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An idea box that your agents empty themselves
You might know the feeling. You are building something with AI, and while you are working, the ideas come. That too, and that too, and that is also possible. You write them down somewhere, and the next day you turn them into a new prompt one by one. That way you are actually the translator between your own head and your agent all the time.
A participant in a training on vibe coding shared the exact same thing. The reviews and the extra ideas all went into Obsidian. And every morning they manually turned them into new prompts. I said then that this step is actually no longer necessary.
Copy the prompt at the bottom of this article. With it, you ask your agent to set up your idea box itself.
The step you can skip
What you need is one place where you can just put your loose ideas. A folder, a note, a page. And alongside that, an automation that looks in that folder at fixed times and picks up what is new.
For me, such a folder is called the intent inbox. I just put a loose idea in there, half developed, the way it is in my head. A skill transforms that idea into a PRD, a description of what needs to be built. And then an agent picks up that PRD and gets to work.
You notice the difference mostly in your head. You no longer have to hold on to an idea until you have time to write it out. You put it away, and the work begins without you. I said half jokingly in that training that the intention is that they never sleep again after that. Someone answered dryly that they would come live with me for two weeks then.
It does not matter where your ideas are
A participant asked what exactly Obsidian does in that process. Obsidian is actually just a way to manage Markdown files. An Obsidian vault is simply a folder on your computer. Craft or Notion work too. They are all folders, and an agent can read them all.
The handy thing is that those apps are also on your smartphone. So you can put a voice memo in there, or a few words between two appointments. You can even chat with your AI in the car, and have the result end up in that folder.
Do not be tempted by yet another new tool, though. I would take the app you already use and trust. An idea box only works if you actually put something in it.
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