I've been working on my Claude setup for a while now — projects, scheduled tasks, a CLAUDE.md file that I've gradually refined. It started as another rabbit hole, but this one has held.
Every day, there's a small thrill when my Obsidian Daily Processing routine runs. It collates Voicenotes, Lightpage, Captures, and Telegram inputs — all into one place, neatly categorised under headings. One of my favourite touches is being able to drop an instruction directly into any note and have Claude act on it the next time the routine runs.
This morning, a note I'd recorded in Voicenotes for my book was processed, added to the relevant section, expanded upon, and linked to other similar ideas. All while I got on with the day.
This is the counterpoint to all the AI naysayers. Like the e-bike analogy — AI allows me to create even when I'm short on time. It captures, collates, and processes ideas when I can't. And it does it inside my main writing tool, not alongside it.
I'd drifted away from Obsidian once before — too much tweaking, not enough creating. Claude fixed that. It does the customisation and the organisational legwork, so I don't have to.
There is a magic to all this. Not because AI is creating for me. It isn't. But it is helping me make sense of what I'm already making — and that turns out to be the bit I always needed most.
Related: The Claude Rabbit Hole · The Obsidian Renaissance · What I've Found Using Claude · Why I Love Voicenotes · AI is Like an eBike