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My Notes Became a Standard

For many years my "personal knowledge base" was a folder full of .txt files. Then it became a folder full of .md files. Then those files grew a little YAML hat on top. And a few months ago Google published a spec for AI agents that looks... a lot like that little YAML hat.

This post is about that journey, about what Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF) actually is, and about md-pdf 0.2.0, which now speaks OKF natively. It takes files that were written for machines and turns them back into something a human wants to read: a nicely typeset PDF, thanks to Typst.