My Hermes and Obsidian Setup and Use Cases
The article discusses the author's use of Hermes and Obsidian for organizing thoughts and ideas. By utilizing voice notes and an open-source agent framework, the author has streamlined their workflow, allowing for more time spent outdoors. The piece also explores various use cases for this setup, emphasizing its potential value in consumer tech.
- ▪Hermes is a lightweight open-source agent framework that helps organize tasks and ideas.
- ▪Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores notes as plain text files on the user's computer.
- ▪The author uses voice notes to capture business ideas, which are then transcribed and organized by Hermes into a structured format.
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#013: My Hermes & Obsidian Setup and Use CasesBuilding the plane as I fly it.Mete PolatMay 20, 20261362ShareThis article started on a dog walk.As I was walking my dog, I was dropping messy voice notes with ideas into a Telegram chat with my agent named Satori. By the time I sat down to write, Hermes had turned that pile into an Obsidian thought note: raw transcripts in the scratchpad, a cleaned-up shape of the argument in the agent section, related context linked, and an agent draft for me to react to.I didn’t outsource my thinking - I wrote the article myself. But this system compressed the distance between messy thought and shaped material. I spent more time outside with my dog and less time hunching over my laptop. I’m happy. My dog is happy.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Hacker News (Newest).