
I kept trying to turn Obsidian into an AI workspace with HTML, terminal, and retrieval.
HTML support felt bolted on. Terminal plugins were slow and brittle. Continuously indexing a changing note library was surprisingly difficult.
Eventually I realized the issue wasn’t missing plugins. The assumptions were different.
Obsidian was designed around humans manually writing, organizing, and reading notes.
I had already gotten used to harnessing Claude Code. There was no going back.
Recently a friend shared this project exploring the same direction:
https://github.com/liliu-z/stashbase
It feels closer to VS Code than a traditional note app.