Designing a Personal RAG System

RAG/Retrieval/Knowledge

Notes on retrieval, chunking, indexing, and turning personal information into usable knowledge.

A personal RAG system should do more than search documents.

The interesting problem is deciding how accumulated information becomes useful context.

Retrieval before generation

The quality of the answer often depends less on the model and more on whether the right context was retrieved.

That makes retrieval design a first-class part of the system.

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How information can be captured, connected, retrieved, and turned into something an AI system can actually reason over.

A personal RAG system for retrieving, connecting, and reasoning over my own knowledge.