goryugo.com
20 years of PKM, now deep in Obsidian and AI.
Practitioner notes from Tokyo.
Topics
- About goryugo 20 years of PKM practice, from Evernote to Obsidian and AI — the story behind goryugo.com
- Antigravity: An AI Agent That Lives Inside Your Obsidian Vault What happens when you give Claude Code direct read-write access to your Obsidian vault — and how a three-layer structure of Rules, Skills, and Workflows makes it actually reliable.
- I Quit Weekly Reviews. Here's What Replaced Them. Weekly reviews collapse under their own weight. Here's how I replaced mine with a continuous, low-friction system built on Spaced Repetition in Obsidian.
- Johnny Decimal in Obsidian Without Folders The Johnny Decimal site says Obsidian doesn't work well with the system. I've found the opposite — but only because I stopped using folders entirely.
- LLR: Life Logging in Obsidian with One Command Toggle Task — create, start, finish. LLR is an Obsidian plugin that turns your daily note into a simple, plain-text time log. No complex UI. No lock-in. Just Markdown checkboxes.
- Obsidian Canvas Is Not for Making Diagrams Most people use Obsidian Canvas to produce visual outputs. That framing misses what it's actually good for — thinking in progress, not thinking already done.
- Obsidian Dataview: Stop Searching, Let Your Notes Come to You Dataview lets you write queries once and have your notes surface themselves. Here's how I use it in daily notes, task tracking, and long-term review — without turning Obsidian into a database.
- Obsidian Plugins: How to Choose Without Getting Lost Over 1,000 community plugins exist for Obsidian. Here's how to avoid the configuration rabbit hole and find the ones worth keeping long-term.
- SRS Is Not a Memorization Tool Spaced repetition is usually framed as a flashcard system for memorization. That framing undersells what it actually does — and misses its most interesting applications.
- Using AI to Autonomously Manage Your Obsidian Vault Since Obsidian 1.12 introduced a CLI, AI agents can interact with your vault through text commands rather than GUI clicks. Here's what that makes possible.
- Using Anki to Learn a Foreign Language: What Actually Matters Reading a language and understanding it at speed are completely different skills. Here's how SRS and Anki bridge that gap — and how to use them without burning out.
- Zettelkasten After 20 Years of Note-Taking What two decades of personal knowledge management taught me about Zettelkasten — and what most guides quietly skip.