Tools
Design Your Ideal Week in Obsidian
Big Kanban boards get overwhelming. I added a triage mode and an ideal week mode to the Kanban Action Planner plugin for Obsidian. Here's how they work and why an ideal week is worth designing.
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Personal Knowledge Management
Journaling Is the Most Underrated Knowledge Management Habit
Journaling isn't just about feelings. Your daily note can be where you plan, track your life, think in writing, and capture everything you learn. Here's why it belongs at the heart of your knowledge management practice.
Tools
The Complete Guide to Obsidian Automation - From Templates to an AI Operating System
Obsidian automation is three layers stacked on one idea: your notes are plain files, so anything can operate on them. Here is the complete map, from your first template to an AI Operating System.
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How I Turned 20,000 Notes Into Live Dashboards With Obsidian Bases
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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How I Build AI Skills That Actually Work
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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Obsidian Starter Kit v4 Is Here: Your Vault Is Now a Full AI Assistant
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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Don't keep AI out of your vault. Put it in charge of the plumbing.
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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How to Run Claude Code on Your GitHub Copilot Subscription
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 Live: The AI-Native Release Is Here
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 AI Agents Are an Anti-Pattern: Why Fewer Agents With More Skills Wins
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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Announcing Book Exporter - A New Obsidian Plugin
Book Exporter turns a structured Obsidian note tree into a real book; one manifest note, one command, EPUB and PDF out the other side via Pandoc.
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Where Your AI Prompts Really Go: A Practical Guide to AI Privacy
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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4 Years, 20K Notes, and AI Agents: The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 Is Almost Here
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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Why Your AI Skills Break on Other Machines
Your AI skill works perfectly on your machine, then falls apart for everyone else. Here are the twelve portability traps that break AI skills the moment they leave your environment, and exactly how to fix every single one of them.
I Built a Graph Explorer for Obsidian Bases. Here's Why LLM Wikis Need a Visual Layer
I built Graph Explorer Base View to solve a real problem: LLM Wikis generate tons of interconnected notes, but without a visual layer, you can't see clusters, gaps, or what still needs review.