I've been using Obsidian again for a while now, but lately something clicked. I found Ev Chapman's videos about her usage of a Claude/Obsidian combo and the Hyo plugin she created. Watching her explain how she uses Threads to organise her thinking changed how I see my vault entirely.
Three Agents for Three Areas
Having Claude in my vault has been transformative. I'd overcomplicated my Vault and, in my giddiness, had created too many scheduled tasks running at different times, doing similar things. I've streamlined it all now.
I created three distinct agents, each focused on a different area:
- Woolf - handles all my writing and creative work, The Essence Map project.
- Fitz - manages work and other professional projects.
- Lars - takes care of home and domestic life, and personal projects.
Each one knows its domain. They have different instructions, different priorities, different ways of working with me. It's like having three collaborators who each understand their brief.
Templater and Folder Templates
I've also got Templater working properly now. Different folders get different templates automatically. When I create a new note in Tech, it gets the right frontmatter. A new note in Writing gets something else entirely.
It's one of those things that seems small until you have it working - then you wonder how you managed before. No more copying and pasting YAML, no more forgetting tags.
One Task a Day
The biggest change, though, was consolidating my Claude scheduled tasks. I had several running throughout the day - processing Voicenotes, handling Lightpage inputs, updating my Daily Note. It was fragmented.
Now I have one task that runs once a day. It does everything in sequence: processes Voicenotes, handles captures, organises it all into my Daily Note. Clean, simple, predictable.
I realised that Tana was becoming superfluous - Obsidian does everything that I was doing in Tana so my Vault is now my source of truth. I've exported my Tana data and moved my various logs over to Obsidian.
What This Gives Me
The whole setup feels coherent now. Ev Chapman's approach gave me the framework. Claude provides the processing power. Templater keeps the structure consistent. And the three agents mean I'm not context-switching between different modes when Claude helps me.
Everything flows into the Obsidian bucket like before, but now it's organised around threads of thinking rather than just collected and tagged. The difference is subtle but significant - my vault has become a thinking tool, not just a storage system.
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