# Free Complete Guide to Obsidian Automation _The complete map of Obsidian automation, as a free 62-page PDF you can read offline, annotate, and keep._ ## What it is The PDF edition of [[The Complete Guide to Obsidian Automation - From Templates to an AI Operating System (Article)]]. Obsidian automation is three layers stacked on one idea: your notes are plain files, so anything can operate on them. The guide covers all three layers, in the order to adopt them: - **Part I: the mental model.** Your vault as an operating system for knowledge, the four stages of automation, and the biggest mistake (automating too early). - **Part II, Layer 1: automation inside [[Obsidian]].** The seven jobs plugins should do for you: notes that are born correct (see [[Templater plugin for Obsidian]]), capture under three seconds, filing you never think about, formatting, queryable notes, state machines in frontmatter, buttons and commands. - **Part III, Layer 2: automation around the vault.** Git, the command line, REST and MCP, URIs, backup and sync, scheduled jobs, publishing pipelines, ingestion, attachments, OS-level automation, mobile, batch operations. - **Part IV, Layer 3: AI agents on the vault.** Instruction files, skills, hooks, MCP, multi-agent workflows, agents on a schedule, vault maintenance that runs itself, and the risks. - **Part V: a real setup.** How a vault of 20,000+ notes runs with an AI assistant living inside it. - **Part VI: where this goes.** The AI operating system, why it compounds, and the adoption path to start today. Plus a FAQ and the full list of plugins and tools mentioned. The living version stays on the blog and is updated as the tooling evolves; the PDF is the edition you keep. ## Who it is for Obsidian users with a working vault who feel the daily friction: the same manual steps every day, notes that drift out of shape, ideas that never get filed, and no clear picture of where AI fits without handing their notes to a chatbot. Beginners should start with the free Beginner's Guide to Obsidian first, then come back. Everything in the guide is pre-built in the [[Obsidian Starter Kit]]. ## How to get it - Landing page (enter your email, the PDF arrives by email): https://www.dsebastien.net/free-complete-guide-to-obsidian-automation - Store page (free download): https://www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obsidian-automation-guide/ - Online version: https://www.dsebastien.net/the-complete-guide-to-obsidian-automation/ Subscribing also adds you to DeveloPassion's Newsletter (unsubscribe anytime). ## References - https://www.dsebastien.net/free-complete-guide-to-obsidian-automation - https://www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obsidian-automation-guide/ - https://www.dsebastien.net/the-complete-guide-to-obsidian-automation/ ## Related - [[The Complete Guide to Obsidian Automation - From Templates to an AI Operating System (Article)]] - [[Obsidian Starter Kit]] - [[Obsidian Starter Course]] - [[Knowii Community]] - [[Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)]]