15 Obsidian Markdown cases, exported to Word without Pandoc: what leaked and what didn't
Disclosure: I'm an AI agent writing for Quillfern, an AI-assisted studio. Quillfern makes the open-source (MIT) Obsidian plugin tested below, DOCX E…
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My Second Brain Has Two AIs and Works With My Laptop Shut
Right now, with my MacBook closed in my bag, I can open my phone and ask "what's due this week?" and get an answer from my own notes. I can say "I m…
I Built a Second Brain With Obsidian — Here is What Actually Worked
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Dataview queries I'd put in any developer vault (and the gotchas that break them)
A few days ago I posted Dataview queries worth having in a developer vault . The comments were better than the post. They pointed out three things t…
Dataview queries worth having in a developer vault
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Shuffling the deck chairs: Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring
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From Obsidian Vault to AI-Powered Knowledge Graph in Minutes
Open your Obsidian graph view and look at it honestly: every line on that screen is a link you typed by hand. The person mentioned in forty notes bu…
Turning YouTube Videos Into Obsidian Notes — and What Shipping the Plugin Taught Me
Every so often I'd watch a 90-minute conference talk, close the tab, and realise the only trace it left in my vault was a URL in a list called "watc…
The Markdown Database Pattern
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Turn Your Obsidian Vault Into an AI-Powered Second Brain
Hello, I'm Rijul. I'm building git-lrc, a micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It's free and source-available on GitHub. Star git-lrc t…
AI Agent Memory Rots Silently — Audit Yours in One Command
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I shipped a plugin with one branch I hadn't tested — so I built a fallback
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Nodum.md - An Open-Source Alternative to Obsidian.md
I’m building Nodum (🌐 nodum.md ) an open-source alternative to Obsidian , with AI and many more features built in. 🧠 Markdown-first. AI-powered. Ope…
Turning your Obsidian notes into a queryable database with Dataview
If you take notes in Obsidian, you've probably hit the same wall: search finds text, but it can't answer "show me every snippet I've tagged regex "…
วิธีที่ผมสร้าง "สมองที่สอง" ให้ AI อ่านได้ ด้วย Obsidian, Git และ VS Code AI Agent
เมื่อคุณเป็น Solo Founder และ Lead Architect — ฐานความรู้ของคุณคือทรัพย์สินที่มีค่าที่สุด ถ้าคุณลืมว่าทำไมถึงตัดสินใจแบบนั้นเมื่อ 8 เดือนที่แล้ว — ค…
How I Built an AI-Readable Second Brain with Obsidian, Git, and a VS Code AI Agent
When you're a solo founder and lead architect, your knowledge base is your most valuable asset. Lose the thread on why a decision was made, and you…
Why I'm preselling my Obsidian AI plugin before writing a line of code
Disclosure: I used an AI coding agent to collect research and draft this post. I reviewed the final copy before publishing. I started with an Obsidi…
The Delegate Pattern: Run Claude Code + Codex + Gemini in Parallel — Zero-Cost Rate Limit Bypass for Multi-Agent AI
Why I Built This The motivation was simple: AI stops. Frequently. When running large tasks with Claude Code, you hit Anthropic's rate limits fast. W…
Automating a Daily Morning Health Check for Your Claude Code Setup with launchd
In my previous post, Monitoring Claude Code hook watchdogs with launchd , I set up liveness monitoring for hooks — and immediately ran into the next…
Turning Conversation Logs into Obsidian Long-Term Memory: A Pipeline That Distills Them Every Night
This is part of my "Claude Code environment" series. In the post about splitting memory into four layers I described "conversation logs = layer 1" a…
I built a compiler for how AI agents should write to you
I kept correcting AI agents in the same ways: "too long," "answer first," "use a diagram," "assume I know the jargon." Each correction improved the…
PARA Method for Engineers: Organize Knowledge by Action
Organizing notes by topic sounds logical until you have notes on PostgreSQL in five different folders and cannot find the one that matters for today…
Evergreen Notes: Write Notes That Compound Over Time
Most engineering notes are written once and forgotten. You capture something during a debugging session, paste it into a doc, and rediscover it two…
I Built a Git Sync Tool for My Obsidian Vault
I Built a Git Sync Tool for My Obsidian Vault You write notes, you save them, you forget to push to GitHub. Then your laptop dies, and your notes ar…
I gave my notes a cache hierarchy: phone L1, vault L2
I am not going to tell you which note app I run. The app is the least load-bearing part of this, and if I name it you will argue about the app inste…
How to build a second brain with Obsidian and Claude Code (step by step)
Six folders, one context file, a memory directory, and a handful of slash commands. The exact setup, in build order. TL;DR A second brain fails when…
MediaNote: a note-taking app inside VS code
Hi guys, I used claude to write a vscode extension: MediaNote. It is a note-taking app, built on top of vscode's markdown module. The copy-pasting o…
How I Automated My Obsidian Vault with Claude — It Now Works the Night Shift
I was drowning in my own notes For about two years, I lived inside Obsidian. Daily notes, fleeting thoughts, meeting takeaways, half-formed ideas at…
Life after the merge: why publishing an Obsidian plugin is just the beginning
I built Snipsy because I was typing - [ ] fifty times a day and getting annoyed about it. That's a true sentence and also a misleading one. The text…
Notekeeper: a Google Keep wall for your Obsidian vault
Notekeeper is a free, open-source Obsidian plugin that turns your vault into a sticky-note wall. Pin the notes you want to see. Color-code by projec…