TV Time shut down on July 15 and took 15 years of my TV history with it. I never exported any of it. Now 10,260 movies, shows, anime, video games and board games live in my Obsidian vault as plain Markdown notes.

My top 3 personal organization habits: 3. Live in your daily note 2. Never skip the weekly review 1. Capture everything, then forget

In the Kanban Action Planner, the same Base view flips into: - Board - Calendar - Timeline - WBS - Agenda - Triage - Focus - Ideal week Same notes, different questions: when? how much? what does it belong to? what now?

Here's the mental I use for my action system:

Your values tell you what matters, your goals tell you where to aim, your priorities tell you where to focus.

My daily note is open all day. Plans, progress, thoughts, ideas. It's my operations center. Everything flows from there into my knowledge base during reviews.

AI agents usually forget everything the moment the session ends. Mine don't. After every session, each agent writes down what it was asked, what it did and what it learned. The next session starts where the last one stopped. That memory write-back is built into the Obsidian Starter Kit v5.

Organizing yourself is a journey, not a destination. Don't adopt all 10 habits at once. Pick one this week. Then another. Watch the countdown (75s): youtu.be/IV4vHG9W1W8 Want a step-by-step path? knowledge-management-for-beginners.com

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If it matters, it gets a time block. If you don't fill your calendar yourself, someone else will do it for you. One of my 10 personal organization habits: youtu.be/IV4vHG9W1W8 Learn the system: knowledge-management-for-beginners.com

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Does Obsidian cope with 10,000 media notes? My vault has 30K+ Markdown files. Movies by director: 4,874 rows in 0.38 s. The All view, with dozens of formulas over 10,160 rows: 6.86 s. What costs time is rows times formulas, so filter on tags first.

Periodic notes only work if reaching them takes zero effort. So every daily and weekly note in the Obsidian Starter Kit has Previous / Next / Current buttons. And the Quick Actions panel opens (or creates) this week's, month's, quarter's and year's note in one click.

New video! 5 minutes on the Quick Actions panel I added to the Obsidian Starter Kit v5. It's the feature I use the most, every day.

Friction kills capture habits faster than a lack of motivation. If saving a thought takes 5 steps, you save fewer thoughts. So I removed every step I could from my daily note workflow in Obsidian: one button per section, nothing else.

Movies say Watching. Books say Reading. Games say Playing. Board games say In Rotation. To get one In Progress view across all of them in Obsidian Bases, I use one formula that maps every medium's wording onto the same roles: backlog, in progress, waiting, done.

Nobody wants to type dates. In my Obsidian media system, I drag a card from To Watch to Watching on a Kanban board and date_started is stamped. Mark it Owned: date_acquired is set. Lend it: lent_on is today. The rules only fill empty dates, so what I type wins.

A rule I follow with AI in my vault: AI shouldn't invent your structure. It should follow it. In the Obsidian Starter Kit, each note type is documented and validated. The AI knows what a project is, where it goes and which properties it needs. So it files things where you'd file them.

Your brain is for having ideas, not holding them. My top 10 personal organization habits 👇

When I buy a tool, I want to pay once and keep getting better versions. So that's how I sell the Obsidian Starter Kit. That's how it has always worked, and v5 doesn't change it. And there's a 30-day money-back guarantee if it's not for you.

I ordered new board games today. Now that I have my Media Management system, it's quite easy to record/track. I simply said "I ordered those games (link); create board game notes for those, and also add those on BoardGameGeek" And boom!

Obsidian is powerful. That's exactly what makes it overwhelming. Most people spend weeks or months figuring out how to organize their notes, which plugins to trust and how to build workflows that last.

A few years ago, building software just for yourself was hard to justify. With AI agents, the equation has changed. The bar is lower and the ceiling is higher.

Your morning routine can be one command. The Obsidian Starter Kit v5 ships slash commands for Claude Code: /checkin in the morning, /closeday in the evening, and more. Your daily routines become short commands that work straight from your vault. Try it out.

Maps of Content are how I navigate 15,000+ notes without getting lost. A MoC is a note that links to everything on a topic, curated. Combined with Bases views, you always have an entry point. The Maps system is part of the Obsidian Starter Kit.

If you don't own your data, you only rent it. TV Time taught me that the hard way. Every movie, show and game I care about is now a file I control: versioned in Git, backed up daily, readable in 30 years with or without Obsidian.

Because my media library is plain files, AI can read and write all of it. "I just watched Dune Part Two, 8/10" updates the note, adds a line to my daily note and sets my rating on IMDb. No API to beg for, no export to request, no rate limit. Files.

I capture everything in my daily note. Tasks, wins, ideas, links, gratitude. But every capture meant: open the note, scroll, find the right section, write. So I built Quick Actions into the Obsidian Starter Kit v5. One click, type, done. It lands under the right heading.

Collecting information feels productive. Mostly, it isn't. The Collector's Fallacy is real: saving an article isn't learning from it. The Obsidian Starter Kit has a knowledge workflow that takes you from capture and curation to permanent notes. So what you read turns into something you can reuse.

Your goals and your to-do list should talk to each other. In the Obsidian Starter Kit, goals, plans, projects, tasks, activities and ideas link up across the hierarchy. So every task you do today can trace back to something you actually care about.

Your daily note should be your cockpit. In the Obsidian Starter Kit, it carries rows of buttons: add a quick task, mark something done, roll unfinished tasks over, log in Life Tracker, jump to the previous or next day. The things you do every day are one click away.

The Obsidian Starter Kit doesn't only ship a vault. It ships a user guide.