Obsidian notes = raw material. This system = finished... output. Five workflows that process every capture into something usable. Decision support. Writing fuel. Conversation material. Action triggers. Every note connected. Every idea surfaced at the right moment. Nothing captured and forgotten. The vault that produces instead of collects. Read this and Bookmark it now.show more

Obsidian plus Vellum = a second brain that never... stops thinking. Works while you sleep. Obsidian holds everything you know. Vellum reasons across it continuously. Every idea connected. Every pattern surfaced. Every insight waiting when you wake up. The people who build this tonight will never go back to thinking alone. Read this and Bookmark it now.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

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. Follow CyrilXBT for every solo operator setup that changes what one person can build.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. Follow CyrilXBT for every solo operator setup that changes what one person can build.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

THIS MAN HASN’T HAD A SINGLE ORIGINAL IDEA IN... 8 WEEKS. CLAUDE HAS ALL OF THEM BEFORE HE WAKES UP he gave claude his obsidian vault on a saturday by monday it found a link between two notes written 6 weeks apart in different folders he turned that connection into his best-performing post his competitors are still organizing folders and writing morning pages and brainstorming in notion the only difference is one file called CLAUDE.md every note = fuel and every morning = synthesis and every week = ideas compounding faster than he can publish them this is not a tool anymore and this is not even an assistant this is a second brain that studied you for 2 months straight bookmark & like this or lose it forevershow more

THIS MAN HASN’T OPENED HIS TASK MANAGER IN A... WEEK AND HIS ENTIRE LIFE IS STILL ON TRACK he dumped everything into one folder before bed and closed his laptop woke up to a system that had already sorted every note and flagged every stalled project and assigned every task his coworkers are still living in their inboxes the only difference is one folder called CAPTURE and claude running at 8pm every night every idea goes in and claude files it and nothing requires a decision and nothing gets lostshow more

Realising you have been measuring your note-taking system by... how many notes you have when the only metric that actually matters is how many times a note contributed to a decision, a piece of writing, or an action. Most notes in Obsidian never get used. Not because the information was not valuable. Because every note-taking system optimises for capturing and ignores using entirely. Someone built a five-workflow Obsidian system designed from the opposite end. The contribution rate compounds from the first processed note. Here is the full build nobody is talking about.show more

140K GITHUB STARS. THREE MONTHS. While most people are... still copy-pasting into ChatGPT every single morning, this stack stopped needing that entirely. Hermes plus Obsidian plus NotebookLM. It writes its own skills the moment it catches a repeated pattern. It maps your knowledge into a real graph. It remembers what you taught it last week without you saying a word. One local setup. Zero re-briefing, ever. Bookmark this now.show more

THIS IS WHAT YOUR SECOND BRAIN SHOULD LOOK LIKE... most people dump notes into obsidian and call it a second brain it’s not a second brain it’s a second drawer karpathy just dropped the pattern that changes this and it’s called the llm wiki every time you add a source ai reads it, extracts key claims, updates every connected note and flags contradictions your obsidian stops being an archive and starts being alive save this and show it to someone still using notion as a second brain full breakdown in the article ↓show more

Something cannot come out of nothing; that is the... ultimate “magical system” modern science wants you to believe. Even for the Big Bang to happen, something must have existed before it. Therefore, everything is energy, and the material Universe is only an illusion created from electromagnetic waves — just like you create an entire universe when you sleep and dream through your electromagnetic thoughts. God is the infinite, ultimate energy, vibration, and frequency that causes everything to exist, and we are made in His image because we exist on every divine level of the Tree of Life. In the Kabbalistic system, it is divided into 10 or 13 Sefirot; in the Kundalini system, it is divided into the 7 Chakras; and in the Ancient Egyptian tradition, it is divided into the eight parts of the soul. The material Universe is the lowest realm, where energy is the most dense, and the highest material form is the plasma body.show more

🔥 THE FUEL OF REVOLUTION. ‼️ The Truth: Hunger,... poverty, and the suppression of freedom—this is the fuel that eventually burns down every dictator. The Reality: The Iranian people are proving this right now, right before our eyes. They are turning years of suffering into the fire that is consuming the regime. History repeats itself: No tyranny lasts forever when the people have nothing left to lose. #Iran #IranRevolution2026 #Freedom #Dictatorship #Truthshow more

140K GitHub stars. Three months. Most people still copy-pasting... into ChatGPT every morning. Hermes plus Obsidian plus NotebookLM equals a second brain that compounds forever. Writes its own skills. Maps its own knowledge. Remembers everything you taught it. One setup. Runs locally. Never starts from zero again. Save this before you explain yourself to an AI one more time. Bookmark this now.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

This Chinese guy built a Second Brain in Obsidian... and every morning gets 3 trading ideas that brought him $180,000 in 6 months. Inside he runs a pipeline of 6 workflows on N8N that automatically pulls every read article, listened podcast, and voice note into a shared Obsidian vault, and a neural network analyst every morning at 6:00 finds connections between the fresh and the old and puts the 3 strongest trading ideas for the day into the inbox. No analytics desk, no Bloomberg terminal, no Telegram chats with traders. Just a Mac Mini by the wall, an iPhone in the pocket, and 1 local Obsidian vault. And traditional quant funds keep entire teams of 8 people on salary for the same flow of insights, while his expenses are only subscriptions to Readwise, Whisper API, and N8N hosting. 6 pipelines process about 200 sources a day and close the monthly API bill at about $120. The Mac Mini itself stores the entire vault and keeps the neural network analyst running 24/7, and from the iPhone the owner drops any idea he hears on the go into a Telegram bot, and it lands in the vault inbox in just 30 seconds. The starting instruction that sits in the VAULT.md file at the root of his vault looks like this: "you are the AI analyst of a solo trader. you read his vault every morning at 6:00, find connections between fresh and old notes, and deliver 3 trading ideas he can verify in the hour before the market opens. pipelines: // Reader (pulls every article and highlight from Readwise, Twitter bookmarks, and Kindle into /notes) // Listener (transcribes podcasts through Airr and voice notes through Whisper, puts them in /notes) // Catcher (accepts any message from the Telegram bot and writes it to /inbox with a timestamp) // Connector (every night reads across the entire vault and updates the connection graph between 4,000 notes) // Briefer (at 6:00 AM writes a brief: 3 trading ideas for today plus the emerging thesis of the week, puts it in /inbox) // Mobile (lives in the iPhone, answers any question about the vault by voice, and confirms alerts while the owner is on the go). you wake the owner with a push notification only when a fresh note contradicts his active thesis or when 1 of the 3 morning ideas has a confidence score above 90%." This instruction immediately sets the role for the system and the limits of its autonomy. It knows it is supposed to connect new with old on its own. It knows it is supposed to prepare 3 trading ideas every morning on its own. It knows it connects the live trader only when a thesis is contradicted or an ultra-confident idea appears. → Reader pulls about 80 articles and highlights a day from Readwise, Twitter, and Kindle → Listener transcribes 4 to 6 podcasts a week through Airr and Whisper → Catcher intercepts all voice and text ideas through the Telegram bot, averaging 15 to 20 a day → Connector updates the connection graph between 4,000 notes every night, adding 25 to 30 new edges → Briefer puts a fresh brief with 3 trading ideas and the emerging thesis into the inbox at exactly 6:00 → Mobile answers any question about the vault by voice and confirms alerts right from the iPhone And only when a new note contradicts his active thesis or 1 of the ideas breaks 90% confidence does the orchestrator raise the owner with a push notification. And when the trader at that moment is driving to the gym or eating breakfast, the Mobile agent in his iPhone answers any quick question about the vault by voice: what he wrote about this ticker last week, which 3 sources support the idea of long NVDA, and what counter-thesis already sits in his notes. The trader makes the decision and sends the order before New York opens. The fresh brief from last Monday looks like this: "reader: 78 materials added over the weekend, 11 of them about semiconductors, 4 about energy, 3 about biotech. passing to connector." "connector: 27 new connections found between fresh materials and the vault, the strongest one is that the Goldman report from Wednesday matches the NVDA thesis you wrote 3 weeks ago." "briefer: 3 trading ideas for today: long NVDA (confidence 0.84), short Tesla at the close of the quarterly report (0.71), watch URI (0.62). emerging thesis of the week: the market is underpricing capex on data centers." "alert: your fresh note about long-term risk in semis contradicts the NVDA thesis. sending for review." In his work setup there is no cloud server, no team of analysts, and not even a Bloomberg subscription. At home sits a Mac Mini with a local Obsidian vault, on top run 6 N8N pipelines and a neural network analyst, and the same vault mirrors to a secure terminal on the iPhone. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest solo trading setup on a second brain: $120 a month on the API, about $30,000 a month into the account, and between them 6 pipelines, 4,000 connected notes, and 1 iPhone in the pocket.show more

It is wild to me that this design got... from someone’s cute idea (“Let’s put the Union Jack on the tail lights!”) through every step of production and regulation and onto the road, resulting in a right turn signal that points left and a left turn signal that points rightshow 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

SOMEONE JUST BUILT A PERSONAL AI DASHBOARD WITH CLAUDE... AND IT DOES NOT FEEL LIKE A TOOL. It feels like an operating system for their entire life. One screen. Their calendar. Their tasks. Their goals. Their content pipeline. Their finances. Their health metrics. All connected. All updated in real time. All queryable in plain English. Not ten apps talking past each other. One intelligent surface that knows everything and surfaces what matters. They described what they wanted to Claude Design. Claude built the entire interface. Then they connected it to Opus 4.7 as the reasoning layer. Now instead of opening five apps to answer one question they just ask the dashboard. This is what personal computing looks like when the interface finally understands you. The people building their own AI OS right now will look back at this moment the way the first iPhone users looked back at 2007. You are early.show more

A 16-YEAR-OLD DEVELOPER BUILT AN AI EMPLOYEE THAT WORKS... 24 HOURS A DAY FOR LESS THAN $20 He stopped treating AI like a chatbot and turned it into a complete production system powered by Claude, Cursor and automated workflows Every morning the pipeline generated new ideas, wrote scripts, organized research and prepared content before he even opened his laptop What used to take an entire afternoon now takes less than 30 minutes, cutting production costs while multiplying output every single week The biggest lesson wasn't that AI works faster It was that the people building repeatable systems are moving ahead of creators still doing everything manually The biggest advantage in 2026 won't be talent It will be automation Bookmark thisshow more

The long wait is finally over 🥹📸✨ Finally, naibigay... na rin namin kay Carmelle ang Kendall camera, a meaningful gift so she can capture every view, every moment, and every memory wherever she goes. From little candid moments to big milestones, we hope this camera will always remind her of the love and support surrounding her. Hindi man naging madali ang process, and we faced a lot of challenges along the way, but this moment made everything worth it. Seeing this finally happen is something truly special for all of us. Maraming maraming salamat sa Carmellights International for making this possible, and to all our sponsors and supporters who trusted and helped us from the very start. Kahit maliit o malaki, every effort and support meant so much to us. This gift is not just a camera, it’s filled with love, dedication, and the genuine support of everyone who believes in Carmelle. Here’s to more captured memories, more smiles, and more beautiful moments ahead. 📸 We love you Carmelle Collado #CarmelleColladoshow more