The Claude and Obsidian combo is great. You can offload all the hard parts of managing the workflow to the robots. I've taken to analyzing my daily notes—a stream-of-consciousness mind dump—for new Zettel notes, projects, ideas, and so on. Gemini does just fine, too, though.
Yes, that's true. I'm keeping it to work-related mind-dumps only. I definitely self-edit before I do so. I find there's tons of value in doing it, but it's not totally raw thoughts.
No, I just write things in the work journal whenever I feel like it. It’s a mind dump. Then when I’m doing the traditional end of the week review, I’ll analyze it. It’s all very free form.
It works wonders though, like spelunking your raw thoughts.