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

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

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

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

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

SOMEONE VISUALIZED THEIR SECOND BRAIN AS A COLOR CODED... CLUSTER YOU CAN ROTATE every note sized by weight, activity bleeding through in reds and oranges, months of thinking compressed into one shape you can spin around this article runs a different kind of second brain through the same idea, four agents instead of one static map, each one updating its own cluster every six hours as new notes, chats, and code sessions come in the map isn’t just a snapshot here, it keeps redrawing itself while you sleep full breakdown in the article below👇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

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

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

“i wish that i could walk away from pain”... only for the ‘merry go round’ teaser to show namjoon walking through darkness toward the others in the light as if the pain never really ends and it just becomes bearable when it leads you back to the people you love and who know every broken part of youshow more

This sign has one job: expose who grew up... in the South... in about 5 seconds. To everyone else, it looks like someone dropped the alphabet down the stairs. But if your brain instantly translated every line without even thinking... congratulations. You probably had a granddaddy, grandma, or favorite uncle who thought this was the funniest thing on Earth and made every new visitor read it out loud. The funniest part? Once it clicks, you can never unsee it. From that moment on, your brain automatically reads gibberish with a Southern accent. Some childhood memories don't need photos... they just need a weird sign, a front porch, and somebody laughing before you even finish the first line.show more

Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you... produce a configuration that has almost certainly never existed before, and never will again. But how do you know when you’ve shuffled enough times to mix up the deck?show more

IMAGINE YOUR NOTES APP LOOKING LIKE MISSION CONTROL this... is what a second brain becomes when you stop treating it like a folder and start treating it like a system it's called omega. every note is a star. every connection is a line. and it tracks stats most people have never seen on their own knowledge: maturity: 58%. velocity: +196%. active clusters. hotspots. top hubs. it's telling you which ideas are growing, which ones are going stale, and where your thinking is actually concentrated your regular notes app has none of this. you dump things in and hope you find them later this treats your knowledge like a living thing you can measure and grow here's the part that matters: when you can see your second brain, you actually use it the graph pulls you back. the growing clusters make you want to feed them. the stats make it a game you want to keep playing most people's notes are a graveyard nobody visits this is the version that's aliveshow more

1 Neural Network + Obsidian + Karpathy’s 1-file method... = the most unhinged second brain build of 2026. It remembers everything you’ve ever done, and it costs $0 on top of what you already pay. The base is Karpathy’s append and review: 1 giant note, new thoughts stack on top, old ones sink, every few days you reread and pull the survivors back up. No folders, no tags, no plugins the rereading IS the system, because review is what turns storage into thinking. The flaw: past 10,000 lines, no human rereads anything. That’s where the neural network takes over. You keep the note in Obsidian 1 vault, everything dumps to the top: ideas, links, meeting fragments, half-thoughts. You never organize, you only dump. It all lives as plain markdown on your own disk, and that detail is the whole trick. Because now you point Claude Code at the vault folder, and it reads every line you’ve ever written. “What did I think about pricing in March.” “Find the 3 ideas I keep circling.” “What did I drop that deserves a second look.” It answers from YOUR notes, with quotes, in 15 seconds. Then once a week, 1 prompt closes the loop: read the last 7 days, surface the 5 entries worth pulling back up, flag anything that contradicts what I wrote a month ago. The model does the sinking and surfacing Karpathy did by hand, and the note stays alive instead of turning into a graveyard. Week 1 feels like nothing. Week 4 you hit the first “I already solved this in January.” Month 3 you consult your past self more than Google. Most second brains die in 11 days under 40 plugins and 200 folders. This one is 1 file and a loop, and it compounds because dumping takes 0 discipline. Notion stores what you thought. This thing argues back.show 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 is f**king dangerous Most people treat Claude like... a search bar. The ones with a second brain treat it as an intelligence layer on everything they know. Here's the 15-minute setup: → Install Claude Code → Install Obsidian, create a vault → Open it in Claude Code, drop in the CLAUDE.md schema — that one file is the engine → Throw any source in, say "ingest this" Done. From then on, everything you know is queryable by the most capable AI on earth. Claude wires each source against your whole vault and surfaces connections you forgot you had. Build it tonight. full A–Z guide below.show more

I still don't understand why everyone is not using... this yet. Thanks to it, a year ago I increased my income to 17,000 dollars a month Andrey Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, published a simple idea that got 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain You point Claude Code to a folder, drop any source in there (an article, transcript, PDF) and Claude reads it, links it, and saves it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest: the more you feed it, the smarter it gets Here is the gist: Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code Paste the file with Karpathy's wiki idea and tell Claude to build it Claude creates three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, CLAUDE which runs everything Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this" Ask questions across everything, forever Five minutes to set up, and you never start with an empty chat again The full step-by-step guide is in the article. Save to bookmarksshow more

Your brain lies to you - Constantly and you... call it reality. Between what happens and what you see, there is always the brain. It doesn’t observe. It predicts. Every second, it reconstructs the world from past experience, beliefs, and expectations - and you mistake that reconstruction for “objective reality.” Optical illusions simply make this mechanism visible. In real life, it works quietly - in money, relationships, decisions, fears, and repeating patterns. You’re not stuck in circumstances. You’re stuck in a perceptual model you don’t even notice. Here’s the part most people avoid: if perception is constructed, it can be rewritten. That’s what my books are about. Not positive thinking. Not affirmations. But understanding how thought becomes a filter of reality - and how to exit automatic mode. When thinking changes, reality doesn’t “magically” improve - it starts to look different, and you make different decisions. That’s where everything begins.show more