Use Claude Cowork + Obsidian to Triple Your Output

Learn a simple system for planning and managing your workdays with Obsidian and Claude Cowork. You will set up an Obsidian vault that Claude can read, then use it to create daily plans automatically so each morning’s plan is ready in Obsidian.

• Anyone drowning in notes apps who writes things down but never checks them again.
• Founders and freelancers who need a system but dislike rigid project management tools.
• Anyone who tried to-do apps and stopped using them because maintaining the app felt like more work than doing the work.

You will build a daily planning system that runs on Obsidian for storing and viewing your notes, and Claude Cowork for reading your vault and writing daily plans automatically.

• An Obsidian vault with daily-notes/, projects/, and templates/ folders.
• A my-workflow.md file that tells Claude your schedule, priorities, work style, and tools.
• A daily-note-template.md file that defines the format for each day’s note.
• Project files that Claude can use to understand what is due soon.
• Scheduled Claude Cowork tasks for morning planning and closing the day.

• Obsidian, available as a free download.
• Claude desktop app with a Pro plan or higher.
• Google Calendar connected to Claude.
• The starter files from this guide: my-workflow.md and daily-note-template.md.
• At least one active project to track in a project markdown file.

• Before your end-of-day task runs, ask Claude to interview you about your day and update your notes. This helps capture anything you forgot to jot down during the day.