New to Obsidian?
Start with Obsidian Basics in the sidebar. Six short pages — markdown, links, tags, the mobile app, your Syncthing setup.
Welcome to your Obsidian Academy
This site teaches you — Justin — how to get the most out of the Obsidian setup you just built. It’s written specifically for your vault at C:\Vault\WhittechAI, your Galaxy S26+, your ZenBook A16, and the 7 skills you deployed in ~/.claude/skills/.
It’s not a generic Obsidian tutorial. The examples reference your actual folders. The screenshots come from your actual setup. When a workflow says “your inbox”, it means 00-Inbox/ in your vault — not somebody else’s.
How to read this site
Section titled “How to read this site”Already comfortable?
Jump straight to Daily Driver — the morning ritual that powers everything else.
Want power-user tricks?
The Bonus Workflows section has 8 patterns from the wider Obsidian community — Zettelkasten, Dataview dashboards, GTD, and more.
Setup questions?
Setup & Stack documents your specific deployment — Syncthing, nano-banana, mobile sync, gemini-cli quirks.
The stack at a glance
Section titled “The stack at a glance”| Layer | What it is | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Vault | Your knowledge base — plain markdown files | C:\Vault\WhittechAI |
| Obsidian | The editor and viewer for that vault | Desktop + Galaxy S26+ |
| Sync | Syncthing keeps phone and PC identical | LAN (IPv6 direct) |
| Claude Code | Runs the skills that automate workflows | Your desktop terminal |
| Skills | Plain-text instructions Claude follows | ~/.claude/skills/ |
| MCP | Bridge between Claude and the vault | Local REST API plugin |
| Image gen | Nano-banana via Gemini CLI for visuals | Free Gemini API tier |
The 10 core workflows
Section titled “The 10 core workflows”Ordered by start here first:
1. Daily Driver Morning daily-note builder — the spine of the whole system
2. Inbox Zero Triage everything in 00-Inbox/
3. Prep-for One-page briefing on a person before a call
4. Meeting Machine Voice memos or raw notes → structured meeting note
5. Content Engine Draft a blog post + auto-generate illustrations
6. Weekly Review Sunday synthesis of the past 7 days
7. Research Synthesizer Literature-review style MOC from raw clips
8. Visual Journal One AI-generated image per day of your year
9. Spaced Repetition Auto-flashcards from #learn tagged notes
10. MOC Maintainer Weekly rebuild of folder index notes
One rule. Don’t try to learn this all in one sitting. Pick a workflow that solves a real problem you have today. Use it for a week. Then come back.