Building a Second Brain That Actually Thinks: Claude Code Meets Obsidian

The vast majority of AI adoption conversations focus on large-scale enterprise deployments, but a lot of value is already coming from something quieter: small, task-specific agents built to support our day to day work. I built one of these systems by connecting Claude Code to my Obsidian vault. It extracts tasks from emails, assembles context before meetings, and checks consistency across notes. It wasn’t just search anymore, it could read the notes and do something useful with them....

February 5, 2026 · Ed Randall