I built notes live using Claude Code and Obsidian - no cuts, no prep. Starting from a Valentine's Day article, I followed a curiosity thread that went from gift ideas to STEM kits to source processing.

This is what "never start from zero" looks like in practice.

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I stopped typing
Wispr Flow has completely replaced typing for me. Notes, drafts, and messages.
If I would normally type something, I speak it instead.
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Video timeline
0:00 Writing a Valentine's Day article with Claude
0:21 Romance is just paying attention - why retrieval matters
1:35 Gift idea generation from years of vault data
2:05 Following a curiosity thread - Glitterbomb to CrunchLabs
4:39 Capturing YouTube transcripts with Obsidian Web Clipper
4:57 Processing sources with a Claude skill
6:25 Running parallel Claude terminals
7:33 Source curation - deciding what to keep or delete
9:03 Clipping and processing a second source
11:37 Never start from zero - the core idea
12:16 Why wait time is not wasted time
14:01 Correcting Claude and improving the system live
15:08 Staying inside Obsidian for everything

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