I tracked every async writing block for 90 days. Output nearly doubled — but not how I expected. (opens in new tab)

Switching from Obsidian-first drafting to Claude-first drafting nearly doubled my usable words per 90-minute block: from ~420 to ~780. That number surprised me. The failure mode surprised me more. For the first six weeks I drafted in Obsidian — vault, MOCs, Templater scripts, the whole setup. The graph view is genuinely beautiful. It's also a distraction engine when you need 800 words out before a client call. I logged every block with Toggl and checked output against a plain Notion table. My...