Get useful AI help with the projects in your Obsidian vault
Practical lessons for turning your notes into clearer assignments, reviewing what AI proposes, and keeping the work moving.
Learn from the tools and workflows behind Smart Plugins. Put them to use in a project already in your vault.
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Put the thinking you already have to work
Your notes may hold the brief, the research, the decisions, and the reasons behind them. Let that work inform what you ask AI to do next.
If you already use Obsidian and AI for work you return to, these lessons help you give the next request a better starting point. That might mean checking a plan against a changed brief or bringing a product description into line with an accepted decision.
Identify a useful contribution, give it relevant context, and judge what comes back. The result might be a clearer assignment, a supported improvement to the project, or accepted work you can use.
Keep the project's direction yours while getting help with the work that advances it.
Here is where we start
The four opening emails address four practical questions:
- What should AI help with next? Start from an existing project and clarify a useful contribution.
- Which proposed changes belong? Examine a real Smart Inbox review decision from Brian's business and the direction it changed.
- What should the next request know? Reuse relevant context and keep the conversation associated with the work.
- Where does this earn a place in my workflow? Evaluate Connect Pro against a recurring job and the effort it involves.
Along the way, learn Smart Loop: Clarify → Delegate → Compound: make the work clear, get a contribution, then use your judgment to improve the result or the next starting point.
Follow the examples or apply them to your own work. The complete practical guide is available without subscribing; the emails add interpretation and a connected learning progression.
The work behind the lessons
Brian builds Smart Connections and the wider Smart Plugins suite while using the products, systems, and operating knowledge in his own business.
Pursuing an ambitious one-person business gives that work a practical focus: direct assignments clearly, maintain relevant context, and decide what to accept. The emails draw lessons from those decisions so you can adapt useful parts to your goals.
After the introduction, the learning continues with selected examples: larger assignments, useful context, product choices, and the reasoning behind them.
The tools have specific jobs
Smart Connections helps surface relevant thinking. Connect Pro can turn an AI-assisted source comparison into an exact proposed note change for review in Smart Inbox. Smart Context and Smart Chat support source reuse and conversation continuity. Smart Graph Pro offers visual source selection when it helps the task.
The connected proposal exercise requires the relevant Connect Pro access and setup. The guide explains those requirements and the boundaries of review. You can learn the method without installing the entire suite.
Get the lessons behind the tools
Begin with the four-part introduction. Continue learning from the systems, tools, and workflows behind Smart Plugins.
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