Maps of Content That Keep Themselves Up to Date

Author: Daniel Zhou · Date: October 20, 2026

A Map of Content, or MOC, is a note that helps you navigate other notes about a subject. Instead of searching through everything you've ever written, you open one place that points you toward the useful parts.

It's a popular way of organizing knowledge in the Obsidian community. The Obsidian Hub, for example, uses MOCs to help people browse community plugins and resources by category. A personal MOC might collect your notes about gardening, parenting, or learning a programming language.

In Mikipage, a Miki page can serve the same purpose. You describe what it should cover, and AI finds the relevant notes and builds the overview. As you keep writing, background AI sweeps bring it up to date.

You write the notes. The map gets maintained for you.

What makes a MOC useful

A MOC is more than a list of search results. It gives a subject some shape.

Imagine a MOC called “Learning to garden.” It might have sections for soil, watering, seasonal planting, and experiments worth repeating. Each section links to the relevant notes, with a few sentences explaining what they cover or why they matter. When you come back after a month, you have somewhere sensible to start.

The Obsidian community's explanation of MOCs describes this role well: a starting point for a topic, with related notes arranged into a meaningful structure. The method works alongside folders and tags, and a note can appear in several maps.

That last part matters. A note about growing tomatoes with your children might belong in both “Gardening” and “Activities with the kids.” Each map gives you a different reason to find the same note again.

The recurring work behind the map

Building the first MOC can be satisfying. You read your notes, notice connections, and decide how you understand a subject. That thinking has value.

Keeping every map current is a different kind of work.

Every new note raises the same questions: which maps should include it? Where does the link go? Does the overview need updating? Did you remember the other two maps it belongs to?

Adding one note to one MOC is easy enough. Doing it repeatedly across many notes and many maps becomes boring. Eventually the map misses things, or maintaining it takes time you wanted to spend writing and using your notes.

Obsidian has plugins and query-based approaches that can automate parts of this. The appeal of Mikipage is that you can describe what belongs in ordinary language and let AI handle both finding the notes and writing the overview.

A Miki page is a MOC maintained by AI

Create a page called “Learning to garden” and give it instructions like:

Collect my gardening notes. Organize them by soil, watering, planting, and experiments. Summarize what I've learned, highlight open questions, and link back to the source notes.

Those instructions describe the map you want. AI searches your notes, judges which ones fit, and writes the page from them, with citations back to the originals.

The page has two views. Page gives you the readable overview. Notes shows the collection behind it, so you can browse the source material directly. Your original notes stay as you wrote them.

One note can contribute to several pages. Your tomato-growing note can inform the gardening overview and the family activities page without being copied or manually linked into both. Each page uses it according to its own instructions.

You still decide what a page is for. If AI misses an important note, you can pin it. If the overview keeps emphasizing the wrong things, refine the instructions. You give the map its purpose; AI does the recurring mapping and writing.

Write notes, create a page, let the sweeper catch up

The everyday workflow is simple:

Write your notes. Capture the observation, conversation, or idea while it's fresh.
Create a Miki page with a title and instructions describing what you want to collect.
Keep writing. The next free background AI sweep finds relevant new material and refreshes the page.

You can create the page after you've already accumulated notes. It can find relevant material you wrote before the page existed, too.

We currently offer free background sweeps roughly every 6–12 hours, including on the Free plan. They use no AI credits. That's the default under Account → AI Settings → Automatic Refresh All; choosing Manual opts out. A newly created page starts empty until a sweep or a refresh writes it, so updates happen periodically rather than the instant you save a note.

We intend to keep free sweeps beyond alpha. Our plan is to run the sweeper on open-weight AI models we host ourselves, making the ongoing work affordable without charging users for every background update. That hosting change is still planned; availability and frequency may change. You don't need to host anything yourself.

Want the updated map sooner?

Click Refresh on the page to run AI before the next free sweep, using your credits. You're asking AI to do the mapping now; you don't have to add the links yourself.

A small incremental update can cost just a few credits. All paid plans come with free AI credits you can use for these on-demand refreshes. We'll add the allowance details soon.

For routine upkeep, you can simply wait for the free sweep. When you need the overview sooner, using a few of your included credits can save a round of sorting, linking, and rewriting.

The reason I want this is straightforward: I like having a map of what I know. I don't want every new thought to come with several filing tasks. With Miki pages, I can write the note and let it find its way into the maps where it will be useful.