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Obsidian & Claude Cowork are doing all the house management and renovation tracking that I don't have brain space for right now. I ramble at Claude about things we need to fix in this very old and rundown Victorian we recent bought and it makes plans. Works great - both just operate on markdown.

Can I ask what information you gave alongside the prompt? Want to do something similar with our new house purchase and trying to think of what elements to give it as reference. Did you do floor plans etc?

I setup an obsidian vault and braindumped what I wanted into a plan.md file initially and the opened that in Claude Cowork. Messily listed out all the things I needed: projects to do, status of projects so far, contractors I’d already talked to, key house information, furniture to buy.

Then told Opus 4.6 to design a system for me to manage within Obsidian. Said I wanted to manage: - budget and spending - essential house info - regular maintenance tasks - renovation projects - furniture research and purchases Told it to use Dataview and make dashboards for each main project