Obsidian

“And I think memory is sort of in the shape where we've had a lot of people and a lot of people at other companies too are like, well, I set up an obsidian base or a notion area and I tell it how to basically build my mind palace and how to put, it's like, eh, …”

“I built like a little app just to make it so I could look at some of the information in a SQLite database more easily. And I ultimately built this entire presentation without touching any of it. And I was like, okay, I'm just going to present this to our CRO, …”

“They recently posted a job for a fifth person, and that thing got nine million views because everyone was like, what do you mean you've done this with four people?”

“They might want desktop versions with local data so they can, like, for example Obsidian is gonna become more of a contender versus Notion because the markdown files, there's a network effect on data. When it's local and you can analyze the whole thing, like l…”

“So the way I think about my agent stack is that every builder, if you're listening to this, you're probably going to need five different layers. You're going to need an agent harness. So that's going to be something like a cloud code, cursor, codex, or idea br…”

“The reason why people love obsidian is because of these interrelationships. The idea that you could open a file and then, you know, I just open this file and then I'm like, oh, interesting. I mentioned Greg Eisenberg. I can click that and it goes to that file.…”

“It can give Claude code, not only those files that it can read and access, but it can also give Claude code information about the interrelationships of those files.”

“It can start to surface patterns about what you're thinking about that you are not seeing for yourself.”

“If an agent has that context, you can, it can more effectively give you information about what you should do or not do, or, and it can more effectively make decisions on what should be in your calendar or not in your calendar.”

“Originally I was backlinking to general terms, podcasts or physical fitness or filmmaking. I'm realizing it's not the most useful way to use obsidian. The most important thing to do is to create notes for each of my patterns, theories, projects, or perspective…”

“And now instead of like managing an agent or talking to another human about working on something, I just focus on managing this vault. This is like the new source. I just continually try and make it so that this vault has all of the information needed so that …”

“So there's connect, which is allow, it allows me to take two domains and connect them using the vaults link graph. So I can just say I did one here. And I just asked it to connect filmmaking and world building. And so it goes through and it reads all of these …”

“I don't want an agent to write into the files. Like I could easily get it to do that. Like I could just say, like even here, I've asked it to write a description of some commands that I can talk about today, but I don't want it to make a file to do this becaus…”

“If I'm open AI or anthropic, I'm buying obsidian.”

“The fact, like, that if you are using, if you are serious about Using LLMs to take your ideas and put in and get the most out of them. If you're serious about building, you know, what people are calling a personal OS and you are not using a centralized note-ta…”