what you don’t know, how are you supposed to come up with the perfect question ?
And always be the proactive one is kind of tired.
🔗 MISSING PIECE #1 — THE CLOSED LOOP.
LLM Wiki organizes information. NotebookLM helps you understand it. But those aren’t separate jobs — they’re two halves of the same experience. The moment AI organizes what you saved, the next thing you want is:
“Help me actually learn this.”
Today, users still bridge that gap manually.
Knowly closes the loop.
Save anything once, and the system continuously turns your saved sources into understanding and guided learning flow.
⚡ MISSING PIECE #2 — PROACTIVITY.
Current AI tools are mostly reactive. You always have to be the one driving the process: choosing the direction, coming up with the right prompt, and deciding what to do next. We think a smart enough AI shouldn’t always be waiting to be called.
Here’s how Knowly solves it:
📥 Save anything with one click from any webpage or upload sources from your local.
🗺 Knowly builds an understanding of every source you save — a structural outline of the key ideas, claims, and sections inside it. A ContentMap shows you what’s inside each source and why it matters to you.
🌳 Your library organizes itself automatically.
🔄 When you want to learn something, Knowly takes you into a Personalized Learning Flow — a multi-page journey of GenPages built just for you on demand, with clickable GenLinks that build brand-new pages when you click them. It’s not another “chat with AI” experience. It feels more like browsing a personalized web built only for you.
✨ Proactive — Most importantly, every part of Knowly is proactive. Knowly doesn’t wait for the perfect question or a perfect prompt.
Every source you save comes with suggestions.
Every Flow proposes the next page you may want to see next.
reminds you when older sources may be worth revisiting,
Based on everything you’ve saved before, Knowly suggests what could be the next most valuable topic or idea to explore.
and much more ...
Your knowledge doesn’t wait for you — it grows with you.
Hopefully, Knowly helps you grow and understand the world better.
“LLM Wiki + NotebookLM, in one closed-loop Proactive AI”
Knowly 1.0 launched on Product Hunt on May 6th, 2026 and earned 93 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #22 on the daily leaderboard. Knowly = Karpathy's LLM Wiki + NotebookLM in one closed-loop proactive AI for learning. Save anything → Knowly auto-organizes it, builds understanding of every source, and takes you to a personalized learning flow on demand.
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YT_Yang
Hey Hunters 👋 — I'm Yuetong, founder of Knowly.
The simplest way I can describe Knowly:
Karpathy’s LLM Wiki + NotebookLM — combined into one closed-loop, proactive AI.
Two reference points and two missing pieces:
🧠 LLM WIKI — Karpathy’s recent idea for using LLMs to build a personal wiki from everything you save. Your saved sources can be transformed to real knowledge assets.
It's a brilliant idea. But you have to set up the whole thing yourself — pick the right tools, build complex RAG, connect everything, design the architecture and wire them up with proper AI Agents etc.
It’s too complex and difficult to do them all correct by ourselves.
📖 NotebookLM — probably one of the best implementations of “Using AI to understand things.”
But still, you need to manually do a lot of things, sorting sources, create notebooks by hands, do various organization, and also always think of the right prompt first to get the answer you want.
This is hard. When you don’t know what you don’t know, how are you supposed to come up with the perfect question ?
And always be the proactive one is kind of tired.
🔗 MISSING PIECE #1 — THE CLOSED LOOP.
LLM Wiki organizes information.
NotebookLM helps you understand it.
But those aren’t separate jobs — they’re two halves of the same experience.
The moment AI organizes what you saved, the next thing you want is:
“Help me actually learn this.”
Today, users still bridge that gap manually.
Knowly closes the loop.
Save anything once, and the system continuously turns your saved sources into understanding and guided learning flow.
⚡ MISSING PIECE #2 — PROACTIVITY.
Current AI tools are mostly reactive. You always have to be the one driving the process: choosing the direction, coming up with the right prompt, and deciding what to do next. We think a smart enough AI shouldn’t always be waiting to be called.
Here’s how Knowly solves it:
📥 Save anything with one click from any webpage or upload sources from your local.
🗺 Knowly builds an understanding of every source you save — a structural outline of the key ideas, claims, and sections inside it. A ContentMap shows you what’s inside each source and why it matters to you.
🌳 Your library organizes itself automatically.
🔄 When you want to learn something, Knowly takes you into a Personalized Learning Flow — a multi-page journey of GenPages built just for you on demand, with clickable GenLinks that build brand-new pages when you click them. It’s not another “chat with AI” experience. It feels more like browsing a personalized web built only for you.
✨ Proactive — Most importantly, every part of Knowly is proactive. Knowly doesn’t wait for the perfect question or a perfect prompt.
Every source you save comes with suggestions.
Every Flow proposes the next page you may want to see next.
reminds you when older sources may be worth revisiting,
Based on everything you’ve saved before, Knowly suggests what could be the next most valuable topic or idea to explore.
and much more ...
Your knowledge doesn’t wait for you — it grows with you.
Hopefully, Knowly helps you grow and understand the world better.
Try it free today: https://goknowly.ai
Would genuinely love feedback from you 🙏