I build Rube Goldberg machines. Show me a simple workflow and I will find three ways to bolt extra components onto it. Custom scripts. Half-built automations. Plugins solving problems I didn’t have.
Nick Milo does the opposite.
He just posted a 60-second video showing Claude and Obsidian working together through Cowork. No elaborate setup. No custom scripts. Point Cowork at your vault and start a conversation. That’s it.
It is the most distilled demonstration of agent-assisted thinking I’ve seen in months. An entire category of capability, delivered in less time than it takes to make coffee.
This is Nick’s gift. He watches a tool, finds the essence and strips away everything that isn’t. The Linking Your Thinking community has watched him do this for years with Obsidian itself. Now he’s doing it with Claude.
I’d have made a 40-minute tutorial with a custom MCP server and six sub-workflows nobody needed. Nick made a 60-second short that anyone can replicate before lunch.
The skill is not technical. It’s editorial. Knowing what to leave out is the hardest part of any intelligence stack, and Nick keeps showing us how it’s done.
Rube Goldberg, cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg