“It's going to remind me that you've been waiting since September 24th on this. And it's really actually moved me forward on so many projects that I've actually kind of run out of pending fires. And I was like, oh, that's a new experience. I used to have a backlog and now it's the balls on everyone else's court.”
How I AI · AI Builders · November 2026
Context
Claire Vo asked whether his Claude Code and Obsidian household brain actually changes his behavior. Scott says that because tasks and next steps live in markdown files, Claude keeps nudging him, and he has cleared his own backlog of household projects.
Transcript
…And then maybe some longer term stuff that's like needs attention and just some stuff for my kids. I also made a section of recent wins just to say like, good job. You did fix that or you found out what iPads were out of date with software. You fixed the water heater in one day. Great job, Dad.
…on and we would like move it on this physical board. And then we had like a wall of wins. And I like that you were bringing that very wonderful scrub master energy to your household, household management. Do you find that this like helps you get stuff done? Does it actually change your behavior?
It does. It does because when it has built a checklist for me, like on the insurance, all these next steps or open items, they are not like lost in my memory of like, oh, I should do that, just like a should thought in my head. It's recorded somewhere and it's like, well, come back every time I do something in any chat, it might remind me of like, hey, actually, you're overdue on something. Like it's going to remind me that you've been waiting since September 24th on this. And so it's really actually has moved me forward on so many projects that I've actually kind of like run out of pending fires. And I was like, oh, that's a new experience. I used to have a backlog and now I'm, now I actually, it's the balls on everyone else's court. Like I'm always sending the email and it's, I'm waiting on them. And that's been really nice.
So give me, just give me the list of, you know, if somebody's like lives in their house as an adult, give me a list of like, here are household tasks you should just get your AI to think about. So I saw repairs. I saw like comparison shopping. What else? What's on, what's on the list so people can…
So here's the, here's what's in this to-do list. There's repairs. There's a little bit of like, yeah, insurance, financial, maybe like future planning, wills, guardianship, trusts, retirement funds. Like if you want to consolidate your retirement, actually, that's a huge headache that I've been…
I really love this. And what I'm seeing here, it looks like this is invoking a skill or a plug-in to just follow your little process.
More from How I AI
