The four principles of owned knowledge

Farzapedia champions four crucial properties of modern knowledge engineering:

• Explicit: The memory artifact is human-readable, navigable, and fully inspectable. There are no opaque vector embeddings or proprietary database formats.
• Yours (Local First): All data lives securely on your local hard drive under your control. No vendor lock-in or subscription APIs.
• File Over App: Universal, standardized Markdown files mean your second brain is completely independent of any single app or operating system.
• BYOAI (Bring Your Own AI): A flat directory of clean files allows you to plug in any LLM agent (Claude, OpenAI, Codex) to query, write, or refactor your knowledge base without altering the underlying data.