Claude + Obsidian: A Vault That Thinks With You

The CLAUDE.md File

# Vault Intelligence System

## Who I Am
My name is [name]. I work at the intersection of [your domains]. My audience is [describe them specifically]. My content pillars are [list 2-3].

## What I Am Building
[One paragraph describing your current projects and goals]

## How This Vault Works
Every note is raw material for thinking, content, or decisions. Notes are organised by type not topic.
- Observations: things I noticed, unpolished
- Reactions: my honest gut response to something
- Patterns: the same principle in two different domains
- Questions: things I genuinely do not know yet
- Numbers: real data points with the source
- References: saved content for future use

## My Thinking Style
[Describe how you think: do you reason from first principles, from analogies, from data?]
[What kinds of connections excite you?]
[What questions do you keep returning to?]

## What I Want From You
Surface connections I missed. Find contradictions between notes I saved weeks apart. Identify patterns forming across multiple captures. Flag questions that keep appearing without resolution. Never summarise. Always synthesise.

## Hard Rules
Do not produce generic insight. Every output must contain at least one connection traceable to a specific note. If you are pattern-matching to general knowledge rather than my notes, say so.

The Daily Synthesis Prompt

You have access to my recent Obsidian captures from the last 7 days. Read all of them across every subfolder.
Produce a daily synthesis with exactly four sections:

1. Connections: Two or three non-obvious links between notes I captured separately. Each connection must reference the specific notes by title. If the connection is obvious, it does not qualify.
2. Patterns: Any theme, argument, or idea that appears across three or more notes. Name the pattern in one sentence. List the notes that form it.
3. Contradictions: Any two notes where my stated positions conflict. Quote the relevant line from each. Do not resolve it. Just surface it.
4. Open Questions: Any question that appears repeatedly across my notes without resolution. List it exactly as I phrased it, not paraphrased.

Do not produce summaries. Do not produce general insight. Every item must trace back to a specific note I actually captured.

The Weekly Connection Session

Read all captures from the last 30 days across every subfolder.
Find three connections that would genuinely surprise me. The test: would I have found this connection myself if I had searched for it deliberately? If yes, it is too obvious. Only surface connections that emerge from the full set of notes together.

For each connection:
- Name it in one sentence
- Quote the relevant line from each source note
- Write one paragraph on what this connection implies
- Suggest one piece of content this connection could become