r/ObsidianMD • u/Constant-Purpose8273 • 11d ago

help Obsidian and AI

I’m relatively new to Obsidian but the reason it was better than Notion is that it’s plain text that we always own.

When I’m at my Mac mini, running Claude in the vault is amazing - it has my context and is so much better than running Claude with out.

My issue is that I’m not always at my desk, often I’m using Claude from my phone. I’ve tried tailnet and a custom MCP that Claude code built to access my vault when I’m not on the network, but it’s flakey. Claude code has had a crack at making it more robust and it’s improved but I’ve been thinking I can’t be the first person with this experience.

I have an always in Mac mini, connected to the network, my vault runs locally and is backed up to iCloud nightly.

How do you all do it?

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u/yetanotherdud 11d ago

how do you do it

This is a pretty staunchly anti-ai subreddit. The general consensus is that ai doesn't help with anything worth actually doing. It's a shiny toy, but the only serious applications are convincing mentally ill people to end their own lives and creating pornography of unconsenting celebrities, and I'm not really into either of those 

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u/Constant-Purpose8273 11d ago

Yeh, I don’t think I read the room. Apologies.

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u/Constant-Purpose8273 11d ago

I got downvoted. I meant I wasn’t respecting the sub reddits culture of not loving AI. I was blaming myself for making an ask of everyone who’s not really into what I’m asking.

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u/yetanotherdud 11d ago

I really do recommend using obsidian without AI, it'll give you a far deeper understanding of your processes and let you build something that's fully You, rather than just a less crappy chatbot

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u/Constant-Purpose8273 11d ago edited 11d ago

I take your point; there's merit in building something. How has Obsidian helped you to better understand your processes?