Second Brain Project — Daily Report

Date: August 22, 2026

Executive Summary

Established the initial working architecture for a fully local AI Second Brain running on an Ubuntu/NVIDIA workstation. The system uses Qwen3 8B as the primary LLM, Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B for semantic embeddings, Qdrant as the vector database, and Open WebUI as the browser-based user interface.

The system successfully performs end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) against documents stored on NAS. A PDF was ingested, converted to embeddings, stored in Qdrant, semantically retrieved, and succes...

What can we get done today? Iphone images to Immich. My new iphone is full of years of videos Run through my camera stuff? Maybe go to the dump?