After the workshop yesterday, I was wondering if you guys had any further thoughts about how Claude Code and the power of AI might be able to help you with your notes? If you've not seen the workshop recording yet, it's here - https://www.skool.com/parazettel-community-4498/classroom/ab032e36?md=2d43a0046f3d4a7a9745294654050595. We go through a couple of examples, including making note properties consistent, and creating summaries of a certain topic from vault-wide references. Let us know below what you've learned and how the new tool will help you! -- Theo P.S. If you've not got access, you can unlock it for $29/month here by starting a premium membership - just go to https://parazettel.com/community/plans

HONESTY FIRST: Claude code wrote MOST of this post. Okay, lets get into it..... 1. Claude.md - The Instruction Manual A markdown file at the root of my vault that Claude reads automatically every session. It teaches Claude: - My vault's folder structure and type system (movements, recipes, tools, people, etc.) - Frontmatter schema and naming conventions (kebab-case properties, daily note linking pattern, etc.) - How my Obsidian plugins work (Templater, Projects, Periodic Notes) - My rating system, tag format, file naming conventions - Business/client project structure and SOPs This is the foundation. Claude doesn't need to "figure out" my system each time — it already knows it. 2. Skills - Custom Behaviors - /end-session - Saves session state when I'm done. Creates a dated session archive and updates a persistent memory file. Two-tier system: working memory (kept under 100 lines) + append-only daily archives. - Training Coach - An always-loaded knowledge base of my training context: athlete profile, injury history, programming principles, supplement protocols, active progressions, and datestamped coaching insights. Grows over time as we (Claude and I) discuss training. - Obsidian Nexus (the name of my vault) - Knows how to create notes that follow my vault's exact conventions (correct folder, frontmatter, wikilinks, type classification). - Social to Typefully - Drafts and publishes social posts via MCP integration. (this deserves its own post — I practically made my own social media scheduler in Obsidian...) 3. Memory System - Continuity Across Sessions Claude Code doesn't remember past conversations by default. I solved this with a layered memory approach: - Persistent memory (claude-session-memory.md) - Active projects, recent decisions, action items, session context. Loaded every session. Capped at 100 lines to stay focused. - Session archives (claude-sessions/YYYY-MM-DD session.md) - Detailed logs of each session. Multiple sessions per day append to the same file. This is the long-term history. - Auto-memory (Claude Code's built-in) - A separate .claude/ directory that persists key patterns and lessons learned. - Active Context files - Top of Mind.md, Body.md, and the Training Coach file are always loaded, so Claude starts each session knowing my current priorities, physical profile, and training state.

Here's the Claude Code x Obsidian recording - https://www.skool.com/parazettel-community-4498/classroom/ab032e36?md=2d43a0046f3d4a7a9745294654050595 The bundle is going to turn into a full-fledged course as well, seeing as there's so much that I didn't cover in the workshop (even though I went for 110 minutes!) It's included in your community premium membership, so you can be sure you'll get the updates as well. The first ones I'll add is talking about the Obsidian MCP to make interacting with files easier, as well as showing you how I build my website with Obsidian, and how to build a skill to query my daily notes. Thank you to everyone who turned up this morning! It's the best workshop I've hosted so far. Looking forward to the Writing a Book in Obsidian one in a few weeks now! -- Theo

Get started immediately - https://www.skool.com/parazettel-community-4498/classroom/7c5e57f0?md=f407906667a74b48b61e8f863d93813f. Like I said in the previous post, thank you for being patient with me whilst I produced this course. It's taken longer than expected, but I think that the output, taken as a piece of note-taking education, is one of the most useful I've ever produced. You'll be able to see my entire set of thoughts around idea capture, processing and use, with some hidden gems of analogies (again drawn from biology) emerging in the final lesson about 'Simplified Loops'. Please leave a comment here, or start a new thread, if you have any questions! I'll get right back to you. --- From here, we're going to be making a couple more structural updates to the community, and then we're moving into producing much more content - this means workshops, courses and other personal touches that, if you're already a paying member, you'll have completely full access to. If you're not a paying member, you can still get a cheap subscription by heading to https://parazettel.com/community/plans and signing up. This will mean that you get this new course, the PARAZETTEL Course, and all others, as well as what I've got planned, for a much greater return on investment than what it'll cost you after I've made these changes. Thank you again! -- Theo

Please accept my apologies for this taking so long - I thought I'd get it done whilst farming in Australia, but I always ended the day's work very drained and not in the right position to be able to record videos. But now I'm back in Da Nang, Vietnam, for the foreseeable future, to stop myself from using energy moving around and doing new things. So I'm putting the finishing touches to the lesson outlines this morning, and recording everything this afternoon. It should be in your hands tomorrow! --- Here's something else important you should know - we're rearranging the PARAZETTEL membership structure from once this course has been published and launched to everyone. You might have noticed the member count of the community going down steadily... This is because I'm following through with removing people on indefinite free plans as I have ideas to add more community sessions like workshops and Q&A sessions and more that I want people to get value from. So if you're a free member right now, paying the monthly fee that I've put up on the front of the community is by far the best way to invest in a membership going forward. There'll be another chance to join once the course comes out, but there's not much longer left for this option. I'm planning new information around this to come your way soon, where you'll learn and understand everything (because it's been so crazy convoluted for the longest time now), but you'll have to trust me and head to https://parazettel.com/community/plans if you're still wanting to upgrade for the best value possible. Thanks for bearing with me! I'm settled down and ready to start building new courses, workshops and free content now. -- Theo