# Obsidian Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Obsidian is a powerful, local-first knowledge base: it uses plain Markdown files for notes and links them bi-directionally to build a personal, interconnected knowledge graph.

Obsidian is a cross-platform note-taking application designed for building a 'second brain.' It operates on a local folder of plain Markdown files (a 'vault'), ensuring you own your data and maintain long-term portability. The core strength lies in bi-directional linking, which connects concepts using the `[[link]]` syntax, allowing you to visualize relationships via an interactive Graph View. With thousands of community plugins and themes, users can customize the platform for diverse workflows, from Zettelkasten to project management, making it a flexible and future-proof tool for serious knowledge workers.

- Official technology site: https://obsidian.md/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 6
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Taskless: I Stopped Writing Tasks and Let My Notes Do It](https://islamabad-rawalpindi.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_R83DVSpQNFA)

Taskless is a local automation that reads my raw, messy Obsidian thought-dumps and turns them into ClickUp tasks on its own, no manual task entry, no project-manager busywork. Live, I'll drop a real note dump into the watched vault and you'll watch n8n pick it up, the LLM classify each line as new / done / progress / ignore, and ClickUp create new tasks and close finished ones in real time from plain prose like "fixed the auth login bug today." I'll show the working n8n workflow, the LLM classification + dedup-by-hash steps, the execution logs as it runs, and the repo.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Islamabad - July 18, 2026 — 2026-07-18 — Islamabad Rawalpindi
- Public talk page: https://islamabad-rawalpindi.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_R83DVSpQNFA

### [Building a Persistent Memory & Stateful Second Brain AI Agent](https://dhaka.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_kSMaLnvvGGg)

Demonstrating context engineering in practice through Slatekore - an open-source starter kit that gives Gemini CLI persistent memory using Obsidian as the storage layer. 1. State Management Without Infrastructure How to use the file system as persistent state - your Obsidian vault becomes both the agent's memory and its knowledge base. No databases, no vector stores, no MLOps. 2. Context Engineering for Agent Behavior Crafting system prompts (GEMINI.md) and workflow files that define agent capabilities, constraints, and multi-step reasoning patterns. The prompt is the agent's configuration. 3. Tool Use Through Natural Interfaces Connecting the agent to real actions: creating files, managing tasks, building knowledge graphs - all through natural language commands backed by structured templates. Watch a stateful agent capture research, recall context from previous sessions, update its knowledge graph, and execute project workflows - without any model training or fine-tuning.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Dhaka 2nd Meetup: Dhaka Builds with AI! — 2026-02-07 — Dhaka
- Public talk page: https://dhaka.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_kSMaLnvvGGg

### [The Personal AI Assistant: When Cursor Meets Claude Code for Life Management](https://waterloo.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_Vw_KcSxNg0o)

Agentic coding tools are disrupting the way we write code. However, their potential extends far beyond software development. In this talk, I'll demonstrate how to build a personal AI assistant using Cursor and Claude Code that helps you manage your life context. This will include goal tracking, daily routines, and automated context engineering for your projects. You'll see live demos of: - Automatic context engineering. How your AI assistant remembers what happened 3 days ago and surfaces relevant context automatically - Goal & experiment tracking. Integration between your personal knowledge base and AI workflows - Morning/evening routines. Structured reflection processes powered by AI and grounded in Atomic Habits framework - Modular agentic workflows. Building reusable agentic workflows that accomplish specific goals and integrate into your personal productivity ecosystem You can build powerful, personalized systems that reduce daily friction. The key is combining Cursor's ability to query your notes with Claude Code's ability to follow complex agentic loops. I'll show you how to balance structure (explicit commands, clear data) with agentic workflows (AI figures things out) to create systems that help you get things done.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Waterloo — October Meetup — 2025-10-20 — Waterloo
- Public talk page: https://waterloo.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_Vw_KcSxNg0o

### [Talk to your Obsidian Notebooks](https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_SyRyq-oqKPw)

I created a Local LLM Plugin for Obsidian that lets you talk to your notes. I write a journal everyday and spend a lot of time copy and pasting things into online LLM's and cringe about my private thoughts being captured and stored forever. I wanted something that was more private and still had the capabilities of a publicly hosted LLM. The part that is crazy, is that I vibe coded the whole thing. I wanted to share the process, the outcome, and how local models for your sensitive data should be part of everyone's workflow.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Seattle – June Meetup — 2025-06-28 — Seattle
- Public talk page: https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_SyRyq-oqKPw

### [Enzyme - a context server from your PKM system](https://nyc.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_WS0CYHmFIio)

Enzyme is a context server that leverages an Obsidian / Markdown vault's metadata. It is interoperable with the Model Context Protocol (works with Zed and Claude Desktop). With it, you can query by tag, entity, or folder for your most recent markdown notes on the topic, and feed these to an LLM. I have developed Enzyme solo as an Obsidian plugin (where it cites its sources as block embeds) and have gathered feedback from a few users over the course of the past year. However, I use it daily, and have recently broken it out into an app that generalizes to Markdown vaults beyond Obsidian.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - New York City - December 2024 Meetup — 2024-12-12 — New York City
- Public talk page: https://nyc.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_WS0CYHmFIio

### [Beyond Linear Chat - AI UX Exploration in Obsidian](https://denver-boulder.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_pAVIn4Du3Wo)

ChatGPT and similar forces you to have linear conversation. You send a message, the assistant responds. But conversations in real life are multi-dimensional. You go down a conversation branch for awhile, then circle back to another topic, or explore a whole new area. And then maybe you synthesize across the different conversation branches. By using the Obsidian's (note-taking app) canvas we can enable this multi-dimensional conversational.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Denver - May Meetup — 2024-05-14 — Denver
- Public talk page: https://denver-boulder.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_pAVIn4Du3Wo

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