🌴 Brian

@wfhbrian.com

Empowering individuals with smart open-source tools. Creator of the Obsidian Smart Connections plugin and more at smartconnections.app 🌴

Most AI work feels productive. But it doesn’t compound. You prompt. You get a reply. Then the context disappears into another chat tab. Smart Loop fixes the missing piece: Note → AI → Better Note The note becomes the system @obsidian.md

Bold black-and-gold infographic titled “SMART LOOP” showing a circular AI workflow built around one core idea: “THE NOTE BECOMES THE SYSTEM.” A glowing gold loop connects three stages: Clarify, Delegate, and Compound. At the center is a bright note icon with connected nodes, symbolizing compounding context and durable AI workflows. The design contrasts traditional AI work (“prompts disappear,” “context resets,” “work fragments,” “AI forgets”) with Smart Loop workflows (“context compounds,” “threads stay attached,” “notes get smarter,” “work accelerates”). Large cinematic typography, neon gold highlights, and minimalist systems-thinking visuals create a premium AI operating system aesthetic optimized for X/Twitter.

Most AI work feels productive. But it doesn’t compound. You prompt. You get a reply. Then the context disappears into another chat tab. Smart Loop fixes the missing piece: Note → AI → Better Note The note becomes the system @obsidian.md

Bold black-and-gold infographic titled “SMART LOOP” showing a circular AI workflow built around one core idea: “THE NOTE BECOMES THE SYSTEM.” A glowing gold loop connects three stages: Clarify, Delegate, and Compound. At the center is a bright note icon with connected nodes, symbolizing compounding context and durable AI workflows. The design contrasts traditional AI work (“prompts disappear,” “context resets,” “work fragments,” “AI forgets”) with Smart Loop workflows (“context compounds,” “threads stay attached,” “notes get smarter,” “work accelerates”). Large cinematic typography, neon gold highlights, and minimalist systems-thinking visuals create a premium AI operating system aesthetic optimized for X/Twitter.

ah sweet! i’m so glad someone has found something useful in the colophon! that’s what they’re all about ☺️ smart connections is great, it makes links to things i forgot i read, but that immediately brings back a memory of a thought as soon as i see the connection.

I was trying to explain @obsidian.md to my musician friend. He uses Google Docs. To demonstrate, we exported a document in both markdown and Microsoft word formats. Then we opened both in notepad, markdown first. "See, you can still read it." Then the word file, he goes "hieroglyphics?!?" 🌴

Obsidian Bases is great, but it doesn't replace Dataview's advanced features. Hopefully we'll see list/task level queries in Bases in the future 🌴