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My articles and newsletters come out of it every week. 👉 www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obs...

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The Obsidian Starter Kit has a writing system for articles, newsletters, books, social posts and videos. Your notes feed your drafts, and your drafts link back to your notes.

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Write from your vault, not from scratch.

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So I built the Agentic Resource Discovery Server plugin for Obsidian. Your vault becomes a local catalog of skills and agents, served over HTTP and MCP. Agents search it when they need something, and fetch/use only that.

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Sébastien Dubois @dsebastien.net · 30/09/2026

The more useful my AI skill library became, the more expensive every session got. Claude Code loads the name and description of every skill at startup. With hundreds of skills, that cost me tens of thousands of tokens before I even typed a word.

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She now grasps what AI can really do for her.

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Sébastien Dubois @dsebastien.net · 30/09/2026

I just created a variant of my AI/Obsidian system for my wife who is an elementary school teacher. Now AI knows her job, her class, her priorities, how to help her create lessons, visuals, animations, even educative games. She loves it. Huge time saver

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The Obsidian Starter Kit answers those questions for you, with 50+ note types that each know where they belong. www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obs...

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Where do your book notes go? And your meeting notes, ideas and contacts? If you have to think about it, you'll hesitate. And when you hesitate, you stop capturing.

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✅ You're starting with Obsidian and want a proven system ✅ You're overwhelmed by options ✅ You want to learn PKM methods hands-on ✅ You want AI to work with your notes Not for you if you enjoy building everything from scratch. And that's fine too.

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Who is the Obsidian Starter Kit for?

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #218 - Married, and Obsidian Starter Kit v5 Is Out

It sounds trivial. It's not. It gives you an anchor for everything. Point AI at it, and you'll see how much leverage that alone creates. More in my latest newsletter: www.dsebastien.net/developassi...

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A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!

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Use it for three things: - Focus: the two or three things that matter today, at the top - Track: what you did, what went wrong, what you're grateful for - Capture: every idea, link or half-baked thought goes there first. Sort it out later

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The simplest productivity habit I know: keep your daily note open all day.

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Free, open source, and generic enough to work for you too: ghradar.dsebastien.net

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So I built GitHub Radar: one page listing every open issue and PR across the users, orgs and repos you care about. No server behind it. Your GitHub token is only ever sent to GitHub itself.

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I maintain a LOT of repositories across my own accounts and several organizations. Keeping track of every open issue and pull request was a mess, and GitHub Projects didn't give me what I needed.

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Edition 218 is out, plus: Knowii inside Obsidian, why I stopped preloading my AI skills, and my take on Claude Opus 5.5.

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Last time, I promised the next edition would come from a married man. Promise kept 💍 A week later, Obsidian Starter Kit v5 shipped: the AI-ready vault I run my whole business from. Last release at the current price.

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Edition 218 is out, plus: Knowii inside Obsidian, why I stopped preloading my AI skills, and my take on Claude Opus 5.5. www.dsebastien.net/developassi...

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Every hidden database your task manager keeps is knowledge your AI can't touch. Every plain text property is knowledge it can act on.

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Ask your AI assistant "what's the status of my Obsidian workshop task?" and it just reads the file. Ask it to move every task of a project to Done, and it edits frontmatter properties. No API. No integration. No MCP server required. Just files.

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The most underrated benefit of managing projects in plain Markdown files: AI can drive the whole system.

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My daily note is always open on my computer. It's where I list the tasks that matter today, log wins and challenges, note what I'm grateful for, and capture every idea I run into. One note. All day long. Here's why it works: www.dsebastien.net/journaling-...

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The full story is here: www.dsebastien.net/give-your-a... Get the kit: www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obs...

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I just shipped the biggest Obsidian Starter Kit release since v4. Activities and Ideas, dependencies and milestones, an ideal week, work that archives itself, one-click daily actions, and a Claude Code startup that's 65% lighter.

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That's the setup I share in the Obsidian Starter Kit v5: www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obs...

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What would you do with an AI that already knew your goals, your projects, the people you work with and how you write? I'm genuinely curious. For me, it was planning my weeks and drafting in my own voice.

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The Obsidian Starter Kit is that vault, without my personal content. When something proves itself in my daily work, it lands in the next release. 👉 www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obs...

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I run DeveloPassion from one Obsidian vault. Writing, the newsletter, the Knowii Community, plugin development, product launches, customers, goals. Everything.

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👉 www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obs...

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My daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly notes all share one shape. Intentions first. Captures during the period. A Closing at the end: wins, challenges, lessons learned, what to carry forward. Learn one layout and you know them all. It's the journaling system in the Obsidian Starter Kit.

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Building an Obsidian system yourself: ➤ Weeks or months of setup ➤ Trial-and-error folder structure ➤ Researching thousands of plugins ➤ Writing your own AI prompts and context Starting from the Obsidian Starter Kit: ➤ Ready when you open it One-time purchase. Free updates for life.

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I strongly believe knowledge work should compound. Every note you create, every idea you capture, every project you complete should make you more capable. That's the conviction behind the Obsidian Starter Kit. The system is built so your past work keeps paying off.

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In the Obsidian Starter Kit, it's all in one vault, in a structure the AI can read. So the plan it gives you is actually yours. www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obs...

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Want AI to help you plan your week? It needs to know your goals, your projects, your commitments and how much time you have. In most setups, that's scattered across five apps.

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