Using AI for knowledge work — practical writing on LLMs, AI agents, Claude, and AI-powered workflows in Obsidian and beyond.
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Knowii Voice AI 0.8.0 is out. Drop audio or video files onto the app and they come out as text, the transcribe CLI now ships in every installer, and transcriptions come out cleaner thanks to word replacements, phonetic fixes and filler word removal. Everything still runs entirely on your machine.
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A color-coded status line for Claude Code showing context, git, session cost, and the rate limits Anthropic doesn't surface — including per-model weekly caps.
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Knowii Voice AI 0.7.0 is out, and it makes voice typing rock-solid on Linux. Reliable global shortcuts on GNOME, KDE, and Hyprland, correct keyboard layouts on Wayland, GPU acceleration out of the box, plus quality-of-life improvements for every platform.
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Obsidian Bases turn notes you already have into live dashboards from their properties - no spreadsheets, no data entry. A Base is a lens, only as sharp as the metadata underneath. Here's how I run it over 20,000 notes.
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A 5-step recipe for turning any repeatable process into a reusable AI agent skill. Do, Codify, Run, Iterate, Skillify. The first four come from Evelyn Chapman. The fifth is what turns a process note into actual automation.
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After 4 years of building, Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is out and it's fully AI-enabled. Receptionist routing, dozens of specialized agents, hundreds of AI skills, LLM Wikis, the new Graph Explorer plugin, and an identity system that teaches AI who you are.
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The standard 'keep AI away from your vault' advice solves the wrong problem. AI doesn't belong outside your knowledge base; it belongs inside, in charge of the plumbing while you stay in charge of the thinking. Here's the mindset and the structure that make that work.
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A 15-minute setup that wires Claude Code to GitHub Copilot's backend through a local LiteLLM proxy. No Anthropic plan needed.
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Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is out. Hundreds of AI skills, dozens of agents, persistent memory, LLM Wikis, a CLI, an MCP server, and a brand-new plugin that powers it all.
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Heavy specialized AI agents are an anti-pattern. Fewer agents with deep skill libraries beat them on every axis that matters: cognitive load, flexibility, context budget, determinism, and maintenance
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Most people send sensitive prompts to AI tools without knowing where that data ends up. Here's what really happens, why the rules differ wildly per tier, and what to pay attention to.
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The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 is coming. AI handles the plumbing; you do the thinking. Full AI-enabled Knowledge Management with hundreds of skills, dozens of agents, a CLI, an MCP server, and more. Lock in the current price before it goes up.
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