I use Obsidian for my notes and I use Claude as an agent, right in Obsidian. I have a weekly plan and a monthly plan. Plans include projects (blog posts, newsletters etc) plus meetings I need to prepare for... I jot notes at the end of the previous plan (what published, infrastructure/admin work, what got deferred, my own capacity going into the next week). I sit down on Sunday afternoon and have Claude help me with the weekly plan, making sure that I am not forgetting things from the monthly plan. I used to be queen of the quarter used planner books.... Never really using then because they didn't work for my thinking/pacing style. This planning style/activity has been a game changer for me.
I use Evernote but I might have to come back to Obsidian just so I can let AI access all the files easily and do the kind of thing you’re doing with it.
I’ve been poking about in AI for ages and using it for all sorts of things but have only recently started asking it what it can do. Yesterday I asked Claude about skills. Turns out I’m already doing them lol.
Then I asked about workflows -that one was new to me. Usually the workflow is in my head, not documented on AI as a prompt.
Great stuff in here. Doing this can be an especially big help for personal life things that involve longer processes and decision making, such as the car registration thing, or moving, or trying to buy the best XYZ
I use Obsidian for my notes and I use Claude as an agent, right in Obsidian. I have a weekly plan and a monthly plan. Plans include projects (blog posts, newsletters etc) plus meetings I need to prepare for... I jot notes at the end of the previous plan (what published, infrastructure/admin work, what got deferred, my own capacity going into the next week). I sit down on Sunday afternoon and have Claude help me with the weekly plan, making sure that I am not forgetting things from the monthly plan. I used to be queen of the quarter used planner books.... Never really using then because they didn't work for my thinking/pacing style. This planning style/activity has been a game changer for me.
That kind of workflow really inspires me, Dr Jen.
I use Evernote but I might have to come back to Obsidian just so I can let AI access all the files easily and do the kind of thing you’re doing with it.
A good friend of mine e dropped an amazing prompt on me for writing email sequences. Long and detailed but works brilliantly.
The aha moment came when I fed the prompt back into Gemini and asked it whether it could adapt it for other uses.
Prompting AI to prompt itself!
The key is having solid input to work with and build on.
I'm still Iterating on this, but the results so far are blowing me away!
That's amazing, Les. I love how AI can help us learn to use AI.
I’ve been poking about in AI for ages and using it for all sorts of things but have only recently started asking it what it can do. Yesterday I asked Claude about skills. Turns out I’m already doing them lol.
Then I asked about workflows -that one was new to me. Usually the workflow is in my head, not documented on AI as a prompt.
Next I’m going to ask about agents.
Wendy, that's so great to hear. It's amazing how good a teacher AI can be when we ask it how to help us learn how to use it for various things.
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Great stuff in here. Doing this can be an especially big help for personal life things that involve longer processes and decision making, such as the car registration thing, or moving, or trying to buy the best XYZ
Thanks, Bradley. And it’s amazing how it suggests useful ideas from a simple list.