---
title: "Welcome to your Obsidian Academy"
description: "A personal training site for your Obsidian + Claude Code + nano-banana stack."
source: "Obsidian Academy"
source_url: https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev//
saved: 2026-05-16
tags: [obsidian-academy, saved-from-web, welcome]
---

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

  ### New to Obsidian?

Start with **Obsidian Basics** in the sidebar. Six short pages — markdown, links, tags, the mobile app, your Syncthing setup.
  ### Already comfortable?

Jump straight to **[Daily Driver](/workflows/01-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

| 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

Ordered by **start here first**:

- **[1. Daily Driver](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/01-daily-driver/)** — Morning daily-note builder — the spine of the whole system
- **[2. Inbox Zero](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/02-inbox-zero/)** — Triage everything in 00-Inbox/
- **[3. Prep-for](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/03-prep-for/)** — One-page briefing on a person before a call
- **[4. Meeting Machine](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/04-meeting-machine/)** — Voice memos or raw notes → structured meeting note
- **[5. Content Engine](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/05-content-engine/)** — Draft a blog post + auto-generate illustrations
- **[6. Weekly Review](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/06-weekly-review/)** — Sunday synthesis of the past 7 days
- **[7. Research Synthesizer](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/07-research-synthesizer/)** — Literature-review style MOC from raw clips
- **[8. Visual Journal](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/08-visual-journal/)** — One AI-generated image per day of your year
- **[9. Spaced Repetition](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/09-spaced-repetition/)** — Auto-flashcards from #learn tagged notes
- **[10. MOC Maintainer](https://obsidian-academy.pages.dev/workflows/10-moc-maintainer/)** — Weekly rebuild of folder index notes

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## 📦 Take the whole thing offline

Three ways to bring this whole site into your vault or onto your device.

  ### Download as a vault folder (.zip)

Every page as a separate Markdown note, organized into `basics/`, `workflows/`, `bonus/`, etc. Internal links use Obsidian `[[wiki-link]]` syntax — the graph view works after import. Drop the unzipped folder into `40-Resources/obsidian-academy/`.

    [⬇️ obsidian-academy.zip](/downloads/obsidian-academy.zip)
  ### Download as one big Markdown file

All 33 pages concatenated into a single `.md` with a clickable table of contents. Easier to share or skim linearly. ~100 KB.

    [⬇️ obsidian-academy-all.md](/downloads/obsidian-academy-all.md)
  ### Install as a phone app (PWA)

Open this site on your Galaxy S26+ in Chrome → ⋮ menu → **"Add to Home Screen"**. Lands as an icon. Tap it like an app. Works offline after first visit.

> Every individual page also has a **"Save to vault"** button in the top-right that downloads just that page as Markdown.

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> **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.