I paired Claude Code with Obsidian CLI and it finally organized five years of notes
After years of good intentions and a vault full of chaos, one afternoon with Claude Code did what no plugin ever could. If you’ve used Obsidian for note-taking for more than a year, you probably have a secret. Your vault is a mess. Mine wasn’t just messy, it was a graveyard of “Untitled” notes and orphaned tags that felt more like a cognitive tax than a second brain. Not a lovable, quirky disaster. A real one. There were five years of notes dumped across more than 800 files with orphaned attachments, inconsistent naming, tags that I noticed later meant nothing, and folders that contradicted each other. And my graph looked less like a knowledge web and more like a panic attack rendered in dots and lines. I’d tried every approach. Templates. Even some of the best plugins. A complete reorganization I started two years ago that I abandoned after a few hours. A Dataview setup I barely understood. None of it stuck, because the problem wasn’t structure; it was the sheer volume of remediation required …
