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Jul 8 •
Start here: introduce yourself
Welcome to The Construct. This is a small group of people who look at Obsidian the same way: not as a note app, but as the place your whole life runs from. Work, studies, health, admin, a business, all of it in one system that makes things simpler instead of adding another thing to manage. If that's how you think, you're among your people. Most of the world doesn't get it. Everyone here does. I built this place because a vault is the starting point, not the finish line. The real system gets built over months, adjusted to your actual life, and that goes faster when other people are building next to you. One note about communities like this: the value isn't in the content, it's in the people. Everyone who's ever got something out of a group like this posted. Nobody who only read did. Reading gets you nothing here. So the first thing to do is say hello. Copy this, fill it in, post it as a comment: Hi, I'm [name] from [city]. I do [what you do]. I've been in Obsidian for [how long]. I want my system to run [work / studies / a business / everything]. The thing that frustrates me right now is [one thing]. When you do, three things happen: I reply to you personally, I unlock the free Obsidian + Claude Basics course for you, and the next person who joins reads yours and posts too. How this place works: - Stuck on anything? Post it in Help. No question is too basic. - Built something? Post it in Showcase. Screenshots looks prettier than descriptions. - Own the Evergreen Vault? You're a Builder: the Builder Kit and the live call every two weeks are yours. Your turn.
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@Finn Tropy Lovely to have another person that seem well versed with Local LLMs. And I might be interested in the Substack MCP as well... Happy to have you here :)
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@Sharon D Welcome to the wonderful world of Obsidian! What structure are you following for you Obsidian? Any frustrations or wins?
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First community call on 29 October. You pick the topic.
Thursday 29 October we do the first group live call. I'll build the whole hour around whichever topic wins this poll, so vote for the one you'll show up for. 1. Building an AI assistant (life manager) with Claude and Obsidian. Your notes as the brain, Claude Code as the AI, your email and calendar as the inputs. Short version here: https://youtube.com/shorts/U6nNviBL228 2. A look at task management in Obsidian: simple, advanced (TaskNotes), agentic (Claude Code and TaskNotes). 3. How to manage your finances in Obsidian. 4. A theory and structure recap: areas, hubs, projects. 5. For the content creators: how I built an AI video editing pipeline. From a raw recording to a finished edit: it cuts the fillers and dead air, then adds the animations, transitions, audio, graphs and diagrams. If your topic isn't here, comment and it goes on the list for call two. When: Thursday 29 October, 19:00 Amsterdam (14:00 New York, 11:00 San Francisco). Recording goes in the Classroom for anyone who can't make it.
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The irony of recently publishing a video on task management in Obsidian and then posting this is not lost on me
Last week I posted a video on how to do Task Management in Obsidian, and today I'm arguing why you shouldn't use them. I think there is something inherently broken about how we do task management. There's a few high performance, superpowered, motivated beings who manage to keep an organised list of tasks and work through it every day. Same people who hit inbox zero daily. Most of us aren't like that. Most of us are messy, procrastination loving sloths with bursts of productivity few and far between. I'm one of the sloths. I've started and stopped task management systems way too often. The list keeps growing, I stop looking at it because it hurts to see what's still open, and when I finally do look, most of it is already done. Through my work sessions. So here's the question I've been chewing on since I published the task management video: if so many people fail at keeping a clean task list, is the clean task list actually the best way? Or is it just the "passable" way, and there's a more natural shape we haven't settled on yet? Cars are a good example. They're all starting to look the same, not because every car maker developed the same taste, but because the wind tunnel keeps giving the same answer. Once you know the most aerodynamic shape, every car drifts toward it. I think knowledge management is drifting toward its own shape, and I don't think it has a task list in it. The way I see it, a task in Obsidian can live in three forms: 1. A one-line task, pulled onto the project page 2. A task note, with status, priority, subtasks 3. A work session, where the AI reads the previous sessions on the project and tells you where you left off The first two are explicit and satisfying to tick off. The third one is what I actually use. The tasks and their status get carried from session to session, so there's no list to maintain, no weekly clean-up, no thinking about what's next. Just a trail of work sessions until the project is done. Task list as drag. Work session as the shape with the least resistance.
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@Paul Hampton-Smith Wise words! Thanks Paul. I come from a banking background where we worked in the Agile methodology. But find that a lot of people aren't familiar with it so I tend to talk a lot about it without mentioning the buzz words. But yes, the sprints are essentially work-sessions, then you can add "epics" and "reviews" as part of the projects. Need to think on this more to marry the concepts better...
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@Carol Loughrey I think your approach might be the simplest and most effective one so far. Going to learn from that. Thanks for sharing! As for the weekly meetings, I've capped it to the first 5 people who signs up for the meetings, but will have a larger one starting next week! Keep your eye out for the community post where I'll ask what topic we will cover. Thanks for being so active! <3
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How do you do Task Management?
How do you use tasks in Obsidian? And how do you stop it becoming one uncontrollably long list? Every task system I have ever used worked for about a week. Then the list hits 100, it starts looking like my email inbox, and I stop opening it because it makes me feel bad. I just finished the video on how I do it now, and it comes down to two rules. RULE 1: EVERY TASK BELONGS TO A PROJECT No project, no task. If it has nowhere to go, it does not get created. The list shrinks on its own, because half of it never had a home. RULE 2: EVERY FINISHED TASK GETS A MOMENT OF REFLECTION Before you move on, ask: did I learn anything here I will need again? A process, a set of steps, a link, a way of doing it. If yes, that becomes a knowledge note that outlasts the task. Most tasks earn nothing. The ones that do are what make the next project easier. The picture shows it. Today's tasks point up to their project. Some of them leave reusable knowledge behind. Next time the same kind of project comes around, the knowledge is already there and the tasks start from it instead of from zero. POLL: How do you handle tasks right now? One question for the comments: What do you do with a task once it is done? Does anything survive it?
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@Pierre-Eric Pem I agree with you. The "every task needs a project" still holds however. For the tasks that doesn't have a project, create a hub or project for "Miscellaneous Tasks" or "Random Tasks". Another person in the YouTube comments had a similar idea to create a area/hub task dashboard to make the initial categorisation easier for these type of tasks. So you can operate on tasks on the hub level as well. But I'd still advise using work-sessions when you are working on tasks that might have some useful knowledge coming out of them that might make the future handling of similar tasks easier... Awesome question!
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@Julio Mendez So you are incorporating weekly reviews to stay on top of your tasks game? I have been playing around a lot with building a "task management" (calling it "Life Manager") with claude code. This setup works extremely well with tasknotes because how the metadata makes tasks easy to find for the AI. So I'm migrating to this approach... More to follow.
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More pics for the weekly note
I am looking for a way to add three more pics to the weekly note, and to show up on my yearly review I have tried adding more photos, but it will just add them on the same line I would like it to be a 2x3 image Is there a css for this? Thanks for any help
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Hey James, quick question first: how does your yearly note pull in the pictures at the moment? Embedding the weekly notes, a dataview query, or a base table? The fix for the yearly side depends on that. The grid part I can answer now. Put each image on its own line with no blank line between them. Obsidian renders consecutive embeds as one paragraph, and the Minimal theme has an "Image grids" toggle that lays that paragraph out as equal columns (screenshot 1). Six lines gives you two rows of three. If you're not on Minimal, a small CSS snippet does the same (I added my CSS snippet for resizing in the comment below). The object-fit: cover line is what keeps the tiles the same size when the photos have different shapes. Tell me how the yearly works and I'll help you out!
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My CSS for resizing and image organisation: /* Reading mode: standalone image embeds sit side by side, max 3 per row. A single image takes a third of the width instead of the whole page. */ .markdown-preview-view .el-p:has(> p > .image-embed:only-child) { float: left; width: 32%; margin: 0 1% 12px 0; } .markdown-preview-view .el-p:has(> p > .image-embed:only-child) img { width: 100%; height: 220px; object-fit: cover; border-radius: 6px; display: block; } /* Anything that is not an image starts a fresh row below the pictures */ .markdown-preview-view .markdown-preview-section > div:not(:has(> p > .image-embed:only-child)) { clear: both; } /* Multiple pictures: each embed on its own line, NO blank line between them. Reading mode: consecutive embed lines render as one paragraph, and Minimal's built-in "Image grids" option lays it out as an equal-column grid. Only the tile sizing is set here. */ .markdown-preview-view p:has(> .image-embed ~ .image-embed) > .image-embed img { width: 100%; height: 300px !important; object-fit: cover; border-radius: 6px; } /* Live preview: each embed is its own editor line. The line becomes an inline block so consecutive image lines sit side by side, three per row. Trade-off: CodeMirror moves the cursor by visual row, so up/down arrows treat the row as one line; use left/right to reach the other pictures. DOM: .cm-line > .image-embed > .image-wrapper (inline-flex) > img, with <img class="cm-widgetBuffer"> around the widget (never size those). */ .markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-line:has(> .image-embed):not(:has(.list-bullet)) { display: inline-block; width: 32%; margin: 0 1% 8px 0; padding: 0; vertical-align: top; } .markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-line:has(> .image-embed):not(:has(.list-bullet)) > .image-embed { display: block; width: 100%; } .markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-line:has(> .image-embed):not(:has(.list-bullet)) > .image-embed > .image-wrapper { display: block; width: 100%; } .markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-line:has(> .image-embed):not(:has(.list-bullet)) > .image-embed img {
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