Obsidian + Claude just killed the $20K/year executive assistant
Reads everything you read
Remembers everything you forget
Briefs you at 6am
Compounds for 6 months until your competitors can’t catch up
KJRainey shipped the cleanest walkthrough I’ve seen
Here’s the 4-evening setup I built on top 👇
Set up the stack like this:
> Install Obsidian → create 9 type-based folders (00 CAPTURE → 08 ARCHIVE)
> Drop CLAUDE.md into 07 SYSTEM - your model’s operating manual
> Telegram bot + Make dot com → 7-second capture from any device
> Readwise Official plugin → highlights pipe straight into the vault
> Claude Desktop + Filesystem MCP → Claude can read every note
> N8N on a $5 droplet → schedules the 2am process + 6am brief
First prompt to Claude:
> Read every file in 00 - CAPTURE/
> Classify each as observation / quote / question / pattern / decision
> Move to the right typed folder, rename YYYY-MM-DD-slug
> Add YAML frontmatter (type, captured, source, topics)
> Don’t paraphrase. Move and tag only.
After it works, tune:
> CLAUDE.md priorities + rules of thumb
> daily brief length (under 400 words)
> the “surprise me” connection prompt
> weekly synthesis depth (7 days vs 30 days)
> capture friction - if it’s above 7 seconds, kill it
> output preferences (tone, format, what NOT to do)
The numbers:
→ 8 minutes/day of capture
→ $0 in tools (or $25/mo for Claude Pro)
→ 4 evenings to build (~6 hours total)
→ Day 30 first surprise. Day 180 uncopyable.
- The moat in 2026 isn’t prompts
- It isn’t the model
- It isn’t the skill library
It’s the 6 months of structured context only you have
Full breakdown - my synthesis of @cyrilXBT, @damidefi, and 6 months of running this myself is here
Reply “VAULT” + RT and I’ll send you my full CLAUDE.md template + the 4 prompt files (nightly process, daily brief, weekly synthesis, monthly review)
Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.
Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”
✅️ La instrucción de procedimientos disciplinarios que han pasado previamente por la vía judicial
📝 Por José Miguel del Río Palomino
Disponible en 👇
https://t.co/eyEDG7ofng
URGENTE! Israel cierra el Templo del Santo Sepulcro por primera vez en la historia del cristianismo.
El cierre indefinido de la Iglesia del Santo Sepulcro generó conmoción en la comunidad cristiana internacional, al tratarse de uno de los sitios más sagrados del cristianismo.
Según trascendió, las autoridades de Israel dispusieron la clausura del templo, lo que implicará la suspensión de las celebraciones de Semana Santa y Pascua, además de misas y liturgias habituales.
Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba
I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film
As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes
It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.
But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken
Ahora me encantaría conocer el texto original de ese párrafo y cómo se las apañó la traductora para llegar a este. Desde luego, la traducción es un arte.
(De ‘El jardinero y la muerte’, de Gospodínov).
EDUTEAMS: una herramienta de inteligencia artificial para la formación de equipos diversos, complementarios y equitativos en el aprendizaje colaborativo
📝 Por Mireia Vendrell y Carles Sierra
Disponible en 👇
https://t.co/VkBIONotL2
I invite you, Prime Minister @sanchezcastejon to watch this 12-minute video. A father moving
among body bags, trying to find his child.
Why didn’t you condemn the massacre of 32,000 by Iran’s regime?
If you are anti war, stand with victims of IRGC war.
🧵 HILO: Las raíces NAZIS del régimen de los ayatolás
Lo que no te cuentan: el antisemitismo genocida de Irán no nació del Islam. Fue IMPORTADO directamente de la Alemania de Hitler.
Datos, nombres y pruebas. Abre hilo 👇
¿Impacto científico o manipulación de métricas? Un poco de bibliometría (parcial y a cargo de https://t.co/iLmOWSFvbP) sobre CREA https://t.co/B8Sf8hpYBX
Matemáticas, Pensamiento Computacional e IA. Libro cuadernillo para el Día Escolar de las Matemáticas 2026 (DEM-FESPM) x trabajar con el alumnado y donde las matemáticas son el motor esencial para comprender, modelar y crear tecnología https://t.co/QYe0ZDJJMB [Luismi Iglesias]