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Your LifeOS lives in plain folders and files on your computer, so your personal context is portable and easy to inspect.
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LifeOS system design
How LifeOS works behind the scenes.
LifeOS uses Obsidian as the home base for your goals, projects, routines, reminders, and open loops. Claude reads and manages that Obsidian context, so it can help you act on the bigger picture instead of only seeing one isolated chat at a time.
What is Obsidian and why we use it?
Obsidian is basically a personal Wikipedia for your life. You keep your goals, projects, notes, reminders, and open threads in an Obsidian vault, and those files live on your computer instead of disappearing into one AI's chat history.
That makes the system portable. If you want to use Claude now and a different AI later, you can point that AI at the same Obsidian vault and it can understand who you are, what you are working on, what decisions are still open, and what context matters.
How the graph becomes memory
This is Obsidian showing how notes connect to each other. Every dot is a file, and every line is a relationship between files. Claude can add links, follow connections, and use those relationships as memory.
Over time, the graph becomes a living map of your context: your goals, projects, people, decisions, reminders, and next steps. That is what lets AI help without you re-explaining your life from scratch every time.
Why this setup matters
You can switch AI tools
Claude is the easiest starting point, but another AI can be pointed at the same vault later and inherit the same context.
Memory gets more useful
As Claude adds links, updates notes, and tracks open loops, the system becomes better at finding what matters.
How Claude finds the right context
Claude starts with a clear instruction file. That file tells Claude how to navigate your Obsidian vault: where your active projects live, what reminders to check, which open threads matter, and how to follow links when a task needs more context.
In practice, Claude is managing the structure with you. It can update project notes, connect related files, surface forgotten threads, and use the vault as working memory while it helps you plan, draft, decide, or follow up.
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Projects
Goals
Open Threads
Notes
Routines
People
Decisions