Why I Built It
I can read 30 articles in a week, flag the interesting ones, and by Sunday remember almost none of them.
The missing step was not more capture. It was a forcing function between consuming an idea and deciding what I think about it.
The Loop
Each week gets one topic. Articles, podcast clips, and voice notes land in Discord, where I react to the ideas worth keeping. Claude uses those reactions—not just the raw reading list—to create a structured synthesis in my Obsidian vault.
The constraint is the product: not “learn more about AI,” but “this week, what is actually happening with AI data-center buildout?”
What Makes It Useful
- Discord keeps the input and reactions lightweight
- Heart, star, bookmark, and skip reactions tell the system what I actually care about
/asklets me question the week’s source material while it is still fresh/synthesizeproduces the essay;/publishsaves it to the vault
Status
The system has fetched 512 articles and generated 215+ structured cards. It runs continuously for about $3 a month. The useful output is not the volume—it is having a point of view I can find again.
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