Holiday Hack 🎅 "Duet" Obsidian Plugin

I "built" a silly little Obsidian plugin called Duet.

My writing workflow lately has me using AI quite a bit. I still, though, think that writing manually is very useful for thinking. And I'm quite concerned about "just" throwing some AI-generated text at someone unless I am confident I can stand behind it. Ultimately, respect for the reader's time is paramount.

In my workflow:

• I outline with Claude, letting it help me structure my thoughts and fill in gaps I hadn't considered.
• Then I ask it to generate some boilerplate text, the kind of foundational prose that gets ideas on the page but might not be in my voice. And it often isn't really what I want to say.
• I rewrite almost everything, reworking the AI's output until it sounds like me. The structure might stay, but the voice becomes mine.
• At various points along the way, I jump back to Claude and ask it for flow, clarity, concision, and "single voice" suggestions.

I'm practically addicted to Claude Code, so I used the annoying copy+paste shuttling as an excuse to build an Obsidian plugin to streamline the workflow. Now I can outline, generate, revise, and polish without leaving my note-taking app.

It's pretty wild how easy it was to write a plugin. Normally I'd set aside some time to learn the environ, the norms, the frameworks, etc. This... there was practically none of that. Wild.

You can find it at the GitHub repo.