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idea: your life is an operating system. vault is the database. AI is the manager that helps run it. how it works:
- you maintain a vault: journal, tasks, projects, people, knowledge
- AI reads the vault via MCP and understands your life context
- instead of generic answers - personalized help based on your data, with a pleasant response style and reduced restrictions
use cases:
- handling many tasks simultaneously
- mentally challenging periods
philosophy:
- action cures fear
- vault is your second brain, not a TODO-app
who it's for:
- you already use obsidian or are ready to learn
- you need a centralized system, not another task list
- you're a builder, not a consumer
- you're ready to genuinely chat with an AI (try starting with Gemini if you're skeptical)
this is the complete structure of my vault that I use daily. this readme is written in the same style I use for my notes I intentionally don't provide detailed descriptions of each folder, consider this a comprehensive starting point, but explore everything yourself also intentionally omitted is the finance management sphere, I use Firefly III for that your optimal structure will likely be different. always keep AGENTS.md up to date, it should always contain the structure as you have it. in the meta folder are my recommended templates - set up the templates and quickadd plugins some of them (like the journal) look too demanding to fill out. most likely, in the early stages you won't need half of this. recommended scripts are also there nearby, once you study the whole structure you'll understand where they're used. each folder has a brief description of what it's used for and example tags that I have set.
tips:
- keep everything in the language you know best, don't write notes in your second language for unknown reasons
- treat the vault as your second personality, if you try storing your secrets here, filling and maintaining it in the future will be easier
- don't demand daily journal entries and use of all folders you've created, change the structure, gradually you'll find the perfect recipe
recommended plugins:
- Advanced Canvas
- Advanced Tables
- Advanced URI
- BRAT
- Calendar (configure for your days folder)
- Dataview
- Excalidraw
- Folder notes (configure Key for creating/opening to ⌘ + Click)
- Image converter (set up auto-compression for images)
- Kanban
- Latex Suite (study its auto-replacements, sometimes they're non-obvious, but you'll get used to it quickly)
- Minimal Theme
- QuickAdd (pinned in Command Palette)
- Semantic Notes Vault MCP (BRAT: aaronsb/obsidian-mcp-plugin)
- Spaced Repetition (disable Notes -> Enable note review pane on startup)
- Tasks
- Templater (set up Folder templates,
/->meta/templates/templates/note.md, so all notes are created with a tags field) - TimeStamper (bind it somehow, set
YYYY-MM-DD -in template) - Waypoint (MOC that glows in the graph, I ended up not using it because I highlight tags on the graph)
my binds: (to bind CapsLock, use Raycast)
- Add internal link -> CapsLock + [
- Kanban: Toggle between Kanban and markdown mode -> CapsLock + M
- Reveal in Finder -> CapsLock + O
- Search & replace in current file -> ⌘ + R
- Toggle left sidebar -> CapsLock + ←
- Toggle Live Preview/Source mode -> CapsLock + S
- Toggle right sidebar -> CapsLock + →
- Undo close tab -> ⌘ + ⇧ + T
good luck.