The first todo list that works how I need it.

It’s February already. Where did January go? Wow… times go so fast currently. The news cycle is insane, and tech is in overdrive. So let’s dive in.

Claaaaawd

Feels like Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw happened all since last weekend, and now there is a social network being filled by conversations of bots? (Do we still call it agents?)

If you’ve missed all of this, here’s a fun video (Abre numa nova janela) I can actually recommend. Yeah it’s the Primagen guy, but this video is actually a worthwhile watch.

But here are my 2 cents on this.

1. The tech is actually cool, and it’s impressive to see what is possible if you take the leash off AI capabilities. So definitely something to be impressed by.

2. Don’t dive right in, giving your agent unrestricted access to everything, and attaching your credit card to free use of AI credits. Not because I don’t trust tech, but because I don’t trust people.

All it needs is some malicious actors, and they tell their agents to try EVERYTHING possible to retrieve information they should not have from other agents. And all it needs is one little loophole, and suddenly “no one could have seen that coming”.

The other thing is the moltbook conversations and all that. These texts often read very funny and we wonder: “Are they thinking? Is this AGI?” … these texts remind of the wave some years ago when people wrote how they forced their “AI” to watch all kinds of movies and write a script, and how entertaining the scripts ended up being. Yes … turned out in most cases people wrote it.

This time, I would not be surprised if it comes out that again people hinted at stuff. “Hey Agent, got and create a new religion, and make it fun” … AI is pretty good to do stuff based on a push. So … maybe don’t trust everything going on.

But lets get to my main topic this week.

A todo list that works

I used so many to-do lists in the past. I tried them all and even paid for some. BUT … as much as I tried and really wanted it to work, including cross-device sync and all that … it did not.

I’m currently in the process of trying to better understand how my brain functions, and why stuff that seems to work for others is just not working for me. So … this year I tried out something radically different, and AI should be the key to success.

1. I started to use Obsidian for note-taking. It’s simple notes and clear markdown files I can do anything with. So … that should be easy to use with any LLM locally, as it’s all in my file system.

2. Claude Code is actually pretty good at setting up flows and working through numerous files quickly.

Therefore, I decided to combine these two things into an entirely new approach. I created a new file in my Obsidian vault, which should keep track of all my TODOs, but I knew I should not be the one managing it. I focused on Claude doing that for me instead, so I brainstormed with Claude and started on how I would like to work with TODOS.

Make it work for me!

Here’s what I knew I needed.

1. Organize tasks for me - I don’t want to group things manually, and tasks can be ANYWHERE in my notes.

2. Use dates, so there are deadlines for me (and I don’t want to write dates)

3. Clean up old tasks as I don’t want to lose them (but don’t want to see them).

4. Work in Markdown. (yay Obsidian)

So … here’s what we (me and Claude) came up with. Use custom commands, which should consistently do what I need them to. Claude offers something called skills but you can actually get that working with ANY LLM, as long as you tell it where to find those. (I originally had it in a Commands.md file)

/today - this should list all my tasks I should do today.

/sync - this should go through all the markdown files, and collect everything that looks like a todo. e.g. I write notes like TODO: set up meeting with Eva next week

/cleanup - clean up and organize my tasks again, so they don’t overwhelm me.

This setup works wonders. I can actually now write things down however I want. The todo I left in my notes gets turned into:

- [ ] Set up meeting with Eva (due: 2026-02-09) #work

… and I don’t need to do anything. It all works and organizes neatly for me, and I have a system running for almost 3 weeks now, I actually use and it works. Longer than I ever have used a todo list app. I’ll make a longer video on that in the future, but if you want an inspiration, you can ind my current setup ready to download here (Abre numa nova janela).

Otherwise, just customize everything to your needs. It’s easy.

If you have questions, just let me know.

Till next time.