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I am a long-time Obsidian user and I should know this, it I am having difficulty saving to my Obsidian Daily Note.

A typical share menu will take me to Obsidian and the next step is to open the vault.

How do I construct a path to today’s Daily Note?

I am surprised that there is not a share menu ‘See more…’ option listed for this Daily Note save. Or perhaps there is, but I need to enable it.

What am I missing here?

There’s a lot of development that harnesses AI – eg BYOK or offline – with a solid Markdown text writing base.

There’s nothing wrong with Markdown as it stands, it is a well proven standard, but many writers and note-takers are getting used to being able to dictate notes or paragraphs and polish the raw transcription. Or summarise it. Or turn it into something else. And why not — affordable AI tools are giving us this capability.

What are your best experiences of this new direction? Or if you are a developer, what are you cooking up that might be the latest flavour in this kind of note-taking?

I think it was Tiago Forte who popularised the idea of a Commonplace Book, borrowing the historic idea of a notebook for writers and thinkers which would be the first place to record their notes, insights, observations and questions.

Today that looks a lot like a journal or Daily Note page that would accept various forms of input. Text, voice notes that become text, handwriting or text recognition etc. And drawing/writing — why not (although this might be a complication)?

Evernote came close to this ideal before pricing itself out of the market. Obsidian has many of the elements but if it is serving as a second brain repository of evergreen notes, somewhere else to dump what is raw and uncategorised is needed.

There are countless voice transcription apps — but that solution is not the same a notebook, searchable and linkable and a space to edit and rewrite.

There are excellent Markdown/PKM apps, but I wonder where my vision of a quick-to-access Commonplace Notebook could be created? Your thoughts please.

We’re all hoping for a big step change in Apple Siri and the transcription associated with it to be announced this week. It may be the answer to the lacklustre built-in dictation – or it may be part of the answer.

I’m interested to know whether any app developer has found a way to create a synergy between transcription and Apple Intelligence on newer devices. It seems to me that there is something there — but it needs some creativity to join it up without a lot of separate operations and key presses. So the Apple Intelligence just gets on with the post-processing.

I’m an out-and-about person and I have informal meetings and conversations on the hoof, as it were. This sparks my interest in note-taking and note capture using mobile apps on iOS, mainly on my iPhone, although I do have an M-series iPad as well.

Are there any indie developers working on apps that harness AI (preferably BYOK or offline) for note capture and refinement on this platform? There are very few actual note-taking apps, rather than dictation apps, that do this — although I’m a fan of Raycast, which offers note-taking with post-processing and is a good example of what I’m looking for.

I’m an out-and-about person and I have informal meetings and conversations on the hoof, as it were. This sparks my interest in note-taking and note capture using mobile apps on iOS, mainly on my iPhone, although I do have an M-series iPad as well.

Are there any indie developers working on apps that harness AI for note capture and refinement on this platform? There are very few actual note-taking apps, rather than dictation apps, that do this — although I’m a fan of Raycast, which offers note-taking with post-processing and is a good example of what I’m looking for.

I may be lazy… or it might be that I do my best writing work while relaxed, but I do a lot of drafting on iOS.

I don’t want AI to try to create for me — it is repetitive rather than creative in my experience — but I do appreciate a proofreader and sometimes a summariser or an editor that can improve the flow, before I produce a final draft.

There are not many PKMs which do that, and fewer still on iOS. Why is that?

Are there iOS developers who are working on what I am looking for?

Craft comes close, and Drafts has some plugins including a good Claude one which does the job.

Any suggestions for an iOS app that can capture voice notes, handle wiki links for reference material and proofread or even suggest improvements for my draft before I pick it up on desktop to work with it further?

I’m not a fan of AI to try to be creative, because AI replicates patterns and lacks sentiment and intention.

But it’s good at some more mechanical tasks — voice transcription and clean up, bullet point summary, improving structure and flow. As long as the final edit is my words, my style and tone, I’m OK with that.

A logical way for Markdown to evolve is to gain these kinds of features via BYOK eg Claude.

Who is developing along these lines? What works? I’m not interested in paying silly money for a subscription but a reasonable one-off payment for a good app is always a fair investment — in continuing development as much as anything else. What are your suggestions?

Following the evolutions of the past 25 years, I moved from blogging to newsletters, but the friction of posting became an inhibition.

What are members’ best ways of making their posts widely available – quickly, easily and at low cost?

Surprise me with an approach which is a bit different but which works for you!

I have used both Substack and Medium but the publishing friction can be quite high eg finding an illustration. What are my options, where my material will still be found and not just lost in the internet ether?

I’m
Just asking the question everyone is asking. Ready to give feedback via TestFlight… should be seeing invitations by now.

Is there an easy way to have Apple Notes create a Daily Note view on opening?

Craft is great for producing good-looking handouts and it has some ‘second brain’ features but I find it less than satisfactory for capture and note-taking in general. I would like to see this addressed in 2026.

Specifically, voice transcription within the app is long overdue. The post-processing exists and could be made more accessible.

But why the reticence about transcription? Having embraced the move into providing AI helps, transcription is a no-brainer.