What they did
Scott Farrar, a math educator and parent, moved his home admin out of AI chats that forgot context and into Claude Code working on a folder of Markdown files, which he views in Obsidian. The files hold his appliances, warranties, insurance documents and the family to-do list. Claude suggested what to photograph first to fill it in. He uses it to compare car insurance quotes, plan repairs and track household tasks, shares the same system with his wife, and puts priority tasks and recent wins on a DAKboard wall display. He walked through it in a video episode with Claire Vo.
How it went
Farrar says it made him a sharper insurance shopper and that the shared to-do file is the part he keeps returning to. The episode notes give no numbers on time or money saved, and they mention a section on what happens when the AI gets out of sync with the files.
Worth knowing
The knowledge base is plain text files, so it outlives any one chat and two people can share it. Expect to spend time feeding it photos and documents before it is useful. Obsidian and DAKboard are only viewers here; Claude Code does the reading and writing. Farrar's own write-up is linked.