I've had a habit for a long time of starting each day with creating a daily note, into which I dump all my RAM during the day: what I did, what's the status, events... Even this text I'm writing first in such a note. I just need a place where I can write something. Regular notes are part of a large personal knowledge base in Obsidian, and it's hard to surprise anyone in our IT circles with this.
But it seems you can surprise them with the fact that I'm now writing them together with Claude Code as an assistant. In my last talk, I talked about how essentially modern coding agents can be stretched to any use case where there's some structure of text files and "rules" by which all this is written and structured. My use case is just another confirmation of this.
I kind of practice a completely programming approach, but the agent acts more like a personal scrum master.
Now I can start the day with the words "starting daily" to the agent in the notes folder, it'll look at the clock, read several recent days and in the process of filling can ask awesome contextual questions of different nature - either feeding reflection, or about current tasks.
For example, About work: "you worked on this problem yesterday, is there any progress?", "you asked that colleague a question, is there an answer?" About life: "how's your mood/health today?", "new music, events/contacts?", "what are your plans today?" About system organization: "I see you've been writing about such and such topic for several days, shall we create a separate note?", "you mentioned a link to this article, shall we write a summary?" Or philosophical: "what was good today, and what was bad?"
At the end of the week, you can come to it and ask to collect a weekly note, for which it will read the whole week and highlight the most important, help describe results and formulate goals for the next reporting period.
That is, thanks to the agent, a fun element of randomness is added to some routine processes, which is also useful as their constant driver. And fun is very important, otherwise the regularity of all these rituals can suffer.
And everything we loved AI and agents for doesn't go anywhere. In any unclear situation, you can dig deeper, ask to write a lasagna recipe in a separate note, a solution to problem N on LeetCode, or calculate how many concerts of Swedish bands you've been to because you felt like it right now.
In short, highly recommend.
The next level from here is to attach some agent to a remote repository with these notes, so that in some interface like ChatGPT from mobile you can ask questions about your knowledge base and throw content there. But that's another story.