Recipes
Recipes are self-contained guides for setting up specific Jesse capabilities. Each one covers what it does, what you need, what to add to your instruction file, and what to watch out for. Adopt them piecemeal – each recipe stands alone, and none are required.
Connect Your Tools
Wire your communication tools into the morning routine.
| Recipe | What it does |
|---|---|
| Email Integration | Scanning Gmail, Fastmail, or other email for action items during the morning routine |
| Slack Integration | Scanning Slack channels and DMs with timestamp-gated reads to avoid stale data and missed messages |
| WhatsApp Integration | Scanning WhatsApp chats for action items via a local bridge |
| iOS Obsidian Quick-Note Shortcut | Two-tap iOS Shortcut that drops timestamped quick-capture notes into the vault’s Inbox/ folder |
Daily Workflow
Patterns that structure the day-to-day rhythm.
| Recipe | What it does |
|---|---|
| Birthday and Date Reminders | Multi-stage reminders for birthdays, holidays, document expirations, and recurring dates using Obsidian Reminders |
| Meeting Agendas | Auto-generated agenda drafts for every meeting on your calendar |
| Draft Lifecycle | Managing active drafts, archiving sent communications, and extracting key details |
| People Knowledge Base | Automatic contact directory maintenance with categorization and cross-linking |
| Weekly Vault Maintenance | Automated hygiene: broken links, naming conventions, archive cleanup |
Writing and Research
Standards for what the agent produces.
| Recipe | What it does |
|---|---|
| Research | Structured, source-backed research output with citations, variant tracking, and actionability sections |
| Writing Voice | Catch and fix AI writing tells before publishing or sending |
| Semantic Vault Search | Optional. Local semantic search over your vault using QMD. Requires ~2 GB on disk for models |
Health and Home
Optional life-tracking capabilities that show how far the pattern stretches.
| Recipe | What it does |
|---|---|
| Diet & Exercise Tracking | Optional. Daily nutrition and exercise tracking over append-only CSV activity logs, with a first-run setup wizard, a floors/ceilings/windows macro model, an extensible day-style registry, adaptive calorie targets with a tracker-overestimation haircut, weight tracking with trend analysis and progress visualization, body composition metrics, weekly accountability reports, and a persistent HTML dashboard |
| Cookbook | Optional. Personal cookbook with family reviews, cooking tool references, ingredient-driven meal design, and diet tracker integration |
Contributing a Recipe
Have a recipe to share? See Contributing for the template and process.