Personal Operating System

I heard Noah Brier on a podcast talking about using Claude Code with Obsidian. He'd built an open source starter kit called Claudesidian — a pre-configured vault template designed to be driven by AI. That was the spark.

I started with Noah's template and quickly realized this could be something much bigger. Not just a note-taking setup, but a full personal operating system — one that manages my coaching business, tracks my finances, processes my emails, and runs my daily ceremonies. All through conversation with Claude.

Pepper Potts is what emerged. I'm still building it — a little each week, always in service of the actual work, not as a project for its own sake.

I want an intelligence layer that wraps around every domain of my life — coaching, finances, health, relationships, creativity, logistics — and orchestrates them the way a world-class chief of staff would. Structure that feels like liberation, not control.

The morning kickoff already shapes my day. The evening reflection captures what happened. The weekly review closes open loops. Email forwarding means important messages land in my vault without me lifting a finger. And it's all connected — coaching actions, financial data, project status — surfaced exactly when I need it.

Eventually, I want health data flowing in (HRV, sleep), calendar integration for time-aware decisions, pattern detection that notices recurring themes across weeks of notes, and client prep briefs generated automatically before every coaching session.

I open my laptop in the morning, fire up the terminal, and type /daily-kickoff. Claude reads my daily note, checks my coaching actions, pulls in any forwarded emails that arrived overnight, and asks me: “What are your three wins for today?” We have a quick conversation and I'm locked in for the day in about five minutes.

During the day, I can say “check my email for updates on X” and Claude searches my Gmail directly, reads the threads, and gives me the full picture. Important emails get forwarded to my vault automatically. When I need to research something, Claude searches across my entire vault — hundreds of notes, meeting transcripts, project docs — and synthesizes what it finds.

Between coaching calls, I have buffer blocks — 30-minute windows for knocking off small tasks. I ask Claude “what's in my buffer?” and it pulls up the running list. I pick a few things, knock them out, move on.

In the evening, I run /daily-reflection. Claude walks me through what I actually did versus what I intended, captures the key insights, and plants a seed for tomorrow.

The magic isn't any one feature. It's that everything talks to everything. My coaching actions show up in my morning kickoff. My forwarded emails land in the right place. My weekly review catches things I would have dropped. The system holds what my brain can't.