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Similarly, it is particularly efficient at asking to come up with ideas for articles/content based on the things I have been consuming/thinking about.

As an example here, it has built a really accurate picture of me and my values. I have been consistently surprised at how well it picks up on small nuances and can flesh out patterns that even I (as someone who considers themself generally pretty self-aware) have not been able

Finished a guide on building a commonplace folder in @obsdmd and how I use mine with @claudeai to help with my thinking and writing. "The commonplace is a curation of your taste and thought." See some of the outputs from Claude, and link 👇

My @obsdmd article made it into the Installer on The Verge this week! Genuinely a bit of a pinch me moment.

I am writing and thinking out in the open about using AI to do better thinking, and how we can use it to help us get better at our craft. If you want to support this - check out the link below. This is where my long form writing on these topics will live.

My goal for using @obsdmd has always been to help me do better thinking. My goal for using @claudeai is the same. I don't want to outsource my thinking to AI.. I want it to help me get better and think deeper. Having a connection to a commonplace helps this significantly.

Secondly, it is much more efficient at coming up with ideas for writing because it has all of this as reference. I see people prompting "help me think of topics about X", and then getting shitty outputs. Here, very quickly it has given me six topics that are true to me.

This is useful as a standalone practice.. However I have found this very powerful to use with @claudeai - for a couple of use cases. Firstly, you can see below it has built up a pretty accurate picture of me and what I value through going through these notes. Over time themes

Literally anything goes in there. Quotes, book notes, video notes, podcase notes, thoughts/ideas, images, rough sketches. Below you can see an image I have saved, and created a connection with both a book I was reading at the time [[The Creative Act]], as well as another note I

I used to keep a physical "commonplace book". This was a place where I collected everything that resonated with me - quotes, notes etc. This art is something that can be traced back to medieval period. Fortunately, @obsdmd is actually a perfect place to keep a digital equivalent

A deep dive into my Commonplace Folder in @obsdmd and how I use it with @claudeai.. 🧵

For all the specific settings and a deeper dive into how I use my vault (too long for here) please check out the below :) I am going to be posting more deep dives into @obsdmd, tools for thought as well as using AI for clearer thinking - so be sure to sign up!

Custom CSS I only use custom CSS for one specific thing, which is the callout styling for my daily note.

Plugins I try and keep my plugin usage fairly minimal. Calendar: a calendar to visualise daily notes. Hider: for hiding parts of the Obsidian UI. Kanban: for visualising progress of my writing. Minimal theme settings: further control of the theme. Outliner: replicate

Fonts The main font is "iA Writer Quattro". For Monospace I use "Geist Mono" from @vercel. Quattro is one of the fonts that I find the easiest to read, especially when looking at bigger blocks of text. It is also one of my favourite fonts visually.

Theme I use the theme 'Minimal', and have been using it for the last six years of using Obsidian. it's super clean and "minimal" 😆 There are some extra plugins that can be downloaded to control more aspects of the theme also.

I get a lot of questions about how my @obsdmd vault is set up. Theming, settings, plugins, fonts etc. Here is a list of everything I have done to get my vault looking and feeling the way it does. 🧵

Feel free to give it a try! https://t.co/qg8cqfTHbx