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Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI Co-founder, introduced the "LLM Wiki" - a knowledge graph inside Obsidian i built my own version for GTM and here's exactly how you can do the same: - one vault, one folder per thing your business knows: offer, buyers, voice, market map, rooms, workflows, rulings, prospects,... signals, messages, metrics - one note per fact, 50-150 words, a title you can say out loud ("a budget that can survive"), four frontmatter keys (type, tags, created, status) - every note links to its folder hub, two siblings and one note in another folder, so the graph becomes one connected web instead of eleven islands - a rulings folder where every correction you give an agent becomes one dated line, and every run reads it before drafting... a correction becomes permanent instead of repeated - Claude Code pointed at the vault reads the hubs first, greps the rulings, then drafts, and everything it learns goes back in as a note the same day - graph view colored by folder, hubs in white, so you see which cluster is thin before a workflow fails the article below teaches you how to build the full workflow step-by-step:show more

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zaimiri1 month ago

this looks so good

Buswe1 month ago

Enlazar las notas entre sí es lo que convierte el vault en un grafo consultable: recuperas solo el trozo ligado a tu duda, no todo.

Jegnia1 month ago

what in gods name is that O_O i mean you explained it thoroughly but....O-O

Pukerainbow 🤮🌈1 month ago

i like the rulings folder most, every correction becomes useful later instead of getting lost in another chat

Granite1 month ago

this looks incredibly beautiful i'm building my memory there too

Tony Tong | Founder | Ancient Systems x AI1 month ago

One note per fact, linked to its neighbors, is the same idea as the plugin by Karpathy I run against my own vault, an indexing layer so retrieval compounds instead of just accumulating. The graph view existing does not matter, whether it actually gets read before drafting does.

Pastkla1 month ago

bro built a second brain to sell a course about building a second brain LOL show the MRR chart not the vault

Ghost1 month ago

why is this so oddly satisfying

Saman Ahmed1 month ago

This is basically turning your knowledge base into a memory system for the agent.

Phosphen1 month ago

insane how many connections are in there

Johnniedom1 month ago

The 50 to 150 words per note is where the whole thing actually works. that's chunking, done by hand, before anything retrieves it. the graph part is just what a vector store can't give you and I love the experience tho I don't use it constantly.

rewind1 month ago

eleven folders into one graph makes sense

Mohand1 month ago

I've mentionned it in my first AI-assisted learning methods article

noah1 month ago

dedicated corrections folder doesn't make sense imo, it should go in the index / readme / agents.md / claude.md of the relevant folder.

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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

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Machina

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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.

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A DOCTOR BUILT AN AI-QUERYABLE DATABASE OF EVERY DISEASE HE KNOWS IN OBSIDIAN. THE SAME STACK CAN RUN AN ENTIRE COMPANY ON ONE PERSON'S BRAIN Zoomed out, his vault looks like a constellation. Every disease linked to its symptoms, every symptom to the conditions it shows up in, every treatment to what it treats. Adding a new case is one note that wires itself into the rest. It's a personal database, and the structure has nothing to do with medicine. It's just nodes and links. Once you see that, the same setup runs anything: > a startup that needs to remember every customer, decision, and meeting; > a school whose curriculum links to every lecture and student question; > a business where SOPs, clients, and vendors all sit in one queryable graph. Drop Claude on top, and the vault stops being a map. It becomes something you can ask, in plain English, across everything you've ever written down. Full Claude + Obsidian build in the article below. Bookmark this

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OBSIDIAN TURNED 4,000+ IDEAS INTO A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH THAT REBUILDS ITSELF EVERY NIGHT every lecture adds another point. every saved article adds another signal. every old note becomes part of the map again instead of sitting dead inside a folder. a $599 mac mini runs the loop 24/7, claude extracts the useful parts, verifies the note, then links it to 2-3 related ideas inside obsidian before saving it back into the vault. after 30 days the graph starts getting dense. random notes become clusters, forgotten ideas resurface, and the whole system begins to look less like storage and more like a private memory engine. this is what a second brain looks like when it stops waiting for you to open the app.

OBSIDIAN TURNED 4,000+ IDEAS INTO A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH THAT REBUILDS ITSELF EVERY NIGHT every lecture adds another point. every saved article adds another signal. every old note becomes part of the map again instead of sitting dead inside a folder. a $599 mac mini runs the loop 24/7, claude extracts the useful parts, verifies the note, then links it to 2-3 related ideas inside obsidian before saving it back into the vault. after 30 days the graph starts getting dense. random notes become clusters, forgotten ideas resurface, and the whole system begins to look less like storage and more like a private memory engine. this is what a second brain looks like when it stops waiting for you to open the app.

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Obsidian + Claude Code turned a 4,300-note vault into a second brain that answers back. Most people use Obsidian as a graveyard. You save 40 highlights a week, link nothing, and reread maybe 2% of it. The knowledge is there the retrieval is dead. Claude Code fixes the retrieval, because your vault is just a folder of markdown files and Claude Code lives in folders. The whole setup takes 20 minutes: Open a terminal inside your Obsidian folder and run Claude Code no plugins, no API glue, no export step. It reads all 4,300 files natively. Then drop a CLAUDE.md at the vault root explaining your structure: where daily notes live, how you tag, what your MOCs are. Now every session starts with context instead of chaos. From there you just talk to your vault: > "find every note where I mentioned churn and write a summary with backlinks" > "read my last 30 daily notes and list the 5 ideas I keep circling but never ship" > "build a MOC for everything tagged startup-ideas and link the orphan notes into it" It writes new notes straight into the vault with proper [[wikilinks]], and they show up in your graph view 10 seconds later. The boring layer automates too one command cleans broken links, one merges duplicates, one turns 6 months of meeting notes into a single decisions log. Work that used to eat a Sunday now runs while you make coffee. Before: 4,300 notes, 900 orphans, search by keyword and prayer. After: an agent that read everything you ever wrote and drafts in your own voice, from your own sources, with receipts. People pay $30/month for AI note apps with 10% of this. You already own the other 90%. Your notes stopped being storage. They started being staff.

Obsidian + Claude Code turned a 4,300-note vault into a second brain that answers back. Most people use Obsidian as a graveyard. You save 40 highlights a week, link nothing, and reread maybe 2% of it. The knowledge is there the retrieval is dead. Claude Code fixes the retrieval, because your vault is just a folder of markdown files and Claude Code lives in folders. The whole setup takes 20 minutes: Open a terminal inside your Obsidian folder and run Claude Code no plugins, no API glue, no export step. It reads all 4,300 files natively. Then drop a CLAUDE.md at the vault root explaining your structure: where daily notes live, how you tag, what your MOCs are. Now every session starts with context instead of chaos. From there you just talk to your vault: > "find every note where I mentioned churn and write a summary with backlinks" > "read my last 30 daily notes and list the 5 ideas I keep circling but never ship" > "build a MOC for everything tagged startup-ideas and link the orphan notes into it" It writes new notes straight into the vault with proper [[wikilinks]], and they show up in your graph view 10 seconds later. The boring layer automates too one command cleans broken links, one merges duplicates, one turns 6 months of meeting notes into a single decisions log. Work that used to eat a Sunday now runs while you make coffee. Before: 4,300 notes, 900 orphans, search by keyword and prayer. After: an agent that read everything you ever wrote and drafts in your own voice, from your own sources, with receipts. People pay $30/month for AI note apps with 10% of this. You already own the other 90%. Your notes stopped being storage. They started being staff.

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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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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.

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West Lord

32,845 views • 3 months ago

48 HOURS AFTER KARPATHY POSTED HIS LLM WIKI IDEA, A 26-YEAR-OLD BIRMINGHAM GRAD SHIPPED THE ONE COMMAND THAT MAKES IT WORK. IT NOW HAS 76,000 GITHUB STARS 1 command. 71.5x fewer tokens per query. 0 vector databases points graphify at any folder - codebase, docs, PDFs, screenshots, video. Tree-sitter parses the code, Claude reads the prose, the whole thing lands as a knowledge graph in graphify-out/ one flag - --obsidian - writes the entire graph as a fully-linked Obsidian vault: one markdown note per concept, every relationship a wikilink, every node linked back to its source. Drop the vault into Claude Code as a skill. Claude queries the graph instead of grepping through raw files, forever Safi Shamsi finished his MSc at Birmingham with Distinction in 2025. His thesis was a knowledge-graph RAG system for academic search. He shipped Graphify 48 hours after Karpathy's post, iterates every week, and has already been forked by Rootly AI Labs for incident data. Hacker News, Analytics Vidhya, Towards AI - all organic.76,000 stars. Three months old no neo4j server. no vector db. no embedding pipeline. no cloud. no monthly fee you're reading this on a device that could clone the repo, run one command, and have a Claude-native knowledge graph of your entire codebase in Obsidian before your next standup

48 HOURS AFTER KARPATHY POSTED HIS LLM WIKI IDEA, A 26-YEAR-OLD BIRMINGHAM GRAD SHIPPED THE ONE COMMAND THAT MAKES IT WORK. IT NOW HAS 76,000 GITHUB STARS 1 command. 71.5x fewer tokens per query. 0 vector databases points graphify at any folder - codebase, docs, PDFs, screenshots, video. Tree-sitter parses the code, Claude reads the prose, the whole thing lands as a knowledge graph in graphify-out/ one flag - --obsidian - writes the entire graph as a fully-linked Obsidian vault: one markdown note per concept, every relationship a wikilink, every node linked back to its source. Drop the vault into Claude Code as a skill. Claude queries the graph instead of grepping through raw files, forever Safi Shamsi finished his MSc at Birmingham with Distinction in 2025. His thesis was a knowledge-graph RAG system for academic search. He shipped Graphify 48 hours after Karpathy's post, iterates every week, and has already been forked by Rootly AI Labs for incident data. Hacker News, Analytics Vidhya, Towards AI - all organic.76,000 stars. Three months old no neo4j server. no vector db. no embedding pipeline. no cloud. no monthly fee you're reading this on a device that could clone the repo, run one command, and have a Claude-native knowledge graph of your entire codebase in Obsidian before your next standup

chewa

302,160 views • 3 months ago

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 views • 2 months ago

THE OBSIDIAN CEO BUILT 5 CLAUDE CODE SKILLS, AND NOW A 2,400 NOTE VAULT CAN SORT ITSELF AT 7 A.M., FIX BROKEN LINKS, AND RESURFACE IDEAS FROM 2019 IN 10 SECONDS 00:06 he loads the obsidian skill inside claude code, and the graph stops being decoration. claude can read markdown, follow backlinks, edit canvas files, repair dead links, pull project context, and move through the vault like it understands the workspace instead of guessing from one prompt. most people do not have a note problem. they have an abandoned memory problem: 800 notes, 12 folders, 40 unfinished drafts, and a beautiful graph view that never actually helps. the article shows a 33 year old editor with 2,400 markdown files, 8 years of thinking, and zero useful access for a full year. that is why the ceo angle matters. this is not another random plugin. it is claude code learning obsidian’s actual language: backlinks, daily notes, canvas boards, raw captures, processed ideas, broken references, and old drafts buried so deep they might as well be gone. a real system only needs a few rules. one inbox for messy thoughts, one raw folder nobody edits, three backlinks on every new note, and a 7 a.m. run that sorts yesterday before you even open the laptop. weekly synthesis is where it gets dangerous. claude can compress 7 days of notes into one file with themes, contradictions, abandoned ideas, repeated promises, and the exact old note where the next article was hiding. bookmark this before your second brain becomes 2,400 dead files with a pretty graph.

THE OBSIDIAN CEO BUILT 5 CLAUDE CODE SKILLS, AND NOW A 2,400 NOTE VAULT CAN SORT ITSELF AT 7 A.M., FIX BROKEN LINKS, AND RESURFACE IDEAS FROM 2019 IN 10 SECONDS 00:06 he loads the obsidian skill inside claude code, and the graph stops being decoration. claude can read markdown, follow backlinks, edit canvas files, repair dead links, pull project context, and move through the vault like it understands the workspace instead of guessing from one prompt. most people do not have a note problem. they have an abandoned memory problem: 800 notes, 12 folders, 40 unfinished drafts, and a beautiful graph view that never actually helps. the article shows a 33 year old editor with 2,400 markdown files, 8 years of thinking, and zero useful access for a full year. that is why the ceo angle matters. this is not another random plugin. it is claude code learning obsidian’s actual language: backlinks, daily notes, canvas boards, raw captures, processed ideas, broken references, and old drafts buried so deep they might as well be gone. a real system only needs a few rules. one inbox for messy thoughts, one raw folder nobody edits, three backlinks on every new note, and a 7 a.m. run that sorts yesterday before you even open the laptop. weekly synthesis is where it gets dangerous. claude can compress 7 days of notes into one file with themes, contradictions, abandoned ideas, repeated promises, and the exact old note where the next article was hiding. bookmark this before your second brain becomes 2,400 dead files with a pretty graph.

Gipp 🦅

17,790 views • 3 months ago

🚨 THIS 100% FREE GITHUB REPO JUST MADE EVERY AI NOTE-TAKING APP POINTLESS. Drop any source in article, PDF, YouTube transcript, or Journal entry. Claude reads it, links it to everything in your vault, and files it into a connected knowledge graph on your own machine. Most tools save your notes. This one connects them. Every source gets linked to everything you already know. Karpathy described the idea - 15 skills. Four vault methods. Works with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini. Most people have years of knowledge buried in folders they open twice a year. This turns all of it into a second brain that works while you sleep. MY ARTICLE COVERS THE EXACT METHOD I BUILT TO DO THE SAME THING. Guide below!

🚨 THIS 100% FREE GITHUB REPO JUST MADE EVERY AI NOTE-TAKING APP POINTLESS. Drop any source in article, PDF, YouTube transcript, or Journal entry. Claude reads it, links it to everything in your vault, and files it into a connected knowledge graph on your own machine. Most tools save your notes. This one connects them. Every source gets linked to everything you already know. Karpathy described the idea - 15 skills. Four vault methods. Works with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini. Most people have years of knowledge buried in folders they open twice a year. This turns all of it into a second brain that works while you sleep. MY ARTICLE COVERS THE EXACT METHOD I BUILT TO DO THE SAME THING. Guide below!

Kanika

38,795 views • 2 months ago

THIS GUY TURNED OBSIDIAN INTO A DIGITAL TWIN OF HIS OWN BRAIN, 400 PLUS NODES, 6 KNOWLEDGE CLUSTERS, 1 LOCAL VAULT, AND A MAP THAT GETS SMARTER WITH EVERY NOTE 00:05 the graph begins as one dense sphere, then individual paths light up across the screen, showing how a single note can connect to dozens of ideas instead of disappearing inside another folder. most people store information in straight lines, one file after another. his vault grows like a network, research connects to projects, projects connect to decisions, and old notes keep feeding new work months later. after 100 notes, it still feels like storage. around 300, clusters begin exposing repeated interests, unfinished threads, and topics that keep returning even after he stops thinking about them. with claude connected, the network becomes usable context. instead of pasting 20 files into one chat, an agent can follow 5 linked notes, pull original sources, compare old decisions, and write the result back into the same vault. a real second brain is not the pretty graph. it is a local system where every new thought strengthens old connections, buried ideas come back when needed, and knowledge keeps compounding without leaving your machine.

THIS GUY TURNED OBSIDIAN INTO A DIGITAL TWIN OF HIS OWN BRAIN, 400 PLUS NODES, 6 KNOWLEDGE CLUSTERS, 1 LOCAL VAULT, AND A MAP THAT GETS SMARTER WITH EVERY NOTE 00:05 the graph begins as one dense sphere, then individual paths light up across the screen, showing how a single note can connect to dozens of ideas instead of disappearing inside another folder. most people store information in straight lines, one file after another. his vault grows like a network, research connects to projects, projects connect to decisions, and old notes keep feeding new work months later. after 100 notes, it still feels like storage. around 300, clusters begin exposing repeated interests, unfinished threads, and topics that keep returning even after he stops thinking about them. with claude connected, the network becomes usable context. instead of pasting 20 files into one chat, an agent can follow 5 linked notes, pull original sources, compare old decisions, and write the result back into the same vault. a real second brain is not the pretty graph. it is a local system where every new thought strengthens old connections, buried ideas come back when needed, and knowledge keeps compounding without leaving your machine.

Gipp 🦅

20,823 views • 2 months ago

The "Karpathy Method" Obsidian + Claude Code is quietly replacing $15/month note apps for 1000s of builders. The setup costs $0. Takes 10 minutes. And it's stupidly simple. Karpathy stores his entire brain in plain markdown files. No Notion. No database. A folder. People mocked it for years. Then Claude Code shipped an agent that lives in the terminal and reads files natively. Obsidian IS files. Notion hides your notes behind an API. Obsidian hands them to the agent raw. The "boomer stack" turned out to be the only one AI can walk through end to end. The method, 4 steps: Open your vault folder in terminal. Type claude. The agent now sees 100% of your notes. Drop a CLAUDE.md at the root. 40 lines: how you tag, how you link, what a good note looks like. Your brain's operating manual. Run 1 nightly job. Claude reads the day's dump links, highlights, half-thoughts and files it into atomic notes with backlinks. Once a week, ask 1 question: "what connects that I haven't connected?" Old notes collide into ideas you'd never find alone. A builder running this loop hit 4,120 notes in 5 months. Found 2 essay ideas in the collisions. Sold both for $3,400. Hardware: a $599 Mac Mini. Software: a folder. The industry spent 10 years building smarter note apps. Karpathy bet on the file. The file won.

The "Karpathy Method" Obsidian + Claude Code is quietly replacing $15/month note apps for 1000s of builders. The setup costs $0. Takes 10 minutes. And it's stupidly simple. Karpathy stores his entire brain in plain markdown files. No Notion. No database. A folder. People mocked it for years. Then Claude Code shipped an agent that lives in the terminal and reads files natively. Obsidian IS files. Notion hides your notes behind an API. Obsidian hands them to the agent raw. The "boomer stack" turned out to be the only one AI can walk through end to end. The method, 4 steps: Open your vault folder in terminal. Type claude. The agent now sees 100% of your notes. Drop a CLAUDE.md at the root. 40 lines: how you tag, how you link, what a good note looks like. Your brain's operating manual. Run 1 nightly job. Claude reads the day's dump links, highlights, half-thoughts and files it into atomic notes with backlinks. Once a week, ask 1 question: "what connects that I haven't connected?" Old notes collide into ideas you'd never find alone. A builder running this loop hit 4,120 notes in 5 months. Found 2 essay ideas in the collisions. Sold both for $3,400. Hardware: a $599 Mac Mini. Software: a folder. The industry spent 10 years building smarter note apps. Karpathy bet on the file. The file won.

Selina

36,122 views • 2 months ago

Anthropic engineer just built a second brain that reads 3 files instead of 5,000, and cut the token bill 40% no orchestrator, no plugin, just a router file, an index, and code that scores before the model ever opens anything point claude at a flat folder of notes and every question reads all of them, that’s the default and it’s expensive this breakdown turns that exact pattern into a system anyone can run CLAUDE.md → index.md → nodes → edges → retrieval as code → memory → ship it twelve steps, one shared rule, evidence lives in the index, the model reads three files while the notes folder still holds thousands the stale index test, one line drifts and the whole graph quietly turns back into the pile it was built to escape, no exceptions save it and watch, then read the article below

Anthropic engineer just built a second brain that reads 3 files instead of 5,000, and cut the token bill 40% no orchestrator, no plugin, just a router file, an index, and code that scores before the model ever opens anything point claude at a flat folder of notes and every question reads all of them, that’s the default and it’s expensive this breakdown turns that exact pattern into a system anyone can run CLAUDE.md → index.md → nodes → edges → retrieval as code → memory → ship it twelve steps, one shared rule, evidence lives in the index, the model reads three files while the notes folder still holds thousands the stale index test, one line drifts and the whole graph quietly turns back into the pile it was built to escape, no exceptions save it and watch, then read the article below

leopardracer

37,304 views • 2 months ago

Andrew Ng built agentic knowledge graph that runs agents loops from scratch: his agents searched thousands of tools through the graph, found the "right" one by meaning, and called it agent efficiency increased by 90% here's how: step 1 → embed every tool, search by meaning - not just keywords step 2 → but "similar" ≠ "correct" - it grabs the wrong one, skips the step before it step 3 → map tools as a graph - nodes are tools, edges are what runs before what step 4 → retrieve the path, not one tool - every tool the task needs, in order step 5 → bake the process into the graph - the sequence becomes data, not a guess most agents fail here and no one knows why - 1-hour brilliant course about it watch & bookmark - then read full course about graph engineering ↓

Andrew Ng built agentic knowledge graph that runs agents loops from scratch: his agents searched thousands of tools through the graph, found the "right" one by meaning, and called it agent efficiency increased by 90% here's how: step 1 → embed every tool, search by meaning - not just keywords step 2 → but "similar" ≠ "correct" - it grabs the wrong one, skips the step before it step 3 → map tools as a graph - nodes are tools, edges are what runs before what step 4 → retrieve the path, not one tool - every tool the task needs, in order step 5 → bake the process into the graph - the sequence becomes data, not a guess most agents fail here and no one knows why - 1-hour brilliant course about it watch & bookmark - then read full course about graph engineering ↓

codila

17,040 views • 2 months ago

Loops vs. Graphs, clearly explained! loops are great, but they have a ceiling: a loop makes one unit of work better. it cannot decide which units exist. so you end up with a very good agent running the wrong three steps, in the wrong order, one at a time. Graph engineering fixes this by moving the decision up a layer: what runs, what runs at the same time, and what never runs at all. you need both. here's how it works: a graph splits your system into two kinds of decision. ↳ inside a unit: the loop. produce, check, correct, repeat until green ↳ between units: the graph. split, fan out, merge, gate, send back Prompts → Context → Harness → Loops → Graphs you get parallel work, isolated contexts, and steps that stop running when nothing needs them. the trick is being selective about what becomes a node. only spend a model where judgment lives. merging, ranking, deduping and schema checks are edges, and edges are code. free, instant, and they cannot be argued out of a verdict. a graph where every edge is an agent pays rent on its own wiring. one thing to know before you scale it. a graph has two return paths, and almost everyone builds one. ↳ the correction edge is short. a gate rejects one unit back to the step that produced it, and it fixes the run you are in ↳ the learning edge is long. an accepted result goes back to the splitter as a constraint, and it fixes every run after skip the second and you get a graph that is fast and never gets smarter. next week it starts from the same place with the same blind spots. and a smaller one that eats whole nights: when a unit fails, return that unit, not the batch. send back four slices because one failed and you have just rewritten three correct ones. do it twice in a run and the run never converges. below i have quoted my full guide on graph engineering. it covers the three topologies, the verifier patterns, and where the gate should actually open. save this and read it below ↓

Loops vs. Graphs, clearly explained! loops are great, but they have a ceiling: a loop makes one unit of work better. it cannot decide which units exist. so you end up with a very good agent running the wrong three steps, in the wrong order, one at a time. Graph engineering fixes this by moving the decision up a layer: what runs, what runs at the same time, and what never runs at all. you need both. here's how it works: a graph splits your system into two kinds of decision. ↳ inside a unit: the loop. produce, check, correct, repeat until green ↳ between units: the graph. split, fan out, merge, gate, send back Prompts → Context → Harness → Loops → Graphs you get parallel work, isolated contexts, and steps that stop running when nothing needs them. the trick is being selective about what becomes a node. only spend a model where judgment lives. merging, ranking, deduping and schema checks are edges, and edges are code. free, instant, and they cannot be argued out of a verdict. a graph where every edge is an agent pays rent on its own wiring. one thing to know before you scale it. a graph has two return paths, and almost everyone builds one. ↳ the correction edge is short. a gate rejects one unit back to the step that produced it, and it fixes the run you are in ↳ the learning edge is long. an accepted result goes back to the splitter as a constraint, and it fixes every run after skip the second and you get a graph that is fast and never gets smarter. next week it starts from the same place with the same blind spots. and a smaller one that eats whole nights: when a unit fails, return that unit, not the batch. send back four slices because one failed and you have just rewritten three correct ones. do it twice in a run and the run never converges. below i have quoted my full guide on graph engineering. it covers the three topologies, the verifier patterns, and where the gate should actually open. save this and read it below ↓

Hanako

73,867 views • 1 month ago