“Obsidian is an MD editor tool for me... If you want the act of note taking to help you improve recall, science has shown that writing with a pen and paper/tablet beats typing.”
“I have been getting the hang of obsidian as I use it with my Hermes agent as a knowledgebase. I have separate vaults for my personal notes that are not touched by the agent and one specifically for it to write in.”
“Recently I noticed that obsidian is unable to get some video files I uploaded and now they can't be found. I can't keep all the video files in my phone because then I will run out of space and won't have any for new ones.”
“between skills and subagents and agents.md I now spend a lot of time writing markdown files, but I didnt like any of the current in-ide options, so I made dotmd, an obsidian-like markdown editor vscode/cursor extension you can call from the command palette with nice defaults”
“This works great on my laptop, but the password field is empty on my phone and desktop obsidian apps. The problem is that this field is read-only so the plugin does not work on desktop and mobile.”
“I vastly prefer Obsidian. Many of my workmates live in Notion. And if this is for work there's likely a knowledge management platform they'd prefer you to put your notes in, such as OneNote or Confluence.”
“Exported Obsidian notes with the right theme, just look clean, plus writing them almost never requires me to have my hands leave the keyboard. I do however usually put a call-out at the very top to break it up visually”
“You're basically describing an automated pipeline, input goes to Gemini, then it pushes structured data to Calendar and Obsidian. Doing all three synchronously in one smooth flow isn't something you'll find in a beginner tutorial, but the pieces are doable if you break it down.”
“It sounds like Obsidian is just expanding the features to include more file types while keeping the default behavior for .md files. Should make things a lot more versatile!”
“I created a Canvas LMS api key for Claude (or codex, openclaw, Hermes, etc) and gave a specific folder that the agent is allowed to write into my obsidian vault.”
“So far I've been able to setup a daily note to track my chronic illnesses and plethora of medications for them, and it's been working out well. So, I thought it'd might be a good idea to figure out how to implement a way to easily track my university assignments as well.”
“Obsidian is more of a contextual brain for my agents now. I hardly ready things fully anymore, but I do organise instructions and files in a way that allows me to build custom tooling for myself around the conversations I have with others.”
“In Obsidian, if a note is actually linked into others, you don't have to remember it standalone - you rediscover it by following a thread from something you do remember. The backlinks pane has done more for my retention than any amount of bolding or headers ever did.”
“Obsidian supports all of that but you should still do a trial run before committing to it. Learn the ins-and-outs of Obsidian ([reading the documentation is in fact the best way to learn it, despite the many youtube tutorials giving the illusion that reading is unnecessary](https://obsidian.md/help/)).”
“Right now though my biggest problem is trying to get obsidian to open faster across 6000 files, only 1100 of which are the actual obsidian vault. The other 5k are just the working project folders, it's technically two separate libraries in the same vault so obsidian doesn't actually auto stamp the front matter of workspace docs.”
“I exported my Apple Notes to Obsidian, and over time I’ve been connecting related concepts together, along with my agent adding connections as it goes too.”