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AN ANTHROPIC ENGINEER LEAKED THIS OBSIDIAN CONVENTION you start with 12 notes and one convention. 6 months later you have 2379 and every one is linked to every one it belongs next to. you never touched the graph. claude did the convention is a domain prefix at the top... of every markdown file. six characters. claude reads it, knows where the note belongs, and connects it to the older ones without you ever asking you drop in a new pdf at midnight. claude reads it, writes 8 linked notes, contradicts your old note from march, dates both versions, and pins the one you actually need on top by morning your vault stops being a folder. it becomes a night sky article in the first reply i test things like this on myself and share the results. follow kai if you want to see what's nextshow more

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i genuinely can't understand why this isn't the first thing every claude user builds... anthropic quietly shipped a folder system where claude loads specialized instructions on its own based on what you ask. no prompt engineering after setup. almost nobody uses it here's how it actually works... you drop a folder into your skills directory. inside: a SKILL.md that says "trigger this when the user asks about X". claude reads the description once at startup. next time you ask about X, it silently pulls in the whole skill - custom instructions, scripts, examples - like a specialist walking into the room 1. skill for your writing voice - loads only when you draft, never when you analyze 2. skill for your codebase conventions - loads only when you edit that repo, not others 3. skill for your accounting flow - loads only when you say invoice, receipt, or expense your context window stays empty until you need it. one claude behaves like 30 different specialists in one chat and you never manage the switching full breakdown in the article below i test things like this on myself and share the results. follow kai if you want to see what's next

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A 26-YEAR-OLD AI ENGINEER WHOSE BIRMINGHAM THESIS OUTPERFORMED GOOGLE SCHOLAR BY 50% JUST SHIPPED GRAPHIFY: ONE COMMAND TURNS ANY FOLDER INTO A CLAUDE CODE SECOND BRAIN Safi Shamsi built Graphify 48 hours after Karpathy posted his LLM wiki idea. It turns any folder, codebase, docs, PDFs, into a knowledge graph Claude reads instead of grepping. Up to 43x fewer tokens per query. The trick almost nobody is using yet: one flag exports the entire graph as a fully-linked Obsidian vault. Repo: /safishamsi/graphify Setup, end to end: 1. Install: uv tool install graphifyy (or pipx install graphifyy). Verify with graphify --version. 2. Install the skill in Claude Code: graphify claude install. This wires Graphify into Claude Code so you can call it as a skill. 3. Open the folder you want mapped in Claude Code. In the terminal: graphify . It extracts every concept and builds the graph in graphify-out/. 4. Export to Obsidian: graphify . --obsidian. Writes one note per concept, every relationship as a wikilink, every node linked back to its source. 5. Open the new vault in Obsidian (Manage vaults → Open folder as a vault), or drag it as a subfolder into your existing one. That's it. Your Claude Code instance now has a navigable map of the codebase that loads instantly instead of re-reading files every session. Full step-by-step build of the Claude + Obsidian second brain in the article below. Bookmark this

A 26-YEAR-OLD AI ENGINEER WHOSE BIRMINGHAM THESIS OUTPERFORMED GOOGLE SCHOLAR BY 50% JUST SHIPPED GRAPHIFY: ONE COMMAND TURNS ANY FOLDER INTO A CLAUDE CODE SECOND BRAIN Safi Shamsi built Graphify 48 hours after Karpathy posted his LLM wiki idea. It turns any folder, codebase, docs, PDFs, into a knowledge graph Claude reads instead of grepping. Up to 43x fewer tokens per query. The trick almost nobody is using yet: one flag exports the entire graph as a fully-linked Obsidian vault. Repo: /safishamsi/graphify Setup, end to end: 1. Install: uv tool install graphifyy (or pipx install graphifyy). Verify with graphify --version. 2. Install the skill in Claude Code: graphify claude install. This wires Graphify into Claude Code so you can call it as a skill. 3. Open the folder you want mapped in Claude Code. In the terminal: graphify . It extracts every concept and builds the graph in graphify-out/. 4. Export to Obsidian: graphify . --obsidian. Writes one note per concept, every relationship as a wikilink, every node linked back to its source. 5. Open the new vault in Obsidian (Manage vaults → Open folder as a vault), or drag it as a subfolder into your existing one. That's it. Your Claude Code instance now has a navigable map of the codebase that loads instantly instead of re-reading files every session. Full step-by-step build of the Claude + Obsidian second brain in the article below. Bookmark this

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Claude Code + Obsidian + 1 free GitHub skill = unlimited memory. Almost nobody is running this yet. Here’s the problem nobody tells you. Claude forgets you. Every new chat starts at 0. You re explain your business, your projects, your style every single time. That tax is why most people never compound anything with AI. The fix is 1 skill. It’s called Obsidian Mind. It turns your Obsidian vault into Claude’s long term brain. 2,000 notes, 14 projects, every idea you’ve ever dumped Claude reads it live and writes back to it live. It stops being a chatbot. It becomes a second brain that builds. What it does: → Bridges Claude Code straight into your vault. → Pulls any note in real time no copy paste, no context limit. → Updates your vault as you work Claude writes its own memory. → Links everything into 1 graph Claude can navigate. Day 1: Claude knows your last 6 months. Week 2: it drafts off your own past notes. Week 4: it’s running plays you forgot you wrote down. The people making real money with AI right now aren’t smarter. They just stopped starting from 0 every morning. Setup takes 11 minutes. The skill is free. You’ll have a brain that never forgets.

Claude Code + Obsidian + 1 free GitHub skill = unlimited memory. Almost nobody is running this yet. Here’s the problem nobody tells you. Claude forgets you. Every new chat starts at 0. You re explain your business, your projects, your style every single time. That tax is why most people never compound anything with AI. The fix is 1 skill. It’s called Obsidian Mind. It turns your Obsidian vault into Claude’s long term brain. 2,000 notes, 14 projects, every idea you’ve ever dumped Claude reads it live and writes back to it live. It stops being a chatbot. It becomes a second brain that builds. What it does: → Bridges Claude Code straight into your vault. → Pulls any note in real time no copy paste, no context limit. → Updates your vault as you work Claude writes its own memory. → Links everything into 1 graph Claude can navigate. Day 1: Claude knows your last 6 months. Week 2: it drafts off your own past notes. Week 4: it’s running plays you forgot you wrote down. The people making real money with AI right now aren’t smarter. They just stopped starting from 0 every morning. Setup takes 11 minutes. The skill is free. You’ll have a brain that never forgets.

West Lord

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THIS GUY CONNECTED HIS AI AGENTS TO HIS OBSIDIAN AND BUILT A BRAIN THAT LEARNS ON ITS OWN. HERE'S HOW TO BUILD IT Obsidian is just markdown files sitting in a folder. That turns out to be the perfect memory for an AI agent, because an agent can read and write those files directly. He wired his agents into the vault so they pull context from it, do the work, and write what they learned back. The notes aren't the point. The loop is, and it gets sharper every cycle How to build it: 1. Point an agent at your vault. The fastest way, no plugins, no API keys: open a terminal and run npx obsidian-mcp /path/to/your/vault. That exposes your Obsidian folder to Claude as a tool it can read, search, and write to. Add it to your Claude Code or Cowork config and restart 2. Confirm it can see the brain. Ask it: "list the notes in my vault and summarize what's in them." If it reads them back, the connection is live. Now it starts every task with everything the vault already holds instead of from zero 3. Give each agent one job and a write-back rule. Tell it: "research this, then save what you found as a new note in /brain with links to related notes." One agent researches, one summarizes, one plans. Each writes its output back into the vault 4. Close the loop. Add one line to every agent's instructions: "read /brain before starting, write your result back when done." Now each task leaves the vault richer, and the next run reads that before it works. It compounds instead of resetting 5. You only steer. Review what the brain produces, point it at the next thing. The agents handle the reading, writing, and connecting The edge isn't better notes. It's a brain that feeds itself, so the work gets sharper every cycle instead of starting over Bookmark this

THIS GUY CONNECTED HIS AI AGENTS TO HIS OBSIDIAN AND BUILT A BRAIN THAT LEARNS ON ITS OWN. HERE'S HOW TO BUILD IT Obsidian is just markdown files sitting in a folder. That turns out to be the perfect memory for an AI agent, because an agent can read and write those files directly. He wired his agents into the vault so they pull context from it, do the work, and write what they learned back. The notes aren't the point. The loop is, and it gets sharper every cycle How to build it: 1. Point an agent at your vault. The fastest way, no plugins, no API keys: open a terminal and run npx obsidian-mcp /path/to/your/vault. That exposes your Obsidian folder to Claude as a tool it can read, search, and write to. Add it to your Claude Code or Cowork config and restart 2. Confirm it can see the brain. Ask it: "list the notes in my vault and summarize what's in them." If it reads them back, the connection is live. Now it starts every task with everything the vault already holds instead of from zero 3. Give each agent one job and a write-back rule. Tell it: "research this, then save what you found as a new note in /brain with links to related notes." One agent researches, one summarizes, one plans. Each writes its output back into the vault 4. Close the loop. Add one line to every agent's instructions: "read /brain before starting, write your result back when done." Now each task leaves the vault richer, and the next run reads that before it works. It compounds instead of resetting 5. You only steer. Review what the brain produces, point it at the next thing. The agents handle the reading, writing, and connecting The edge isn't better notes. It's a brain that feeds itself, so the work gets sharper every cycle instead of starting over Bookmark this

Yarchi

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Obsidian just became the most dangerous folder on your computer, and Andrej Karpathy predicted it with 1 markdown file. His method is called append-and-review. He described it years ago and almost nobody listened: 1 single note, every thought appended to the top, reviewed on random scrolls. No tags, no folders, no Notion dashboards with 40 linked databases. The problem was always the same the note remembers, but it can't act. That changed the moment people pointed Claude Code at an Obsidian vault. Here's the setup that's quietly spreading: Part 1 — The vault becomes a database. Obsidian stores everything as plain markdown on your disk, which means Claude Code can read it like a codebase. You open a terminal inside the vault folder and your 2,000 notes turn into queryable memory. Part 2 — The CLAUDEmd file becomes the brain stem. One file at the root tells the agent who you are, what you're building, and how your notes are structured. From that point every session starts with full context instead of a blank chat window. Part 3 — Karpathy append log becomes fuel. You dump raw thoughts all day ideas, links, half-sentences. Then 1 command at night: review today's appends, extract action items, draft the 3 posts hiding in there, link them to existing notes. The messy log goes in, structured output comes out, and the vault rewrites itself while you sleep. Part 4 — Agents start living in your notes. People are running weekly reviews, content calendars, even market research as scheduled Claude Code runs over their vault. Your second brain stops being a graveyard of highlights and starts shipping. The honest math: setup takes about 90 minutes, the first week feels like overkill, and by day 30 you're sitting on a system where every note you've written in 5 years is working for you instead of rotting in a folder. Notion needed a server, a subscription and your data on someone else's machine. Obsidian needed a text file and now the text file has an employee.

Obsidian just became the most dangerous folder on your computer, and Andrej Karpathy predicted it with 1 markdown file. His method is called append-and-review. He described it years ago and almost nobody listened: 1 single note, every thought appended to the top, reviewed on random scrolls. No tags, no folders, no Notion dashboards with 40 linked databases. The problem was always the same the note remembers, but it can't act. That changed the moment people pointed Claude Code at an Obsidian vault. Here's the setup that's quietly spreading: Part 1 — The vault becomes a database. Obsidian stores everything as plain markdown on your disk, which means Claude Code can read it like a codebase. You open a terminal inside the vault folder and your 2,000 notes turn into queryable memory. Part 2 — The CLAUDEmd file becomes the brain stem. One file at the root tells the agent who you are, what you're building, and how your notes are structured. From that point every session starts with full context instead of a blank chat window. Part 3 — Karpathy append log becomes fuel. You dump raw thoughts all day ideas, links, half-sentences. Then 1 command at night: review today's appends, extract action items, draft the 3 posts hiding in there, link them to existing notes. The messy log goes in, structured output comes out, and the vault rewrites itself while you sleep. Part 4 — Agents start living in your notes. People are running weekly reviews, content calendars, even market research as scheduled Claude Code runs over their vault. Your second brain stops being a graveyard of highlights and starts shipping. The honest math: setup takes about 90 minutes, the first week feels like overkill, and by day 30 you're sitting on a system where every note you've written in 5 years is working for you instead of rotting in a folder. Notion needed a server, a subscription and your data on someone else's machine. Obsidian needed a text file and now the text file has an employee.

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Obsidian + method Karpathy + Claude Code = a quantum second brain that talks back. Most second brains are graveyards you clip 300 articles, tag 80 notes, build a graph that looks like a galaxy, then never open it again. Karpathy fix is stupid simple: 1 file, append only, new thought on top, review by scrolling no folders, no tags, no 40-minute “PKM setup” videos. The capture layer is 1 Obsidian vault with 1 file called stream md, where every idea, quote and link lands in under 10 seconds, because anything slower and you quit by day 4. Once a week Claude Code reads the whole vault from the terminal with 1 prompt “find the 5 ideas I keep circling without noticing” and sees patterns across 6 months you can’t hold in working memory. Instead of searching keywords you ask questions like “what did I think about agent pricing in March,” and Claude greps 4,000 notes and quotes your own words back with file paths. Then the vault becomes context drafting a post, a pitch or a spec, Claude pulls in your past thinking instead of generic internet mush, and your output starts sounding like you, compressed. The first week feels pointless at 20 notes, month 1 brings the first “wait, I already solved this” moment, by month 3 Claude connects 2 notes written 70 days apart and that connection becomes your best post of the year, by month 6 you stop asking Google things you already answered. The whole setup costs $0 in software and 1 evening. Notion sells you a workspace, Obsidian gives you files, Claude gives them a voice. Everyone rents a second brain this one lives on your disk and grows. You wrote the notes, and now something finally reads them.

Obsidian + method Karpathy + Claude Code = a quantum second brain that talks back. Most second brains are graveyards you clip 300 articles, tag 80 notes, build a graph that looks like a galaxy, then never open it again. Karpathy fix is stupid simple: 1 file, append only, new thought on top, review by scrolling no folders, no tags, no 40-minute “PKM setup” videos. The capture layer is 1 Obsidian vault with 1 file called stream md, where every idea, quote and link lands in under 10 seconds, because anything slower and you quit by day 4. Once a week Claude Code reads the whole vault from the terminal with 1 prompt “find the 5 ideas I keep circling without noticing” and sees patterns across 6 months you can’t hold in working memory. Instead of searching keywords you ask questions like “what did I think about agent pricing in March,” and Claude greps 4,000 notes and quotes your own words back with file paths. Then the vault becomes context drafting a post, a pitch or a spec, Claude pulls in your past thinking instead of generic internet mush, and your output starts sounding like you, compressed. The first week feels pointless at 20 notes, month 1 brings the first “wait, I already solved this” moment, by month 3 Claude connects 2 notes written 70 days apart and that connection becomes your best post of the year, by month 6 you stop asking Google things you already answered. The whole setup costs $0 in software and 1 evening. Notion sells you a workspace, Obsidian gives you files, Claude gives them a voice. Everyone rents a second brain this one lives on your disk and grows. You wrote the notes, and now something finally reads them.

West Lord

69,192 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

A GUY MAKING $100K/MONTH WITH AI JUST SHOWED HIS ENTIRE SETUP. IT'S ONE FOLDER OF NOTES AND NOTHING ELSE no framework. no $500 course. he opens his screen and it's just obsidian - a plain notes app - wired into claude here's what he did: -> he pulled claude's memory files out of their default folder and dumped them into one vault -> had claude rename and merge them: 107 messy files collapsed into 17 clean ones -> every folder gets one master note that links to all the others that last part is the whole trick the agent reads the master note, follows the links and by the time it's done it has read every file in the folder. one instruction, full context here's the part most people miss: everyone's trying to make the AI smarter. he made the AI's memory smaller fewer files, better organized, all linked. the agent isn't scanning hundreds of notes anymore - it walks a path you built that's why his agent actually finishes jobs instead of forgetting what it was doing halfway through then he goes one step further: at the end of every session, the agent writes its own daily note. what it did, when, indexed at the top so it can find it again in seconds so he never re-explains anything. the agent looks up what it already did now he types "create a campaign for this offer" and walks away. it reads the product notes, reads the process notes, and comes back with the campaign done you don't need any of the complicated agent tools people are selling you. you need structure and instructions save this. the people winning with AI aren't using better models. they're just the only ones who bothered to organize what it remembers

A GUY MAKING $100K/MONTH WITH AI JUST SHOWED HIS ENTIRE SETUP. IT'S ONE FOLDER OF NOTES AND NOTHING ELSE no framework. no $500 course. he opens his screen and it's just obsidian - a plain notes app - wired into claude here's what he did: -> he pulled claude's memory files out of their default folder and dumped them into one vault -> had claude rename and merge them: 107 messy files collapsed into 17 clean ones -> every folder gets one master note that links to all the others that last part is the whole trick the agent reads the master note, follows the links and by the time it's done it has read every file in the folder. one instruction, full context here's the part most people miss: everyone's trying to make the AI smarter. he made the AI's memory smaller fewer files, better organized, all linked. the agent isn't scanning hundreds of notes anymore - it walks a path you built that's why his agent actually finishes jobs instead of forgetting what it was doing halfway through then he goes one step further: at the end of every session, the agent writes its own daily note. what it did, when, indexed at the top so it can find it again in seconds so he never re-explains anything. the agent looks up what it already did now he types "create a campaign for this offer" and walks away. it reads the product notes, reads the process notes, and comes back with the campaign done you don't need any of the complicated agent tools people are selling you. you need structure and instructions save this. the people winning with AI aren't using better models. they're just the only ones who bothered to organize what it remembers

Paone

23,833 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

MOST "SECOND BRAINS" ARE JUST FOLDERS YOU FEEL GUILTY ABOUT. HERE'S HOW CLAUDE TURNS ONE INTO A BRAIN THAT ANSWERS YOU. that clip is the build: obsidian plus claude, structured like a filing cabinet. three drawers, one job each: raw: everything you dump in, docs, sheets, pdfs, transcripts, untouched new knowledge: what claude distills, links and rewrites into clean notes and the connections between them, drawn automatically the part most note apps miss: you are not the librarian. you drop the raw in. claude reads it once, files it, links it to what you already had, and updates the index. then you never dig through the raw pile again. you ask the brain, and it answers from the clean layer with sources. that graph on screen isn't decoration. every line is a connection you didn't have to make by hand. no re-reading the same pdf, no notes you wrote once and never opened, no app that guilts you for not organizing. the uncomfortable part isn't that note apps are messy. it's that a second brain was never about saving more, it was about something rereading you after you stopped. follow RetroChainer for systems that keep thinking after you close the tab, and bookmark this before your notes turn into another graveyard.

MOST "SECOND BRAINS" ARE JUST FOLDERS YOU FEEL GUILTY ABOUT. HERE'S HOW CLAUDE TURNS ONE INTO A BRAIN THAT ANSWERS YOU. that clip is the build: obsidian plus claude, structured like a filing cabinet. three drawers, one job each: raw: everything you dump in, docs, sheets, pdfs, transcripts, untouched new knowledge: what claude distills, links and rewrites into clean notes and the connections between them, drawn automatically the part most note apps miss: you are not the librarian. you drop the raw in. claude reads it once, files it, links it to what you already had, and updates the index. then you never dig through the raw pile again. you ask the brain, and it answers from the clean layer with sources. that graph on screen isn't decoration. every line is a connection you didn't have to make by hand. no re-reading the same pdf, no notes you wrote once and never opened, no app that guilts you for not organizing. the uncomfortable part isn't that note apps are messy. it's that a second brain was never about saving more, it was about something rereading you after you stopped. follow RetroChainer for systems that keep thinking after you close the tab, and bookmark this before your notes turn into another graveyard.

RetroChainer

13,775 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

PSYCHO CREATED A GOD-MODE SECOND BRAIN ON FABLE 5 THAT FILLS ITS OWN KNOWLEDGE GAPS WHILE YOU SLEEP. KARPATHY'S FILE STRUCTURE MAKES IT POSSIBLE. Everyone wires Claude into Obsidian, posts the graph, and stops. this guy added a third system and it quietly changes the whole game: The full build is in the article below: vault structure, the Claude wiring, the exact prompts, the skills. > Obsidian as the knowledge base, but any notes app works as long as Claude Code can see the files > Karpathy's LLM Wiki doc as the skeleton, so the vault is organized the way a model actually reads, not the way humans decorate folders > a self-learning skill on a weekly loop: scans the entire brain, finds the gaps, then researches YouTube and Google by itself to fill them Read the third one again, actually your notes only ever contain what you happened to write down, and the gap-finder breaks that ceiling: the brain starts knowing things you never told it. Most second brains know what you told them. a real one notices what you didn't. that's the difference between note-taking and compounding. one sits there. the other gets smarter every week whether you showed up or not. P.S. send the article straight to your Claude, tell it to interview you, and the brain starts filling itself tonight.

PSYCHO CREATED A GOD-MODE SECOND BRAIN ON FABLE 5 THAT FILLS ITS OWN KNOWLEDGE GAPS WHILE YOU SLEEP. KARPATHY'S FILE STRUCTURE MAKES IT POSSIBLE. Everyone wires Claude into Obsidian, posts the graph, and stops. this guy added a third system and it quietly changes the whole game: The full build is in the article below: vault structure, the Claude wiring, the exact prompts, the skills. > Obsidian as the knowledge base, but any notes app works as long as Claude Code can see the files > Karpathy's LLM Wiki doc as the skeleton, so the vault is organized the way a model actually reads, not the way humans decorate folders > a self-learning skill on a weekly loop: scans the entire brain, finds the gaps, then researches YouTube and Google by itself to fill them Read the third one again, actually your notes only ever contain what you happened to write down, and the gap-finder breaks that ceiling: the brain starts knowing things you never told it. Most second brains know what you told them. a real one notices what you didn't. that's the difference between note-taking and compounding. one sits there. the other gets smarter every week whether you showed up or not. P.S. send the article straight to your Claude, tell it to interview you, and the brain starts filling itself tonight.

Miraqle

41,307 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

STOP TREATING YOUR OBSIDIAN VAULT AS AI MEMORY. WITHOUT ONE ROUTING FILE, CLAUDE IS BURNING TOKENS ON NOISE YOU FORGOT YOU SAVED. a folder full of markdown does not make Claude smart. what makes it smart is what your agent can find without rereading the whole vault. storage: write → tag → graph → agent scans everything the model touches the entire vault, hallucinates half of it, forgets by the next session. memory: write → index → route → agent opens two files the model reads the index first, follows one path, answers with a link back to the note. i have rebuilt my Obsidian vault three times this year. the first two collapsed inside a month because Claude kept guessing which folder to open. the third one holds because the first thing i ship now is the routing file. Markdown, links, and the graph view are not what changed. what changed was a one-line description per folder, written for the agent, kept current, loaded before any retrieval call. if your agent still starts every session by scanning your whole vault, you are running storage. write the routing file today.

STOP TREATING YOUR OBSIDIAN VAULT AS AI MEMORY. WITHOUT ONE ROUTING FILE, CLAUDE IS BURNING TOKENS ON NOISE YOU FORGOT YOU SAVED. a folder full of markdown does not make Claude smart. what makes it smart is what your agent can find without rereading the whole vault. storage: write → tag → graph → agent scans everything the model touches the entire vault, hallucinates half of it, forgets by the next session. memory: write → index → route → agent opens two files the model reads the index first, follows one path, answers with a link back to the note. i have rebuilt my Obsidian vault three times this year. the first two collapsed inside a month because Claude kept guessing which folder to open. the third one holds because the first thing i ship now is the routing file. Markdown, links, and the graph view are not what changed. what changed was a one-line description per folder, written for the agent, kept current, loaded before any retrieval call. if your agent still starts every session by scanning your whole vault, you are running storage. write the routing file today.

kocer

17,240 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Most people use Claude Code like a chatbot, then wonder why it forgets everything by Tuesday. The ones quietly building $10K AI workflows give it a second brain instead, and it’s free. It’s called Obsidian. You download it, point it at one folder on your computer, and that folder becomes a vault. Every note inside it is now something Claude Code can read end to end. Open Claude in that folder and it’s connected, that simple. The trick isn’t the tool, it’s the map. 3 folders, that’s the whole system. Raw, you dump everything here. Notes, transcripts, screenshots, half thoughts, zero structure. Wiki, Claude reads the raw pile and writes clean Wikipedia style articles about it, structured, searchable, permanent. Output, when you want a deliverable, a PDF, a slide deck, a script, it pulls from the wiki and ships it. Most people skip the wiki layer and feed Claude a junk drawer of 400 files, then blame the model when the answers are garbage. The model isn’t the problem, your folder is. Give it a path it can follow and it finds anything in 1 second, give it chaos and it guesses. You don’t even have to design the structure yourself. Open the vault, tell Claude to build a file system that fits your work, and watch it organize your entire brain in one prompt. Free tool, 3 folders, a second brain that compounds while you sleep. The people falling behind are still copy pasting into a chat window.

Most people use Claude Code like a chatbot, then wonder why it forgets everything by Tuesday. The ones quietly building $10K AI workflows give it a second brain instead, and it’s free. It’s called Obsidian. You download it, point it at one folder on your computer, and that folder becomes a vault. Every note inside it is now something Claude Code can read end to end. Open Claude in that folder and it’s connected, that simple. The trick isn’t the tool, it’s the map. 3 folders, that’s the whole system. Raw, you dump everything here. Notes, transcripts, screenshots, half thoughts, zero structure. Wiki, Claude reads the raw pile and writes clean Wikipedia style articles about it, structured, searchable, permanent. Output, when you want a deliverable, a PDF, a slide deck, a script, it pulls from the wiki and ships it. Most people skip the wiki layer and feed Claude a junk drawer of 400 files, then blame the model when the answers are garbage. The model isn’t the problem, your folder is. Give it a path it can follow and it finds anything in 1 second, give it chaos and it guesses. You don’t even have to design the structure yourself. Open the vault, tell Claude to build a file system that fits your work, and watch it organize your entire brain in one prompt. Free tool, 3 folders, a second brain that compounds while you sleep. The people falling behind are still copy pasting into a chat window.

West Lord

32,845 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

YOU CAN BUILD AN AI SECOND BRAIN IN 15 MINUTES. No coding experience. No $1000 course. Here is the entire setup. Step 1: Download Claude Desktop. Step 2: Download Obsidian. Step 3: Create a new vault and start dropping .MD files into it. Step 4: Tell Claude Code to connect to your vault using Karpathy's prompt: That is it. Your entire knowledge base becomes searchable, connectable, and queryable by the most powerful AI model on earth. Every note you have ever written. Every idea you have ever captured. Every resource you have ever saved. Claude reads all of it, finds connections you missed, and surfaces insights from your own thinking that you FORGOT you had. Most people use Claude as a search engine. The people building second brains use it as an INTELLIGENCE LAYER on top of everything they know. That gap is the gap between asking Google a question and having a research partner who has read everything you have ever written. Bookmark this. Build it tonight. Follow CyrilXBT

YOU CAN BUILD AN AI SECOND BRAIN IN 15 MINUTES. No coding experience. No $1000 course. Here is the entire setup. Step 1: Download Claude Desktop. Step 2: Download Obsidian. Step 3: Create a new vault and start dropping .MD files into it. Step 4: Tell Claude Code to connect to your vault using Karpathy's prompt: That is it. Your entire knowledge base becomes searchable, connectable, and queryable by the most powerful AI model on earth. Every note you have ever written. Every idea you have ever captured. Every resource you have ever saved. Claude reads all of it, finds connections you missed, and surfaces insights from your own thinking that you FORGOT you had. Most people use Claude as a search engine. The people building second brains use it as an INTELLIGENCE LAYER on top of everything they know. That gap is the gap between asking Google a question and having a research partner who has read everything you have ever written. Bookmark this. Build it tonight. Follow CyrilXBT

CyrilXBT

262,172 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Obsidian + Claude Code is how Andrej Karpathy turns 15 years of notes into a brain that works while he sleeps. The method behind it costs $0 and takes 5 minutes a day and it outlived every productivity app since 2011. Every idea, link, and half-thought gets appended to the top of a single note, with no sorting, no folders, no tags. Once a week he scrolls through, and anything that still matters gets copied back to the top. Weak ideas sink. Strong ideas resurface 5, 10, 20 times and by the 20th pass your brain has already wired them into everything else you know. Repetition as a filter. That's the whole system. Now the 2026 upgrade almost nobody is running: Drop that note into an Obsidian vault and open the folder with Claude Code not the chat app, the terminal agent that reads files. 3 commands change everything: read my last 30 days of notes and find the 3 ideas I keep circling without acting on link every note mentioning this project into a CLAUDE.md of what I actually believe about it draft this week's post from the idea that resurfaced most Claude Code doesn't search your vault it walks it, follows the wikilinks, and hands you the patterns you were too close to see. Karpathy method filters the signal, Obsidian stores it, Claude Code compounds it. One is a habit, one is a folder, one is $20 a month together they're the closest thing to a second brain that thinks back. Most people collect notes for 10 years and never read them once. His notes read him.

Obsidian + Claude Code is how Andrej Karpathy turns 15 years of notes into a brain that works while he sleeps. The method behind it costs $0 and takes 5 minutes a day and it outlived every productivity app since 2011. Every idea, link, and half-thought gets appended to the top of a single note, with no sorting, no folders, no tags. Once a week he scrolls through, and anything that still matters gets copied back to the top. Weak ideas sink. Strong ideas resurface 5, 10, 20 times and by the 20th pass your brain has already wired them into everything else you know. Repetition as a filter. That's the whole system. Now the 2026 upgrade almost nobody is running: Drop that note into an Obsidian vault and open the folder with Claude Code not the chat app, the terminal agent that reads files. 3 commands change everything: read my last 30 days of notes and find the 3 ideas I keep circling without acting on link every note mentioning this project into a CLAUDE.md of what I actually believe about it draft this week's post from the idea that resurfaced most Claude Code doesn't search your vault it walks it, follows the wikilinks, and hands you the patterns you were too close to see. Karpathy method filters the signal, Obsidian stores it, Claude Code compounds it. One is a habit, one is a folder, one is $20 a month together they're the closest thing to a second brain that thinks back. Most people collect notes for 10 years and never read them once. His notes read him.

Spike 1%

12,467 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

CLAUDE JUST TURNED OBSIDIAN INTO A BRAIN THAT NEVER FORGETS (FOR $0) Someone connected Claude straight to their Obsidian vault. Now the AI reads and writes every note they own. Every client, every idea, every project. Instant recall. Runs on Claude + Obsidian. One evening. Zero code. The numbers are insane: - Notion AI: $10/month forever - A "second brain" course: $500 to $2,000 - An assistant to organize your notes: $3,000/month - This setup: $0 - Time to build: one evening - Skill required: copy the steps The opportunity is even wilder: People sell Notion "second brain" templates for $99 to $499. You just built something better for free, and it never forgets. One free vault can hold the entire memory of your business: clients, content, SOPs, ideas. One person + Claude + Obsidian + one evening = an infinite memory that never forgets. Save and watch the clip.

CLAUDE JUST TURNED OBSIDIAN INTO A BRAIN THAT NEVER FORGETS (FOR $0) Someone connected Claude straight to their Obsidian vault. Now the AI reads and writes every note they own. Every client, every idea, every project. Instant recall. Runs on Claude + Obsidian. One evening. Zero code. The numbers are insane: - Notion AI: $10/month forever - A "second brain" course: $500 to $2,000 - An assistant to organize your notes: $3,000/month - This setup: $0 - Time to build: one evening - Skill required: copy the steps The opportunity is even wilder: People sell Notion "second brain" templates for $99 to $499. You just built something better for free, and it never forgets. One free vault can hold the entire memory of your business: clients, content, SOPs, ideas. One person + Claude + Obsidian + one evening = an infinite memory that never forgets. Save and watch the clip.

shmidt

57,347 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

ANTHROPIC JUST KILLED A DOZEN AI MEMORY STARTUPS WITH ONE BUILT IN TOOL people raised millions to give AI long term memory. Anthropic just shipped it straight into the API. free, no framework, no vector database. it is a folder of files Claude reads and writes. that is it. the trick: it is client side. Claude never touches your data directly. it only requests a file operation, and your app runs it against storage you control. before every task Claude checks its /memories directory, pulls back what it learned last time, and keeps going. when it learns something new, it writes it down. six plain operations do all of it: > view, create, str_replace, insert, delete, rename why it actually wins: > just in time retrieval, it reads on demand instead of loading everything up front > it survives a context reset, so a long job resumes instead of starting over > every path is locked to /memories, so it cannot wander your filesystem > works on every Claude 4 model, no beta flag, generally available Anthropic even pairs it with context editing and compaction, so the live window stays tiny while the important stuff lives on disk. the whole thing in one line: Claude keeps the notes, you keep the storage. bookmark this before you pay for a memory layer you no longer need.

ANTHROPIC JUST KILLED A DOZEN AI MEMORY STARTUPS WITH ONE BUILT IN TOOL people raised millions to give AI long term memory. Anthropic just shipped it straight into the API. free, no framework, no vector database. it is a folder of files Claude reads and writes. that is it. the trick: it is client side. Claude never touches your data directly. it only requests a file operation, and your app runs it against storage you control. before every task Claude checks its /memories directory, pulls back what it learned last time, and keeps going. when it learns something new, it writes it down. six plain operations do all of it: > view, create, str_replace, insert, delete, rename why it actually wins: > just in time retrieval, it reads on demand instead of loading everything up front > it survives a context reset, so a long job resumes instead of starting over > every path is locked to /memories, so it cannot wander your filesystem > works on every Claude 4 model, no beta flag, generally available Anthropic even pairs it with context editing and compaction, so the live window stays tiny while the important stuff lives on disk. the whole thing in one line: Claude keeps the notes, you keep the storage. bookmark this before you pay for a memory layer you no longer need.

NO1ennn

42,946 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat