ANTHROPIC'S LEAD ENGINEER ACCIDENTALLY LEAKED HIS PERSONAL OBSIDIAN VAULT.... INSIDE - NO CODE, NO PROMPTS. JUST A SCHEMATIC OF HIS OWN MIND, BUILT LIKE A NEURAL NETWORK 8,893 nodes. 4,729 links. A $10-a-month app opens Obsidian. 21 inputs, 10+ hidden layers, ReLU activation. First layer 64 neurons, then 37, then 22, all the way to the output. Thousands of connections firing in real time this isn't a concept diagram from a blog - it's a living brain that actually runs decisions inside the company. 9,000 documents, each its own knowledge space, all interconnected he makes around $2M a year for putting markdown files into the right folders. The company building the best AI in the world manages its internal knowledge with the same app a college freshman uses for lecture notes. hasn't written a single line of infrastructure for any of it. three years of discipline and one open Obsidian tab you're reading this on a device where you could open the same Obsidian tonight and start building your own vaultshow more

AN ANTHROPIC LEAD ENGINEER ACCIDENTALLY LEAKED HIS PERSONAL OBSIDIAN.... INSIDE - NOT CODE OR PROMPTS, BUT A DIAGRAM OF HIS OWN BRAIN, ORGANIZED AS A NEURAL NETWORK 8,893 nodes. 4,729 connections. A $10/month app opens Obsidian. 21 inputs, ReLU on every layer. The first hidden layer has 26 neurons, followed by 33, then 24, and so on all the way to the output. Thousands of connections flash in real time this isn’t a conceptual diagram from a blog, but a living brain that powers decision-making within the company. 9,000 documents, each with its own semantic space, all interconnected it earns about $2m a year for sorting Markdown files into the right folders. The company that builds the world’s best AI maintains its internal knowledge base in the same app that a freshman uses for class notes three years of discipline and a single open Obsidian tab you’re reading this on a device where, tonight, you can open that same Obsidian and start building your own vaultshow more

YOUR OBSIDIAN VAULT READS ALL 2,000 NOTES TO ANSWER... ONE QUESTION. THAT'S NOT A SECOND BRAIN. That's a hoarder with markdown files. Hundreds of thousands of tokens burned per answer, and it still grabs the wrong note half the time. A real second brain runs on a graph: a router, an index, nodes, edges. Fable 5 reads 2-3 files instead of the whole vault. Answer back in under a second. The graph view everyone screenshots in Obsidian is a poster. The index is the actual engine. Full 11-step build below, from raw vault to working graph 👇show more

THIS GUY HAD 1,283 NOTES AND HIS SYSTEM WAS... DUMBER THAN A FOLDER that galaxy in the background is his Obsidian vault > looks incredible > does nothing dead notes, zero connections, zero value extracted from any of it > the fix isn't taking better notes > it's building a pipeline where Claude Opus 4.8 does the research, NotebookLM does the analysis, and every session feeds your vault automatically one command: > Claude Code searches YouTube for 10 relevant sources > passes them to NotebookLM - Google's servers do the heavy processing, not your tokens > NotebookLM runs full analysis, generates infographics, mindmaps, flashcards > everything lands as structured markdown in your Obsidian vault, linked and ready total time: 6 minutes > after a month the vault knows your thinking style. after a year it's a trained research assistant the $300K AI architects aren't taking better notes > they're building systems that compound 30-minute setup. full step-by-step in the article below 👇show more

THIS DEVELOPER USED A 10,000+ STAR OBSIDIAN REPO TO... TURN HIS GROWING VAULT INTO A SEARCHABLE AI MEMORY SYSTEM most people keep adding notes until the graph looks impressive but nobody can find the exact context when a real task starts new note → ai summary → entity links → backlinks → graph update → claude retrieves the right 3–5 files instead of scanning the entire vault the system connects projects, decisions, research, and unfinished ideas, so old context resurfaces automatically instead of disappearing inside hundreds of folders he built the workflow around Claudian, an open-source repo with 10,000+ GitHub stars that brings Claude Code directly into Obsidian → bookmark this before your next 1,000 notes become another beautiful graph that your AI still cannot useshow more

This is how you compress 100 hours of content... into 10 minutes! just tried NotebookLM + Obsidian and it's actually insane > the "YouTube to NotebookLM" extension lets you dump entire channels into NotebookLM and get a structured mega-summary in minutes > Audio Overviews turns any PDF, report or notes into a podcast-style dialogue - perfect for walking or driving > Book Filter: upload your Obsidian vault + a new book, ask "is there anything new for me here?" - if no, skip it and save dozens of hours this combo feels like compression for knowledge the stack: 📁 NotebookLM ↳ 📁 YouTube to NotebookLM Chrome Extension ↳ this combo + Obsidian vault = unfair advantageshow more

An Asian guy discovered a method to learn any... knowledge fast using AI. The key is Claude + Obsidian. Most people learn slowly: read, forget, read again, forget again. His method: use Claude to break any content into small, interconnected notes. Use Obsidian to link them, so every piece of knowledge is never isolated. Slow method: highlight books, keep going, forget after a week. Fast method: Claude breaks it into atomic notes, Obsidian links them into a network. Six months later, a new idea instantly connects to twenty things you already know. I compiled the full A–Z guide to building this second brain with Claude and Obsidian that most people have never discovered. Article belowshow more

HERMES AGENT HAS A SECOND BRAIN. 1,100+ KNOWLEDGE FILES.... AUTO-LINKED. SELF-IMPROVING. GROWING EVERY NIGHT. THIS IS THE OBSIDIAN GRAPH BEHIND IT. every dot = one knowledge file (markdown) every line = one wiki-link between files every color = one category (skills, notes, decisions, sources, entities) HOW IT BUILDS ITSELF: Hermes ships with a bundled LLM Wiki skill. based on Andrej Karpathy's pattern. unlike RAG (rediscovers knowledge from scratch every query), the wiki compiles knowledge once and keeps it current. when you feed the agent a source: → it reads the content → writes a structured markdown page → auto-links to every related existing page → flags contradictions with previous entries → updates all affected pages one source in. multiple connections created. the graph grows denser with every entry. WHAT FEEDS THE WIKI: → articles and URLs you find interesting → meeting transcripts → PDF documents and research papers → conversation history from Hermes sessions → Claude Code and Codex session history → Slack logs, email threads, saved notes → YouTube transcripts → raw text dropped into a _raw/ folder the obsidian-wiki package supports multi-agent ingest from Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Pi, Windsurf, and ChatGPT exports. install: pip install obsidian-wiki obsidian-wiki setup --vault ~/wiki AUTOMATE THE GROWTH: set cron jobs to feed the wiki overnight: "every day at 9am, check for new meetings. ingest transcripts into the wiki." "every week, check arXiv for new papers in [niche]. summarize and file into the wiki." "every day, ingest today's Hermes sessions into the wiki under session-history." month 1: 50 entries. scattered. month 3: 300+ entries. cross-referenced. month 6: 1,000+ entries. the agent surfaces patterns you never searched for. WHY OBSIDIAN: the wiki is plain markdown files. no database. no lock-in. open it in Obsidian for graph view: → nodes show knowledge density → links show how ideas connect → clusters reveal your strongest domains → orphan nodes reveal gaps Hermes writes from a VPS. Obsidian reads on your laptop. obsidian-headless syncs without a GUI. agent writes from the server, you browse on your device. FOUR MEMORY LAYERS: Layer 1: memory.md + user.md (~2,200 + 1,375 chars. short-term.) Layer 2: SQLite with FTS5 (full session transcripts. searchable.) Layer 3: external providers (Mem0, SuperMemory, Honcho. optional.) Layer 4: Obsidian wiki via LLM Wiki skill (unlimited. compounding. the long-term brain.) layers 1-3 handle memory. layer 4 handles knowledge. the graph in this post is layer 4. SETUP: set in Desktop app, Dashboard, or config.yaml: WIKI_PATH=~/wiki OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH=~/wiki first run: Hermes asks for your domain. answer with your niche. the skill builds SCHEMA.md with tag taxonomy. after that: "index this into my wiki: [URL or text]" the wiki grows. the graph densifies. the agent gets smarter because the knowledge base got smarter. full 15 levels breakdown in the article 👇show more

This is the best AI agent-first notes app I've... found. It's called . It has the potential to be a productized version of Karpathy's "LLM Wiki" knowledge bases. Here's what I did: 1. Imported "Learning, Fast and Slow" a Continual Learning paper 2. Asked OpenKnowledge to create a visual explainer 3. Read the explainer and had Claude explain to me 4. Created a new section of my own understanding 5. Saved the durable version in my Obsidian vault because it's markdown Free and open-source. Absolutely incredible learning tool.show more

I HAVEN’T OPENED A SINGLE BOOK THIS MONTH. CLAUDE... READ 34 OF THEM FOR ME I built a vault in Obsidian, connected Claude and added Notebooklm went to sleep woke up with flashcards, mind maps, and an AI that answers from my own notes only my friends are still highlighting pdfs manually the only thing separating us is one setup: claude + obsidian + notebooklm every idea captured. every book processed. zero knowledge lost if this is the setup you’ve been looking for - like & bookmark so you don’t lose itshow more

Karpathy method + Claude Code reading your whole Obsidian... vault is the smartest second brain on earth. The method is simple and brutal. If you can’t build a thing from scratch, you don’t know it. Tutorials are fake learning and your brain deletes them in 3 days. Most people ignore this. They build a second brain that just sits there, folders of notes nobody reopens, dead text. Point Claude Code at the vault and it wakes up. 5,000 notes, one mind. It reads all of it and answers in your own words and your own proofs, not a model’s guess. Then the loop closes. Want to understand neural nets? Skip the 3-hour video and ask Claude Code to build a tiny one. 200 lines from scratch. Watch it train, break a layer, watch it fail, fix it. It clicks in 20 minutes instead of 3 weeks. The second it lands the note gets written. One idea per file, linked to 10 others, dropped into the vault while the memory is still hot. Now it compounds. Month 1: is 60 notes. Month 6 is 900. Every new note pulls in old ones, so you ask anything and the answer comes from your brain, not the internet. Before: 40 tabs, 6 half read PDF, 0 retained. After: build it once, own it for life. Setup takes 4 minutes. Plain text, no lock-in. A second brain nobody reads is a graveyard. Yours just started thinking.show more

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this... yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain. You point Claude Code at a folder, drop in any source, an article, a transcript, a PDF, and Claude reads it, links it, and files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest, the more you feed it, the smarter it gets. Here's the whole thing: > Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code > Paste Karpathy's wiki idea file and tell Claude to build it > Claude makes three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, a CLAUDE.md that runs it > Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this" > Ask questions across everything, forever Five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again. Full step-by-step guide with Claude and Obsidian, link below. Bookmark thisshow more

PLUGGED CLAUDE CODE INTO OBSIDIAN AND MY DEAD VAULT... STARTED FIRING LIKE A NEURAL NETWORK 13,000 notes written by hand over 4 years, and search worked fine that was the problem, because search only gives back what you already remember well enough to ask for The graph view never helped either, just a pretty picture nobody actually reads Here is what almost nobody uses: Obsidian keeps your entire vault as plain markdown in a folder on disk, with no database, no export, no API to beg for access So an agent doesn't need permission, it needs a path I gave Claude Code the vault directory and one rule don't answer me, read the links It stopped treating notes as files and started treating them as a net, where backlinks became edges and tags became weights and every note it opened dragged 20 more into context Then it wrote a file I never asked for One note welding two clusters 4 years apart an old client teardown and a half-dead idea buried in a daily note from last winter, a connection I had circled for months and never closed The agent closed it on the first pass, not because it was smarter, but because it had no memory of writing either one That's the part nobody says out loud: a second brain is not a memory problem, it's a distance problem, and you are standing too close to your own notes Everyone builds a second brain, nobody gives it a nervous systemshow more

A Harvard sophomore pointed Claude Code at his Obsidian... vault and woke up to 1,847 notes he never wrote. The vault started in September 2024 with 210 notes lecture scraps, 4 problem sets, 3 half-finished essays and by March it was dead, because nobody links notes by hand at 2 AM. So he handed the folder to an agent: read access to 210 files and one instruction, find what connects. It ran for 6 hours and built edges he'd never seen, wiring a thermodynamics lecture to a supply-chain note to a Douyin livestream case study he saved in 2023 and forgot. Graph view at 4 AM showed 1,847 nodes and 11,400 links, a white sphere so dense the center goes solid. His midterm was 9 days out, so he skipped the textbook and asked the vault instead, and it answered in his own words from 3 semesters back. Now the agent runs nightly, pulling 40 new notes a week writing summaries, tagging, linking, killing duplicates while he hasn't typed a note in 5 weeks. He opens the graph most mornings and scrolls for something he doesn't recognize, and there's always something. Tuition runs $59,320 a year; the vault cost one afternoon of setup. He built a second brain, then stopped using the first one.show more

BUILD KARPATHY'S SECOND BRAIN WITH CLAUDE OPUS 5 +... OBSIDIAN Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI co-founder) shared an architecture that turns Claude into a persistent second brain not just a basic chat window how it works: > point Claude Code at an Obsidian vault folder > drop articles, PDFs, or video transcripts into raw > Claude reads them, updates summaries, cross-references everything > the knowledge base compounds like interest, never resets on a new chat the setup: > install create a local vault folder > open it in Claude Code, paste Karpathy's wiki prompt > > let the agent build raw, wiki, and CLAUDE.md folders > drop any file into raw, tell it to ingest > ask questions, get compiled summaries back this skips rag overhead entirely. your vault stays organized on its own run ingest on a schedule and it's loop engineering: sense a new file, plan, write, verify, repeat how do you manage your local knowledge base?show more

Anthropic didn't build his memory system. He built it... himself, and what you're looking at is the proof. Same source, no gatekeeping. The Obsidian CEO published it, anyone can install it. That's not a screensaver on his second monitor. It's his vault. Every point of light is a note. Every cluster is a project his AI already understands without being told again. He doesn't even touch the keyboard to move through it. One hand up, and the whole cluster tilts and spins, like he's turning a globe that happens to be his own head. A year ago he opened a new AI tab every morning and explained himself from scratch. Who he is, what he's building, what he wants. 200+ hours a year, just re-introducing himself to a machine. Then he stopped writing prompts and started writing one file instead. It loaded before every session. His goals, his projects, his blind spots. Claude read it first, every time, without asking. Now the cluster on that screen keeps growing on its own. New notes link themselves. Nothing gets explained twice. He's not showing off code. He's showing off the machine that finally stopped forgetting him.show more

Obsidian became a neural network with 184,320 links and... now runs as the most powerful second brain ever built for $0. 12,480 notes in 1 vault, 0 folders, 0 tabs, and he hasn't opened Notion in 7 months. Every night at 2 AM Claude Code walks the vault, reads all 12,480 notes, embeds them, and hunts for the pairs that should be linked but never were. Last night it found 61 and he accepted all 61. That's the move nobody makes by hand, because 12,480 notes means 77 million possible pairs, and a human links maybe 4 a day while the agent links 61 while he sleeps. Capture takes 2 seconds, a voice memo lands as a note in 1.4, a clip becomes a linked node on its own friction is what kills a second brain so he deleted the friction. Recall latency sits at 38 milliseconds, which means the graph answers before he finishes doubting himself. 36 clusters formed without him, decay score holds at 0.03, and 97% of everything he ever wrote is still reachable, while most people's notes rot past 90% in a year and turn into a graveyard with good search. Yesterday it surfaced 9 forgotten notes, one of them 412 days old, and that one became a product he shipped 48 hours later. Plain .md files on a laptop, no cloud, no subscription, no company that can delete his brain on a Tuesday. The graph doesn't store what he knows. It stores what he'd never have connected alone.show more

A CHINESE TRADER BUILT A SECOND BRAIN IN OBSIDIAN... THAT GENERATES 3 TRADING IDEAS EVERY MORNING AT 6AM AND MADE $180,000 IN 6 MONTHS. No Bloomberg terminal. No analytics desk. No team of analysts. A Mac Mini by the wall. An iPhone in his pocket. One local Obsidian vault. Six N8N pipelines running 24/7, pulling every article he reads, every podcast he listens to, and every voice note he drops into a Telegram bot—directly into the vault. Every night, a neural network reads across 4,000 connected notes and finds the strongest connections between fresh information and old theses. Every morning at 6AM, a brief lands in his inbox: - 3 trading ideas with confidence scores - The emerging thesis of the week - Any note that contradicts an active position The system only wakes him up when a fresh note contradicts his thesis, or when an idea breaks 90% confidence. Everything else runs without him. The monthly bill: $120 in API costs. The monthly return: approximately $30,000 into the account. Traditional quant funds pay teams of 8 people to produce the same flow of insights. He pays $120 and a Mac Mini. The full system breakdown is in the article below. Bookmark this before you pay for a Bloomberg subscription.show more

BUILD KARPATHY'S SECOND BRAIN WITH CLAUDE FABLE 5 +... OBSIDIAN Andrej Karpathy (openai co-founder) shared an architecture that turns Claude into a persistent second brain instead of a basic chat window how it works: > you point Claude Code at an Obsidian vault folder > you drop articles, PDFs, or video transcripts into raw folders > Claude reads the files, updates topic summaries, and cross-references everything > the knowledge base compounds like interest instead of resetting on every new chat the setup is simple: > install and create a local vault directory > open the directory in Claude Code and paste Karpathy's wiki prompt: > > let the agent generate raw, wiki, and CLAUDE.md schema directories > drop any text file into raw and tell the model to ingest it > ask questions across the whole vault and query compiled summaries this eliminates rag database overhead and keeps your local vault organized how do you manage your local knowledge base?show more

A guy in Vancouver built an entire operating system... inside a Chrome tab. By himself. Over six years. His personal website is the OS. You open and a Windows-style desktop loads. File explorer. Start menu. Taskbar. You can drag in a zip and extract it. You can play DOOM. You can play Quake III Arena. You can boot Linux from an ISO. You can run Stable Diffusion locally for image generation. You can open a Python terminal. You can edit code in Monaco, the same engine that powers VS Code. All of it runs in your browser tab. Nothing installs. His name is Dustin Brett. Self-taught engineer. Father. Husband. 4,473 commits. All his. He had to swap the Windows icon for the π symbol because of legal pressure. The repo has 12,883 stars. MIT license. His hosting bill is one dollar a month. A single Cloudflare CDN does the rest. This is what the open web was built for. (Link in the comments)show more

HE BUILT A 100% PRIVATE SECOND BRAIN IN OBSIDIAN... TO AUTOMATE HIS RESEARCH USING HERMES AGENT AND NOTEBOOKLM He visualizes his entire knowledge graph on-premise without paying for cloud subscriptions By connecting Hermes Agent and NotebookLM, developers can index hundreds of documents and generate content locally Four components of this local knowledge architecture: 1. Memory layer - set up an Obsidian PARA vault to store markdown notes and profiles 2. Agent layer - connect Hermes Agent to write files and run background scripts 3. Synthesis layer - use NotebookLM to create structured overviews from raw transcripts 4. Automation layer - trigger cron tasks to synchronize files and calendar standups The setup saves over $4,000 annually while keeping all private files offline Get the full step-by-step configuration guide and setup commands in the article below ↓show more