I Built a Personalized AI Life Coach with Obsidian + Claude — Here's the Exact Setup

The author built a personalized AI life coaching system by combining Obsidian as a structured personal knowledge base with Claude as the reasoning layer. The vault uses organized Markdown folders for daily notes, goals, career info, and self-analysis, which Claude reads at the start of each session to build persistent context. This approach eliminates the need to re-explain personal background every conversation, resulting in highly personalized and contextually grounded AI advice.