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A free community for users of Finn's Substack tools. Get more from StackContacts, Press and Pro Studio, share what works, and grow together.

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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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Hi, I'm Finn from Massachusetts. I'm a retired software engineer who apparently retired wrong, because I built a side business from $0 to $35K working about 4 hours a weekend over the last 2 years. I've been in Obsidian for 3 years, tried every vault structure known to humanity, and eventually landed on Kepano's approach. Now I run an AI-powered vault that tracks people, products, projects, posts, and support cases — basically my entire business lives in a folder of markdown files, which feels like it should be illegal but isn't. I'm a heavy user of Claude, Cursor, and local LLMs. What frustrates me right now is the content workflow from Obsidian to Substack — it was clunky enough that I built a local MCP server so Claude can draft and schedule Posts and Notes directly. Turns out a lot of other people hated that workflow too, so now I sell it on Gumroad. Nothing like turning your own annoyance into a product line. I saw Dee's Skool description and was hooked. This sounds like a great community.
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I'm a retired engineer who loves to work with data and build tools.

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