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NewFifteen years of ink and paper—Why do I still use a fountain pen alongside Obsidian?
Notes on the tools I use and the things I build.
I write about Obsidian, AI, coding, and what I learn from using them in everyday projects.
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How I capture everything - on my Mac, iPhone and iPad
Ideas don't wait until I'm at my desk. Here's how I use Lemonize's capture modes, Pocket and the iOS share sheet to get ideas, notes and todos into Obsidian — and why Web Clipper still handles the web.
I have 994 permanent notes. That number proves nothing.
A knowledge system only earns its place when notes leave it — the output test I now apply to my Obsidian vault
Why My Best Productivity Tools Are the Ones Nobody Else Can Use
Custom software used to be a luxury reserved for people with a budget. With AI, a tool shaped exactly like my workflow costs less than adapting to a generic one — which quietly changed what I build, what I still buy, and where the line between the two sits.
The Inbox is the most dangerous folder in my Obsidian vault
Capture feels productive, but every note I save creates a future obligation. Here is how I learned to treat my Obsidian inbox as a temporary gate, not a place where ideas go to die.
I Built a Bridge Between Obsidian and Hugo
My Obsidian vault and my Hugo blog speak different dialects of Markdown, so I built HugoBridge — an Obsidian plugin that validates, transforms, and exports a note into a clean Hugo page bundle in one explicit command
Why It's So Simple to Vibe-Code an App Today
Vibe coding promises instant apps. After shipping Lemonize and MyAbonPlus with AI, here's why real AI-assisted development looks more like product management than magic.
I Built the Capture Feature Obsidian Was Missing
Obsidian never had a fast way to capture an idea from anywhere on the Mac, so I built Lemonize — one shortcut, zero permissions, and it now feeds Bear and DEVONthink too.
Obsidian' Doesn't Exist — It's Four Layers
What we call 'Obsidian' is really separate, replaceable layers — storage, format, UI, agent. Counting how many you can swap without touching the others is the real test of whether your notes app owns you.
LM Studio Bionic: open models finally get their own agent
LM Studio just turned from a model runner into a full AI agent for open models. Here's what Bionic is, how it works, and what it says about where local AI is heading.
The Simplest Way to Save AI Tokens: Make Your Agent Talk Less
Every AI session has a token economy: prompt, context, agent work, and the answer. I break down where the tokens really go, what Caveman actually saves, and why the trick works far beyond coding agents.
GPT-5.6 isn't the real news — the new ChatGPT app is
OpenAI shipped a new model family, but the real shift is the app: ChatGPT now bundles Chat, Work, and Codex — and picking the right space matters more than picking the right model.
How I built an Obsidian vault no single AI tool can hold hostage
CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, a one-page identity file, a skills folder, and a set of maps to my key notes — the whole AI layer on top of my Obsidian vault is plain markdown I own, not configuration locked inside any single tool.
How I Organize My Obsidian Vault With PARA — Sorting Notes by Use, Not Subject
PARA organizes my vault by how actionable a note is, not by its subject — and pairs with a Zettelkasten so the thinking survives the projects.
I finally ran an LLM on my own machine — and it changed how I think about owning my AI
I own my notes. I own my blog. So why does my data leave the building every time I prompt an AI? Running a model locally is the next chapter of the same old conviction.
What Things 3 Taught Me About Not Ruining Obsidian
Obsidian is powerful because it can stay simple: local files, plain text, links when needed, and just enough structure to keep thinking calm.
How I made Claude the librarian of my Obsidian PKM — the complete process
The exact pipeline I run to turn web clippings and highlights into atomic, linked permanent notes — Claude does the structuring, I stay the curator.
The tools I've kept for 5+ years
The tools that survive my stack aren't the most powerful. They pass one quiet test: ownership, reliability, and a clear way out.
How I use AI in my Obsidian vault without losing the plot
I kept AI out of my Obsidian vault for years. MCP changed the equation — not by making the vault smarter, but by giving AI a specific job with a clear boundary and a review step.
Coding agents don't need more power. They need rules.
A simple CLAUDE.md file based on Andrej Karpathy's observations about coding agents became wildly popular because it solves a real problem: AI agents are powerful, but not disciplined by default.
Stop using AI coding agents like autocomplete
AI coding agents become more useful when I stop treating them as smarter autocomplete and start treating them as delegated workers with clear inputs, boundaries, and verification.
Claude Code vs Codex: two tools, two modes of thinking
I stopped asking whether Claude Code or Codex is better. The useful question is simpler: am I exploring a problem, or am I delegating a bounded task?
I Replaced CleanMyMac With a Single free/$9 Tool
Mole is an open-source macOS utility that does the job of four apps I was paying for separately — for $9 once, no subscription. Here is why I switched.
How I automated my blog deployment with GitHub Actions
How I set up a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically builds my Hugo site and deploys it via FTP — zero manual steps, zero server management.
Why I replaced WordPress with Hugo after more than 15 years
After 15 years of WordPress complexity, I ditched the backend, the plugins, and the database overhead in favor of Hugo — a static site generator that lets me write everything in Obsidian, build in under a second, and finally own my content the way I always should have.
My productivity superpower
Discovering SuperWhisper, a voice-to-text AI tool that transforms the way you capture thoughts and write content by speaking instead of typing.
How I Built an iOS App with Vibe Coding — From Blank Page to App Store
The story of using AI tools like Cursor, ChatGPT, and V0 to build and publish an iOS subscription tracker app from idea to App Store.
I Replaced these four Setapp apps on my Mac with free alternatives
After years of Setapp subscription, subscription fatigue led to replacing four paid apps with free alternatives while keeping what truly matters.
Why Notion isn't my go-to tool — the long-term problem
Notion is a very popular productivity app, versatile, powerful, and beautifully designed, but long-term reliability and control over data matter most.
How I manage projects and tasks in Obsidian, complete process and setup tour
I’ve penned an article detailing my two-year journey with Obsidian, and I’m eager to further delve into my daily interactions with this formidable tool, highlighting how I orchestrate my projects.
Stop taking notes for nothing! How to transform your jottings into actionable steps?
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, we are inundated with a plethora of note-taking and knowledge-management tools.
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Apps
Small, focused tools I build to make everyday work simpler.
macOS · iOS · iPadOS · Available on the App Store
Lemonize
Capture ideas on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, then send them to Obsidian, Bear, or DEVONthink.
Obsidian theme · Free · MIT license
Suliworld for Obsidian
A warm, editorial theme for Obsidian: cream paper, forest green, serif accents, and five bundled font pairings.
Obsidian plugin · Free · MIT license
Suliworld Signifiers
Bullet journal signifiers for Obsidian, with any theme. Pick symbols, mark items done, and customize everything in the plugin settings.