Tools
Give your AI superpowers with the Obsidian vault I run my whole business from
Obsidian Starter Kit v5: the AI-ready vault I run my whole business from. Your AI knows your context, does the work, and it's ready on day one.
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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.
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The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Obsidian
Obsidian is a free, local-first Markdown note-taking app. This beginner's guide covers installing it, creating your first vault, writing and linking notes, folders and tags, metadata, and the plugins to start with.
Tools
Give your AI superpowers with the Obsidian vault I run my whole business from
Obsidian Starter Kit v5: the AI-ready vault I run my whole business from. Your AI knows your context, does the work, and it's ready on day one.
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
DeveloPassion's Newsletter #214 - Timeline Mode and the Summer Sale
A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!
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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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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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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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Analog Reading, Digital Knowledge: The Full Pipeline From Paper Notes to AI Skills
I read books on paper, take handwritten notes, and turn them into connected atomic notes and AI skills. Here's the full pipeline, and the thinking behind each step.
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Collective Intelligence and PKM: Why Your Notes Are Smarter Than You Think
What do ant colonies, Wikipedia, and your personal knowledge graph have in common? More than you'd expect. Your notes are a collective intelligence system — and when you compose them as context for AI, they become something far more powerful.
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Never Lose a Note Again — Time Machine Plugin for Obsidian
Obsidian has a built-in File Recovery plugin, but it's pretty basic. I built the Time Machine plugin to fix that. Here's what it does and why you'll want it.
AI
DeveloPassion's Newsletter 208 - Claws
When AI gets its claws into everything - dpMaster evolved from tool to operational partner, Obsidian CLI REST MCP bridges vault and AI, complete CRM built inside Obsidian, and Time Machine plugin for note version control.
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How to Self-Host OpenClaw Securely on a VPS: A Security-First Guide
How to self-host OpenClaw securely on a VPS - run it on a dedicated Ubuntu server behind Tailscale with zero public exposure, hardened SSH, fail2ban, UFW, a non-root user, and monitoring.