Posts tagged “obsidian”

The Work Starts When the Thought Does

An autonomous SDLC where a note fires a Claude session, and the pull request is waiting when I get home.

Self-healing software survives its bugs without changing a line. What I run against my projects changes the source. Logging the defect is what fires the work, and most days the completion email is the entirety of my involvement.

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.

I Track Every Workout By Talking To My Phone. Here Is The System.

I sit on the chest press machine, phone in hand, and dictate one sentence to Claude. The set is logged. The Apple Watch data fills itself in. Here is how skills and brains turned my gym session into a queryable memory.

Your Obsidian Vault Is Full of Fossils.

Your brain rewrites memories every day. Your Obsidian vault never gets the chance.

If you use Obsidian, you have a daily note ritual. Open today's note. Pull up yesterday's. Copy the unfinished tasks forward. The daily note is supposed to be a living document. In practice, it's a stack of fossils you maintain by hand.

Personal Second Brains Are Step One. Operational Second Brains Are The Actual Destination.

Every few months a new "second brain" build hits X. The pattern is real, the folder taxonomies are getting sharper. But every one of them stops in the same place: a markdown file. Here's the wall.

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 Giving Claude a Static Doc. Give It a Brain.

Brain turns any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base any agent can read, any agent can update, and you can have as many as you need.

Brain is a new BlackOps feature that compiles an entire Obsidian folder into a single context note your Claude Projects can read through MCP. No RAG. No scripts. Just everything Claude needs, in one place.

Your AI Agent Already Had File Access. Here's Why Obsidian CLI Changes Everything Anyway.

Obsidian 1.12 shipped a CLI. The internet yawned. Agents could already read files. They're missing the point entirely.

How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

Step-by-step guide to automatically adding current weather, sunrise, sunset, and moon phases to your Obsidian daily note using iOS Shortcuts and wttr.in API integration.

How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today's Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

Master iOS Shortcuts to add real-time local weather data to your Obsidian daily note with custom emoji mapping, location detection, and automated template insertion.

Automating My Obsidian Daily Note

Learn how to automate daily note creation in Obsidian using iOS Shortcuts with templates, calendar integration, and scheduled automation for seamless morning workflows.

How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note

Automate meeting imports from Outlook to Obsidian daily notes using icalBuddy and Templater. Never manually copy calendar events again with this macOS workflow solution.

How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note

Build a Dataview query to surface your latest Readwise highlights in Obsidian daily notes. Automatically review book highlights with custom formatting and date-based filtering.

First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin

Complete review of the official Readwise Obsidian plugin featuring automatic syncing, custom formatting, backlinks, and spaced repetition to transform reading highlights into knowledge.

My Obsidian Daily Note Template

A complete walkthrough of my Obsidian daily note template with dynamic task tracking, automated workflows, and Dataview queries to build a knowledge base from daily work.