Ask Claude

For the first time, I have been exploring Claude and linking it to Obsidian, and it feels like opening the door to an entirely new way of working with my notes. I have been using Evernote and Apple Notes for a long time, and I have found it difficult to interrogate my notes and find what I am looking for. Evernote has its AI features, but I haven’t found them very useful, and Siri is not yet up to the job. Obsidian has always been a powerful place to collect information, ideas, and personal reflections, but the addition of Claude brings intelligence and conversation to that knowledge base. Instead of manually searching through hundreds of notes, I can ask questions in plain English and have Claude find connections between ideas I may have forgotten. It can summarise long notes, suggest links between related topics, and help organise information into meaningful structures.

I hope the integration will also be useful for personal projects. Claude can draft documents, create action lists, and turn rough ideas into polished content, drawing on information already stored in Obsidian. It effectively becomes a personal research assistant that understands the context of my notes. What excites me most is the possibility of building a personal knowledge base or personal Wiki, a place where years of accumulated knowledge become searchable, connected, and genuinely useful. Rather than simply storing information, I now have a conversation with Claude and uncover insights I might otherwise miss.