Hermes turns voice ideas into Obsidian notes

Mete Polat's Hermes and Obsidian account begins with the article itself. During a dog walk he sent messy voice notes to his agent, Satori, through Telegram. By the time he returned to write, the material had become an Obsidian thought note with raw transcripts, an organized argument, related context and an agent draft. Polat says he wrote the article himself.

A recurring business-idea workflow makes the steps more explicit. Hermes transcribes a voice message, creates a note in the ideas folder, adds metadata and tags, preserves the transcript and produces an organized version. It then researches the idea against a framework Polat developed with it, covering competitors, unanswered questions, differentiation and a possible minimum viable product.

The practical outcome is a structured one-page idea record instead of another bullet in a long, difficult-to-review list. Polat uses that record to decide whether to investigate further and to prepare material for coding agents.

The source describes a personal system in active use, while calling the setup messy. The agent's research and draft are material for the owner's judgment, not proof that a business idea is viable. Keeping the raw transcript alongside its interpretation also lets him inspect what changed.

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Source: metedata.substack.com · Mete Polat