The new flagship course for PARAZETTEL begins rolling out from Friday. It's going to operate on a video-by-day basis (even for people who join anew). So every day throughout the period of launch you'll have a new email (as a reminder and a post here, so that you can learn more about the day's lesson. And in the lesson, there'll be something to learn, as well as interactive elements and a general task set out so that you can build out your system. (I'm writing now to everyone here who's already got a system for knowledge management that they're happy with...) You're going to be able to learn from this regardless of how fleshed-out your note-taking system is already. This course is built from learning the process of taking good notes myself, and now over three years of teaching it to others and learning where they struggle. A template worked, however it was cumbersome to setup and get started. The individual courses covered specific use-cases, but if you weren't, say, a student or a researcher, some might appear redundant. This won't be the case with PARAZETTEL Foundations. If you're looking to build or improve any type of note-taking system, you're going to be able to learn from this course. It's direct, easy-to-follow and high-clarity, a few things that the PARAZETTEL template didn't really have going for it. Please ask questions underneath the post if you have any, and remember that seeing as you're still in this group, you're going to get access with no further action required (I purged all the freeloaders)! I look forward to talking soon, and preparing for PARAZETTEL Foundations! -- Theo

After a workshop with Theo, Hephaestus, the Greek God of Engineering, is born as a Hermes Agent running on my Virtual Private Linux Server (VPS) provided by a German company Contabo running with a <50 mSec. ping on a server located in Singapore. I live in Thailand, this drove the choice of server location. The server with Hermes pre-installed was ready for configuration late last night. With a bunch of help from Claude Cowork running Sonnet 6 I was able to paste commands into an SSH session with the server to load my copy of the ParaZettel Vault, install a headless version of Obsidian, get Sync running, and configure Telegram as a way to communicate with Hephaestus from my iPhone. Now, in addition to generating and processing daily notes, my growing vault of interconnected wiki clouds can present its memory of atomic factoids and tasks to me while I’m away from my desk. The ParaZettel vault, available by Obsidian running on my MacBook and my phone is available 24 x 7 to a set of Claude skills, some of which run automatically each day. In addition to keeping track of tasks, I’ve found ParaZettle driven by Claude Sonnet and Opus have been a very handy 2nd Brain for me as I’ve discovered my learning process is sped up with the play-like act of exploring a wiki created automatically from various source material that interests me. Two days ago I had Claude Sonnet pull apart the transcript of an interview with an AI company CEO, and generate a wiki cloud. Then had Claude Opus analyze this wiki and draw additional links between it and the wiki cloud already in the vault. The wiki of each source is contained in a Project and the analysis process adds stuff to some 30 topic oriented notes I currently have as Areas. The source material lives in Sources. We’ll see how far this goes. I’d like the daily wrap note to contain an MoC and summary analysis of all the notes that get created or edited on a given day. I think this will be interesting. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this kind of note-making and consumption. I see it as a tool that augments the notes I actually write.

You can watch the recording here - https://www.skool.com/parazettel-community-4498/classroom/ab032e36?md=2bdc4ede366b4316b485e117e7293541 The workshop was fantastic, thank you for being there if you were, and if you weren't that's not a problem. You can catch up above, and join the next session in a week or so. If there's anything more you'd like to see from the workflow session that's coming next, leave it as a comment underneath this post. I'm thinking my workflows for PARAZETTEL, ProseLab and how I integrate all tools into one hive with Hermes at the centre. See you soon with more details! -- Theo

We've rescheduled the workshop, and now (when you head to the Calendar page) you can see that it's going to be tomorrow at 4pm London time. It's going to cover what I actually use for my local agents (in short, Codex), and my Cloud setup (Hermes, and will be covered in depth during the session), and how they communicate with each other, and how I split the work delegation. To watch, you need to have access to the Claude Code x Obsidian Course. Many of you will be already, but if you're not, you can buy in the Classroom, or you can head over to https://parazettel.com/courses/claude-code-x-obsidian and learn more about what you can expect (it's this workshop, all past ones and all future ones included for one payment). I hope to see you there at the session tomorrow - I'm looking forward to it! -- Theo