You do not need a database-heavy stack to start an LLM wiki.

For a small or medium knowledge base, markdown files plus Git are often enough to get the important part right first: durable, inspectable knowledge that can keep improving over time.

The honest answer is usually not a clean yes or no.

In the forex bonus world, traders often ask the wrong version of the question. They ask whether profits can be withdrawn, as if the answer lives in a single rule. Usually it lives in a chain of conditions.

A broker may let you trade with bonus credit. That does not automatically mean the bonus itself is withdrawable. It also does not guarantee that profits earned while using that credit are freely withdrawable on demand.

Most note systems are designed to be obedient.

You capture something, save it somewhere, add a tag if you are feeling disciplined, and trust that retrieval will solve the rest later.

That model is fine as long as your goal is storage. It breaks down the moment your goal becomes thought.

Search is not memory.

It is useful, fast, and often good enough to create the illusion that the two are basically the same thing. Type a word, pull up a file, recover a paragraph, move on. For a lot of workflows, that feels sufficient.

But the difference shows up the moment you need more than retrieval.