A practical guide for setting up Zettelkasten method in Obsidian
https://desktopcommander.app/blog/zettelkasten-obsidian/
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Obsidian
Obsidian is a very popular cross-platform note-taking application that allows you to use plain Markdown as a very flexible notes database and that I have somewhat begrudgingly adop(...)
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https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/obsidian?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
In December I compared Claude and Gemini head-to-head for use with my Obsidian vault. Claude won - partly because of Claude Code, which lets it work directly with vault files.
What I didn't expect was how much it would change my blogging process. Not just admin tasks, but the actual thinking - from sparking ideas in conversation to finding forgotten notes when laying out a post.
Latest update on the journey: https://www.ctnet.co.uk/claude-obsidian-workflow-pkm-pt2/
One of the principles I've built into my AI use is that I write my own literature and permanent notes, and I always write the first draft of any post. These are my "red lines" - things that stay human.
I'm curious: do you have similar boundaries in your knowledge work? Or do you think those lines are worth questioning?
My latest post explores how I've landed on this balance:https://www.ctnet.co.uk/claude-obsidian-workflow-pkm-pt2/
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Part 2 of my Claude + Obsidian journey is live.
Since December I've been using three versions of Claude - Chat for sparking ideas, Claude Code for vault management, and Cowork for the non-technical user. Each serves a different purpose in my PKM workflow.
New post: https://www.ctnet.co.uk/claude-obsidian-workflow-pkm-pt2/
From a programming podcast, but this episode is a complete geek out on paper indexing and organising notes.

Joël and thoughtbot colleague Sally Hall set out to find an answer to the question, what exactly are the differences between paper data structures and digitals ones?