I posted about reducing my "task noise" and got questions about my stack / how I work. Here’s an explainer!
Checks my calendar and builds that day's note in Obsidian — bullet journal format, agenda up top, any open to-dos pulled in below. By the time I sit down, the scaffolding is already there.
After I get off calls, I drop the transcript. Every hour, the task checks that inbox, pulls any new transcripts, converts them into clean Markdown files, and drops them into an inbox folder inside Obsidian. Since Obsidian is just reading local Markdown files, they show up automatically — no importing, no manual step. The whole chain is: Zoom → Drive inbox → local → Obsidian inbox, and none of it requires me to touch anything.
I used to run this once at end of day, but I'd be in a meeting wanting to reference something from two hours earlier and it wouldn't be ready yet. Hourly made the whole thing invisible. Notes just... exist by the time I want them.
The daily version is still there, disabled. "Automated" doesn't automatically mean "right cadence."
Runs through all my Slacks from the last 24 hours, checks email and calendar, and produces to-do list items formatted the way I want. It's been a real unlock — it makes me feel like I can be a little more chill about stuff happening in Slack throughout the day, because I know it's going to get caught.
The timing is intentional: late enough that most of the day has landed, early enough to actually act on it.
Every Friday, it runs through Linear and Slack and produces what it thinks is as close to my weekly update as possible — so I can paste it into our docs tool. I don't have it post directly, because it's sometimes wrong and I want to look at it before it goes out. But it could. That's a me preference, not a technical limitation.
Fixed cadence, requires attention but not real thinking. The clearest example of task noise: easy to forget, feels bad to have forgotten, not worth tracking manually.