Obsidian

My Obsidian vault has 61 notes in it — study notes, homelab runbooks, session logs — and it syncs between this box and my laptop. The only way to see what I’d touched recently was to open Obsidian and read Home.md, a hand-maintained index that goes stale the moment I forget to update it. So I wanted a small dashboard: recent notes, pinned notes, what’s still unticked. Local only. I didn’t write this code. I gave Claude Code the prompt and reviewed, tested and corrected what came back. That’s how most things on this blog get built now, and it seems worth being plain about. The prompt was: ...

My study notes live in Obsidian. My agent lives in a terminal. For a month those were two separate worlds: when I wanted Claude to clean up the vault, I drove Claude Code at it from outside — point the CLI at the folder, describe the job, check the result in Obsidian afterwards. Claudian collapses that into one window. It’s an open-source community plugin that embeds Claude Code inside Obsidian as a sidebar — the vault becomes the agent’s working directory, and the agent becomes part of the note-taking app. ...