This post is awesome! I was literally thinking about starting to test out Claude’s MCP and have been talking about it with my partner because I am going to need his help.
I was thinking it could help me with creating base tables. Which I haven’t dare yet to try but I am sort of dying to give them a go.
Thanks for writing about your process in such details 😊
This is a damned awesome piece. Eleanor. As always, thanks for your amazing writing, insights, experimentation, and generosity in reporting back on your experiences.
Back when Claude's MCP first came out (or when I first started playing with it) in December 2024, I set up the filesystem MCP and pointed it at my Obsidian vault. At the time, I wasn't able to get it to do the things you describe (I have a lot of abandoned or decaying metadata systems, too).
I will have to go back and try again with almost eight months of development in the space.
The workflow I currently use is Obsidian Notes > Google Drive > Gemini. This came about somewhat by chance; I was already syncing my Obsidian notes with Drive for backup purposes. The integration with Gemini suddenly became available, and it works well. There's currently a 50-file limit for file-specific questions in Gemini, but that's sufficient for my needs. My original intention was not to connect AI to my notes at all, but now that it's happened by chance, I actually find it quite useful.
This post is awesome! I was literally thinking about starting to test out Claude’s MCP and have been talking about it with my partner because I am going to need his help.
I was thinking it could help me with creating base tables. Which I haven’t dare yet to try but I am sort of dying to give them a go.
Thanks for writing about your process in such details 😊
Oh I'm so glad to hear! If you run into anything tricky feel free to reach out and I'll try to help!
This is a damned awesome piece. Eleanor. As always, thanks for your amazing writing, insights, experimentation, and generosity in reporting back on your experiences.
Thanks for sharing Eleanor! I've been messing with this combo as well
Has anything interesting come of it yet?
I didn't know you were into Minecraft Control Protocol :):):)
Ironically, I used to teach Minecraft modding & redstone summer classes.
Back when Claude's MCP first came out (or when I first started playing with it) in December 2024, I set up the filesystem MCP and pointed it at my Obsidian vault. At the time, I wasn't able to get it to do the things you describe (I have a lot of abandoned or decaying metadata systems, too).
I will have to go back and try again with almost eight months of development in the space.
Thank you for sharing these ideas.
Let me know if you run into trouble with it this time around and maybe I can help troubleshoot or find out what I did differently :)
The workflow I currently use is Obsidian Notes > Google Drive > Gemini. This came about somewhat by chance; I was already syncing my Obsidian notes with Drive for backup purposes. The integration with Gemini suddenly became available, and it works well. There's currently a 50-file limit for file-specific questions in Gemini, but that's sufficient for my needs. My original intention was not to connect AI to my notes at all, but now that it's happened by chance, I actually find it quite useful.
Do you use Mac or Windows, out of curiosity?
I mainly use Linux, and sometimes Windows for work.