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Obsidian + AI
How to build your own knowledge base on Obsidian with an AI assistant — from zero to working rhythm. Best read in order: each post builds on the previous.
8 posts · best read in order
- 01 Building a Personal Knowledge Base on Obsidian + AI: My Approach How I keep notes across multiple projects at once — no cloud services, with an AI helper that lives on my laptop. Plain words for non-technical people.
- 02 CLAUDE.md and memory: how the AI remembers us How to make the AI remember your name, your projects and your rules — between sessions, without pasting context every single time. In plain words.
- 03 Git without the terror: a safe copy of our vault online How to make a private copy of your notes on GitHub via the Obsidian Git plugin — no terminal, no fear. Step by step, for non-technical people.
- 04 Security: what we DON'T put in the vault 4 categories of data that should never end up in your Obsidian vault. Anthropic's privacy policy in plain words + alternatives for passwords and client NDAs.
- 05 Sync between laptop and phone: 3 options Obsidian Sync, GitHub-based, or self-hosted via Tailscale? A comparison of three working options for syncing your vault between laptop and phone — pros, cons, and prices.
- 06 The plugins I actually use No cargo cult: 9 Obsidian plugins that genuinely save time every day, plus what NOT to install. Tested on a vault with hundreds of files and a dozen projects.
- 07 Templater: our vault as an operating system How to turn your Obsidian vault into a working system through templates: daily note, meeting notes, project setup, post draft. Concrete templates + how I build them.
- 08 Daily + Weekly ritual: how to keep the vault alive 10 minutes a day + 30 minutes a week. A concrete ritual that keeps your vault from turning into a graveyard of 500 notes you never open.