Hey, I’m Kolby
I write about building AI-powered knowledge systems, network security, and the tools that tie them together.
Part 1: How I Got Here
How I Turned Obsidian into an AI-Powered Knowledge System Part 1: How I Got Here This is Part 1 of a 6-part series on building an AI-powered knowledge system with Obsidian and Claude Code. How I Got Here – you are here The Architecture That Fixed It Teaching an AI Agent Your Note-Taking Rules Building Workflows That Run Themselves Searching 3,300 Notes in Seconds Connecting the Vault to the Outside World I’m a network and security engineer. On any given week I’m in 15-20 meetings across multiple clients, juggling firewall migrations, SD-WAN deployments, FedRAMP authorization tracks (let’s not talk about FedRAMP), Prisma Access management, and vendor escalations. Every one of those threads generates notes, decisions, action items, and reference material that I need to find again later. ...