Every piece, what it is for, and the commands worth knowing.
| Piece | What it is | Why you care |
|---|---|---|
| The vault | A folder of plain text files on your Mac | Opens in any editor, forever. No database, no account, no vendor |
| Claude Code | The assistant, in your terminal | Where you talk to it. Plain English, and voice works |
| Obsidian | A browser for the folder | Draws the map of who connects to whom |
| GitHub | A private backup | A dead laptop costs you nothing |
If all four companies vanished you would still have the folder, and it would still open.
Your 21 August question, how to ask Obsidian about old chats. You do not. Obsidian is the viewer, you ask Claude, and it reads the same files. No syntax to learn.
| Folder | What goes there |
|---|---|
40-Meetings/ | Every Krisp transcript. 117 of them. The heaviest thing you own |
10-Action-Items/ | Open threads, in a ledger. Things you are waiting on or owe someone |
20-People/ | One note per person, building up over time |
30-Companies/ | Same, for organizations |
50-Projects/ | Work with a start and an end |
70-Context/ and 80-Knowledge/ | Reference. Things that are true regardless of what you are doing today |
90-System/ | How your vault itself is wired. You rarely need to open this |
900-Bin/ | Where things go instead of being deleted |
today.md | The working surface. Where the day lands |
Sixteen installed. Nobody uses sixteen. Learn four.
| Command | When | What it does |
|---|---|---|
/daily-plan | Morning | Reads your calendar, mail and open items, tells you what the day is |
/sync-meetings | Every few days | Pulls new Krisp calls in. You can also just say "catch me up" |
/wrap | End of a session | Saves and backs up. This is the one that protects your work |
/prep | Before a call | Everything you know about who you are about to talk to |
The other twelve work fine. /help lists them.
/wrap at the end of anything. That is what puts your work on GitHub. Everything else here is optional.
Your voice profile. Built from your real emails on 7 August. Ask for a draft and it copies how you write.
Voice input. Talk instead of typing. It handles rambling fine and you do not need a good prompt first. Over-editing your prompts is the slowest way to use this.
The guard on your system files blocked changes instead of asking. Changed on 12 August. If it felt like it was fighting you that first week, that was why.