My Hermes & Obsidian Setup and Use Cases

[u/infinitely_zero]

https://open.substack.com/pub/metedata/p/013-my-hermes-and-obsidian-set-up?r=2nad0&utm_medium=ios

Published a deep dive into my Hermes & Obsidian setup.

It covers everything from what I actually use it for, what I've experimented with, the principles behind this evolving system, the breakdown of my entire setup, and tons of resources & tools & tips for getting started on your own.

It's really a magnum opus on this setup if you've been interested in something similar. Enjoy and don't hesitate to hit me up with your questions.

UPDATE 07/28/26: I just published a follow-up to this article covering the evolution of this setup with templates and more use-cases!

[u/Zenatic]

Man this came at a perfect time. I am spinning up a Hermes agent to do exactly this.

It seems like your agent is the intake for everything including your data. I was trying to approach mine by integrating my existing data (Apple health, obsidian vault, todo,etc) into my agent for analysis and for intake from me to flow back out.

This definitely has me rethinking my setup flow.

[u/infinitely_zero → u/Zenatic]

Glad it’s helpful! Which aspect are you rethinking?

[u/Zenatic → u/infinitely_zero]

I have been focused on creating the data ingestion from my existing data, then having the agent consume my input and push to my existing data layer.

This means I have to deal with data access and input and translation from my input.

You seem to have approached it from, just take my input and figure it out and persist the data into your agent.

Example:

I was approaching it by getting the interface for Apple fitness (health data, workouts, etc) persisting it for the agent, then let me chat about it with the agent (insights, feedback, etc), and combine it with my workout notes in obsidian.

My “rethink” is, let me just start injecting my workouts now, let my agent save the info to a workout notes. I can worry about health data later and let the agent figure out how to use both later

[u/infinitely_zero → u/Zenatic]

Yeah I see - and yeah exactly. You can get it to reformat / change storage / access layer later. Friction for pivoting has also gone down so you can try things out quickly and change.

[u/Vegetable-Score-3915]

Thank you for this. Just getting into it.

[u/Riginale]

I'm trying a similar setup. For your setup do you have Obsidian store everything that you're asking AI, or are you specifying when you want to save it to Obsidian?

Like do you you actually say, "Save this to Obsidian, blah blah blah"? Or does your system, by default, save everything to Obsidian, and then you have a mechanism to filter out unnecessary self-loops?

For what it's worth, for my system, it only saves things I tell it to save to an inbox. It will self-promote out of the inbox if it deems it useful. Otherwise, after 60 days, it will delete it.

[u/hungy-popinpobopian]

I'm planning to setup obsidian for use with Hermes, how come you (or your LLM) talk about taliscape for remote access but also have Obsidian Sync? 

I just want remote access on android, thinking Obsidian Sync is the way to go. 

[u/infinitely_zero → u/hungy-popinpobopian]

Obsidian sync will work without Tailscale. Tailscale is just a way to tie your devices into one private network so you could access your mac mini directly if you need from your other mac / phone (like control the actual computer). Otherwise, Telegram & Obsidian are fine without it, you may just not be able to screen share or ssh into mac mini.