Design Your Ideal Week in Obsidian

Big Kanban boards get overwhelming. I added a triage mode and an ideal week mode to the Kanban Action Planner plugin for Obsidian. Here's how they work and why an ideal week is worth designing.

Journaling Is the Most Underrated Knowledge Management Habit

Journaling isn't just about feelings. Your daily note can be where you plan, track your life, think in writing, and capture everything you learn. Here's why it belongs at the heart of your knowledge management practice.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #217 - Design the Week You Actually Want

A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!

Discord Sync CLI

Discord Sync CLI (`discord-sync`) is a CLI/TUI I built to export and synchronize Discord servers, channels, and threads to JSON, HTML & Markdown. Years of community knowledge live in Discord, and none of it is really yours: no offline access, no proper export, and attachment links that silently expi

Claude Fable 5.1 - cheaper caching, calmer safeguards, same old Claudish

Three months after the launch (and the ban, and the un-ban) of Claude Fable 5, Anthropic just shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1.

Time Machine 2.0 - your note as it was, beside the note you are writing

The Time Machine plugin for Obsidian just got its biggest update so far: 2.0.0.

Kanban Action Planner - column triage, focus mode, time tracking, and the end of the freeze

Five releases of the Kanban Action Planner landed today, from 1.18.0 to 1.19.2. Together they add up to one idea: less time managing the board, more time deciding and doing.

Dataview Serializer 3.0 - a settings screen you can search, and a bug that could eat a query

The Dataview Serializer plugin for Obsidian just reached 3.0.0.

Mastering concepts matters more than ever

The way we learn and perceive software development is changing a lot due to the rapid evolution of AI capabilities.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #216 - My AI Assistant Is Turning Into an Operating System

A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!

Knowii Voice AI

You Think Faster Than You Type Your Keyboard Is Costing You Hours Every Week

Obsidian Aliases

Aliases give a note alternative names. They are defined in the note's frontmatter (see Obsidian Properties) and picked up everywhere Obsidian resolves names: wikilink autocomplete, the Obsidian Quick Switcher, and unlinked mentions.

Obsidian Embeds

Embeds display the content of another file inside the current note. The syntax is a wikilink prefixed with `!`. This is Obsidian's implementation of Transclusion: content lives in one place and gets reused by reference, never copied.

Obsidian Search

Obsidian search (backed by the Search core plugin for Obsidian) is full-text search across the whole vault, with operators that most users never discover. Learning a handful of them is the difference between scrolling through results and getting exactly the notes you meant.

My AI assistant is turning into an operating system

The way I use AI has gone through many iterations already. Writing them down in order makes the direction obvious, so here they are.

Tools

Knowii Voice AI 0.8.0 - Drop a File, Get the Text

Knowii Voice AI 0.8.0 is out. Drop audio or video files onto the app and they come out as text, the transcribe CLI now ships in every installer, and transcriptions come out cleaner thanks to word replacements, phonetic fixes and filler word removal. Everything still runs entirely on your machine.

Model routing

Model routing is the practice of directing different tasks to different AI models based on the task's requirements. Instead of using one model for everything, a routing layer selects the most appropriate model considering capability, cost, speed, and context needs.

Microsoft eXecution Container (MXC)

Microsoft eXecution Container (MXC) is an open-source (MIT License) sandboxed code execution system from Microsoft for running untrusted code (model outputs, plugins, tools) safely on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Instead of shipping one isolation technology, it puts multiple containment backends, from

Zellij

Zellij is a modern terminal multiplexer written in Rust. It positions itself as a "terminal workspace" that doesn't sacrifice simplicity for power; discoverable UI with on-screen keybinding hints makes it approachable without limiting what power users can do.

GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency (GHE.com)

GHE.com is the version of GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency: a managed cloud GitHub where a company chooses the region its code and data are stored in. Each enterprise gets a dedicated subdomain (e.g. `octocorp.ghe.com`) with its own namespace, fully isolated from the open-source community

Awesome GitHub Copilot

Awesome GitHub Copilot (awesome-copilot.github.com) is GitHub's official, community-driven catalog of resources that extend GitHub Copilot. Maintained by GitHub with community contributions, backed by the `github/awesome-copilot` repository. It's the de facto marketplace for Copilot customizations a

GitHub Copilot Canvases

Canvases are durable, shared visual surfaces in the GitHub Copilot App where you and an AI agent operate on the same plan. Instead of workflow state living buried in chat history, a canvas makes it explicit and persistent: phases, decision points, validation gates, and drafts update live as the agen

GitHub Copilot MCP Registry

GitHub Copilot MCP Registry is the ability, in public preview, to point a GitHub organization or enterprise at a private MCP) registry so that GitHub Copilot clients only discover, and optionally only allow, the MCP servers your company approves. Admins configure it under AI Controls → MCP in the or

GitHub Copilot Sandboxing

GitHub Copilot Sandboxing is GitHub's answer to the "agent with full shell access" problem: two complementary isolation modes for running GitHub Copilot CLI agent sessions, both in public preview. Local sandboxing wraps the commands an agent runs on your machine in an OS-level sandbox powered by Mic