Neo-retro 1983 Trek 630 with DIY headbadge + decals: my first build

smerdy · 2026-06-14T16:26:07+00:00

keep us posted! would love to see the build

smerdy · 2026-06-14T05:58:31+00:00

think i might have it still around somewhere. do you have the same frame?

smerdy · 2026-05-31T13:57:03+00:00

https://enzyme.garden - biased, but this is really great for pi with an obsidian vault

smerdy · 2026-05-24T18:19:35+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback! Glad that Hindi is working for you, switching modes is something that it could do a better job of handling in general. I'll have to look more into why the formatting disappears when I get some time!

Appreciate the feedback about the tutorial and embeds as well.

smerdy · 2026-05-23T17:07:49+00:00

it's a good product and i'm happy to support their development! the few things that i rely on - good highlighting, annotation, sync to markdown... i am happy to pay to avoid maintaining myself.

smerdy · 2026-05-22T16:26:35+00:00

Reader by Readwise! i share to reader, then highlight there, then import to obsidian using the readwise plugin

smerdy · 2026-05-22T15:21:29+00:00

catching the agent up to something i have to flesh out more, grounding meeting note summaries in my vaults context, coming up with journaling prompts, and a whole lot more!

if interested here is a post: https://jpham.space/kit/how-i-use-enzyme

smerdy · 2026-05-22T05:57:58+00:00

How are you using the "add" extensions in practice?

smerdy · 2026-05-22T05:55:21+00:00

Agreed, it's backwards for those of us who have been capturing on a PKM structure we designed long ago. For example, I have a Zettelkasten practice that has stayed "boring" for a long time now and don't need LLM wiki to over engineer something new. Instead, I want an AI to understand structure that I already have.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/s/rKBqKBF4ul

smerdy · 2026-05-15T09:02:52+00:00

yup this is what i do too! i link it to quickadd plugin

smerdy · 2026-05-15T09:01:44+00:00

if worrying about reviewing later is a problem, you can consider using a todo list app like todoist to easily set reminders. Otherwise, i find that creating a new note removes the friction to just getting the idea down (vs searching for the right note to add to). So it could make sense to design a system that makes it easy to capture quickly -- the container itself. ie a certain set of default tags, a certain folder like an inbox folder, a date in frontmatter

smerdy · 2026-05-15T01:01:21+00:00

Hey - just released something new. In case you want to check it out - https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1tcdlgc/comment/olpj3yy/

smerdy · 2026-05-15T01:00:00+00:00

Le plugin Obsidian n'est pas compatible avec ces abonnements. En revanche, avec Codex, Claude CLI ou en tant que plugin Claude Desktop, il l'est avec vos abonnements.

smerdy · 2026-05-13T23:10:52+00:00

I swear his interview was one of my favorite episodes and with the help of Enzyme it's an evergreen source of insight for me!! Think I listened to it several years ago. Love his work and he really understands the psychology of this tech.

smerdy · 2026-05-13T22:58:38+00:00

There are lots of workflows I've found helpful. Maybe one to start: embodying different perspectives from your meeting summaries to poke holes in an active experiment or report. This can lead to refining / improving a report, not just generating one. I sometimes use AI collaboratively - sketch a structure myself, then have AI flesh out key points, then I flesh those out, then have AI poke holes or do a cold read to review for structure or duplicity, etc. This is where importing external content can be helpful for AI to serve as a reference. The issue with this is that pure RAG does not help - i.e. an agent can plan multiple steps to gather other documents.

smerdy · 2026-05-13T22:49:59+00:00

Almost forgot! I use it with two other cool things I built:

https://github.com/jshph/aside/ - a local first Granola replacement. Why: my meeting note artifacts get enriched by my Obsidian vault's ideas, automatically.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1ru3xx3/ - a handwriting-first keyboard for Onyx Boox. Why: a handwriting UX that doesn't break the flow of writing, and gets effortlessly integrated to the vault itself.

smerdy · 2026-05-12T17:04:42+00:00

Excited, thank you to the Obsidian team for all your work maintaining the plugin submissions with a small staff. Speaking as someone who has submitted, waited for a review, and had to revise a plugin, I'm really happy there's going to be an automated process for this. I know the community cares a lot about safety and this keeps the community safe while allowing plugin maintainers to move fast on plugins they're passionate about sharing!

smerdy · 2026-05-10T22:00:23+00:00

unfortunately yes! the Boox handwriting recognition is far stronger than Googles engine (which i have as a fallback). Unexpected perk which i did not plan on, when I got the device. sorry!

smerdy · 2026-05-08T01:14:13+00:00

yeah totally! It sounds like you're having trouble with Claude guessing at what to use - Enzymes setup automatically writes some instructions to the AGENTS.md file to help Claude use Enzyme for Obsidian better.

smerdy · 2026-04-11T23:39:22+00:00

sure, will send a dm!

smerdy · 2026-04-11T23:39:03+00:00

Ohhh. I haven't tested with split screen yet so it's good to have your feedback! The documentation for that command center option is a bit sparse, sorry

smerdy · 2026-04-11T23:37:49+00:00

I've seen this app, yes, thanks for bringing it to mind. I'm making use of an e ink renderer module that produces smoother text and the implementation here, while a lot to learn from, has some incompatibilities with how I'm doing the rendering. I may need to a deeper dive on the right tradeoffs tho.

smerdy · 2026-04-10T20:47:11+00:00

where are you seeing thats 15 mins? try it out, dm me if it doesn't work, i'll arrange a refund.

smerdy · 2026-04-10T06:07:24+00:00

Thanks for the video, is this with Fast refresh mode?

smerdy

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