Posts tagged “automation”

Every Version of My Obsidian Daily Note Since 2021

A template, a patched calendar tool, two iOS Shortcuts, a script, an overnight filer. Every rebuild took one chore off me. The newest one I just talk to.

I've rebuilt my Obsidian daily note over and over since 2021 and wrote up most of the rebuilds as they happened. This is the whole line, what each version fixed, what it left for me, and where it landed.

Replace Yourself Before Someone Else Does

If you're not slowly replacing yourself with AI agents in your own workflow, you're not doing it right.

The replacement conversation is framed as something that happens to you. Flip it. Here's what I've automated in my own workflow, the receipts, and the playbook.

I Spent Years Automating My Obsidian Daily Note. Now It Files Itself.

I fed it by hand for years. Now an agent files my day's captures overnight, and I wake up to what's next.

For years I fed my Obsidian daily note by hand. Now an agent files my captures overnight, tells my thoughts from my tasks, and I wake up to a clear picture of what's next.

From It's a Small World to the Haunted Mansion: A Blog Post Written in Claude Chat via BlackOps MCP

How a single conversation, no app switching, no copy-paste, went from breaking news to published post before the ride ended.

Obsidian just shipped official Claude Code skills. Here's what it means when your vault already runs a custom skill ecosystem. And yes, I sent this from It's a Small World.

Stop Hiring Cooks. Start Building Kitchens.

Everyone says "we can use AI for that." But if your plan is to do that reliably, repeatedly, and at scale, you don't have a solution. You have a demo.

AI for Creatives Isn’t Art Generation. It’s Operator-Controlled Tooling.

OpenClaw controlling Blender/Figma/After Effects is the real unlock for AI in creative teams: not generating art, but automating the click-loop work around creation.