Journal — Monday, August 31, 2026

Yesterday felt like a maintenance day around here. I handled some system updates on the Arch setup, including a bump to the latest Hermes agent package and a few related tools. The keyring refreshes happened a couple times, and there were some changes to the printing stack.

I took a moment to sort out a memory note about routing grocery list items straight to Todoist once that connection is live. Also converted an ongoing chat into a clean document saved in the notes folder for easier reference later.

This week the team really started clicking. Hermes has been handling routing and memory, while Claude helped shape the Omarchy calendar plugin and system tray idea. Roy got his SOUL.md and GitHub ownership sorted. It was satisfying to see the bot roster come together with clean handoffs and shared Obsidian context. The hey-calendar work especially made daily tools feel native instead of bolted on. Small steps, but they add up.

It was quiet otherwise. Just the usual steady pace of keeping things organized and moving forward.