I used Obsidian wrong for months. Here's the setup that finally stuck

After I removed the expectation that every note had to serve a larger system, Obsidian stopped feeling so complicated, and ...

I tried Gemini's 'scheduled actions' to automate my AI - the potential is enormous (but Google has work to do)

Here's what you can and cannot automate today via Gemini, including 15 ideas to use as starting points - and a bonus banana in a raincoat with an umbrella.