Obsidian on SQP Dev

Pushing the Vault to TickTick — Closing the Loop Between Obsidian and Task Management

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The vault knows everything. It has the lesson schedule, the practice sessions, the quiz material. TickTick is where the day actually runs — it sits in the calendar, it sends reminders, it blocks time. For a while those two lived separately, and any reschedule meant updating both by hand.

Today that gap is closed.

The Problem

Obsidian is the source of truth for the learning plan. But TickTick is what I actually look at during the day. When a lesson moved, I’d update the calendar note in Obsidian and then forget to touch TickTick. Or update TickTick and leave the vault behind. Either way, something was always out of sync.

Building an AI-Powered Quiz Into the Learning Loop

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Answering questions in your own words is good for learning. Answering them by clicking a button is better than not answering them at all.

That sounds like a low bar, but it’s actually the insight that shaped the quiz system. At 20:00 after a full day I’m not going to write paragraphs about container networking from memory. But I will click through ten multiple choice questions if the friction is low enough and the questions are good.

Reclaim, Google Calendar, and the Morning Briefing Skill

Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The moment that changed the whole system was realising that Claude Code is a terrible calendar manager.

Not because it can’t do it — it can. The Google Calendar MCP integration works, skills can create and update events, everything is technically possible. The problem is cost. Every calendar operation burns tokens. Reschedule five tasks and you’ve spent more on API calls than the Reclaim monthly subscription.

So I made a clean decision: Claude Code never touches the calendar for scheduling. That’s Reclaim’s job.

Structuring the Vault Around a Real Learning Plan

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Once the task manager question was settled, I could focus on what the vault actually needed to contain.

The goal was simple: every Docker and Kubernetes lesson should have a home in the vault before I watch it, a note created during it, and a review scheduled after it. No manual steps, no decisions to make in the moment.

The Learning Plan Structure

The Udemy course has 26 lessons spread across Docker and Kubernetes. I mapped them to a 5-week calendar: two sessions per day this week at 09:30 and 11:00, then one session per day at 06:35 from June onwards when I shift to an earlier schedule.

TickTick, Todoist, Reclaim — Finding the Right Task Manager

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every learning system needs somewhere tasks live. I went through three tools in fairly quick succession, and each one taught me something useful.

TickTick — The Comfortable Choice

I started with TickTick because I already knew it. Simple interface, good mobile app, doesn’t require an hour of setup to get started. For general life tasks it’s perfectly good.

The problem was the edges. TickTick doesn’t connect naturally to Obsidian. There’s no clean way to link a task in TickTick to a note in Obsidian, and no way to query TickTick tasks from inside the vault. Every time I finished a lesson and wanted to log it, I was switching apps, copying information, doing the same thing twice.

Claude Code as a Vault Brain — First Steps

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The DevOps Learning Command Center dashboard existed. The problem was keeping it alive.

A learning system that requires manual maintenance eventually stops being maintained. I wanted Claude Code — the terminal-based AI agent from Anthropic — to handle the vault upkeep so I could focus on the actual learning.

What Claude Code Does

Claude Code runs in your terminal and has direct access to your filesystem. It reads files, writes files, runs commands. Combined with a CLAUDE.md context file that explains who you are and what the vault is for, it becomes something like a personal assistant that actually knows your project.

Building a DevOps DevOps Learning Command Center in Obsidian

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’m 56, learning DevOps from scratch, and I have a problem with tools.

Not using them — I love tools. The problem is spending more time building the perfect learning environment than actually learning. It’s a trap I know well and fall into anyway.

This time I decided to be deliberate about it. If I was going to build a system, it would be one that genuinely serves the learning — not just looks good in screenshots.