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Everyone talks about building a second brain. 450 notes. 3 years of curation. Books, podcasts, articles, videos. I built a section of my site where an agent forces connections between ideas and writes exploratory essays from it. Your notes are dead if they sit in folders.

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Most people start Obsidian the wrong way. They import 10,000 notes. Build 50 folders. Install 20 plugins. Then quit a week later. If I had to restart Obsidian today, I’d do the opposite: • Start with 5 meaningful notes • Create ZERO folders • Ignore plugins completely • Focus only on connecting ideas That’s the real unlock. Obsidian isn’t a notes app. It’s a personal internet for your mind. The magic happens when you use one simple prompt: “This reminds me of…” A quote links to a book. A book links to a song. A song links to a memory. A memory links to an insight. That’s how real thinking compounds. The goal isn’t collecting information. It’s building connections your brain can return to later. AI can summarize notes. But only YOU can create meaningful links between ideas. That’s where the leverage is. Follow Dami-Defi for more AI alpha.

Most people start Obsidian the wrong way. They import 10,000 notes. Build 50 folders. Install 20 plugins. Then quit a week later. If I had to restart Obsidian today, I’d do the opposite: • Start with 5 meaningful notes • Create ZERO folders • Ignore plugins completely • Focus only on connecting ideas That’s the real unlock. Obsidian isn’t a notes app. It’s a personal internet for your mind. The magic happens when you use one simple prompt: “This reminds me of…” A quote links to a book. A book links to a song. A song links to a memory. A memory links to an insight. That’s how real thinking compounds. The goal isn’t collecting information. It’s building connections your brain can return to later. AI can summarize notes. But only YOU can create meaningful links between ideas. That’s where the leverage is. Follow Dami-Defi for more AI alpha.

Dami-Defi

71,024 次观看 • 2 个月前

Andrej Karpathy keeps his entire second brain in Obsidian 1 folder of plain text files, nothing else. Here’s the exact setup, free, that turns 1 vault into a brain you can actually query. Why most “second brains” die: Notion is a database you forget to open, ChatGPT memory wipes itself after 30 messages, and both lock your notes inside their cloud. Karpathy rule is the opposite: your notes are the 1 dataset nobody else on earth has, so keep them in plain markdown, own them forever, and let the AI read them later. 3 phases. Phase 1 — Capture with 0 friction. Install Obsidian free, local, 1 hotkey to a daily note. Dump everything into it: ideas, links, quotes, 2-line thoughts, no folders, no tags, no system. Target is 5 notes a day. Phase 2 — Let the graph connect itself. Install Smart Connections and it runs embeddings on every note you’ve ever written, so 2 notes you wrote 4 months apart and never linked by hand suddenly surface as neighbors. That’s the fireworks in the 3D graph each burst is a cluster of ideas your brain forgot it owned. Phase 3 — Query your brain. Point Claude at the vault and ask: “What did I actually think about X across all my notes?” It answers from 1,200 of your own notes, not the internet your taste, your edge, your dataset. The realistic curve looks like this: Week 1 — 40 notes, graph looks empty, feels like a waste. Month 1 — 300 notes, first real cluster forms. Month 3 — 1,200 notes, and the embeddings start surfacing links you’d long forgotten. Month 6 — you stop googling your own past ideas and just ask the vault. Before — 9 tabs, 3 note apps, 0 memory. After — 1 folder, 1,200 notes, 1 brain that compounds. The gap between people who consume and people who compound isn’t talent, it’s architecture. You build your own life so choose the right path.

Andrej Karpathy keeps his entire second brain in Obsidian 1 folder of plain text files, nothing else. Here’s the exact setup, free, that turns 1 vault into a brain you can actually query. Why most “second brains” die: Notion is a database you forget to open, ChatGPT memory wipes itself after 30 messages, and both lock your notes inside their cloud. Karpathy rule is the opposite: your notes are the 1 dataset nobody else on earth has, so keep them in plain markdown, own them forever, and let the AI read them later. 3 phases. Phase 1 — Capture with 0 friction. Install Obsidian free, local, 1 hotkey to a daily note. Dump everything into it: ideas, links, quotes, 2-line thoughts, no folders, no tags, no system. Target is 5 notes a day. Phase 2 — Let the graph connect itself. Install Smart Connections and it runs embeddings on every note you’ve ever written, so 2 notes you wrote 4 months apart and never linked by hand suddenly surface as neighbors. That’s the fireworks in the 3D graph each burst is a cluster of ideas your brain forgot it owned. Phase 3 — Query your brain. Point Claude at the vault and ask: “What did I actually think about X across all my notes?” It answers from 1,200 of your own notes, not the internet your taste, your edge, your dataset. The realistic curve looks like this: Week 1 — 40 notes, graph looks empty, feels like a waste. Month 1 — 300 notes, first real cluster forms. Month 3 — 1,200 notes, and the embeddings start surfacing links you’d long forgotten. Month 6 — you stop googling your own past ideas and just ask the vault. Before — 9 tabs, 3 note apps, 0 memory. After — 1 folder, 1,200 notes, 1 brain that compounds. The gap between people who consume and people who compound isn’t talent, it’s architecture. You build your own life so choose the right path.

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16,390 次观看 • 1 个月前

This guy opened Obsidian 90 days ago with 200 isolated notes rotting in folders he had not opened in 6 months. He just started linking. One note at a time. One connection at a time. Every single day. Today he has 847 notes and over 2,300 connections between them. The graph does not look like folders. It looks like a brain. And it shows him what he actually thinks about, not what he assumed he cared about. This is exactly why I built my Web Clipper workflow around connection and not storage. If you want to see how I turn heavy books and dense data into actual insights inside Obsidian, I wrote about my 6 best Web Clipper templates that I use daily. Link in the post. He is not smarter than he was 90 days ago. He just stopped filing and started linking. His notes are not stored. They are alive. If you have been using Obsidian as a glorified Google Drive folder, like and bookmark this. 90 days is all it takes.

This guy opened Obsidian 90 days ago with 200 isolated notes rotting in folders he had not opened in 6 months. He just started linking. One note at a time. One connection at a time. Every single day. Today he has 847 notes and over 2,300 connections between them. The graph does not look like folders. It looks like a brain. And it shows him what he actually thinks about, not what he assumed he cared about. This is exactly why I built my Web Clipper workflow around connection and not storage. If you want to see how I turn heavy books and dense data into actual insights inside Obsidian, I wrote about my 6 best Web Clipper templates that I use daily. Link in the post. He is not smarter than he was 90 days ago. He just stopped filing and started linking. His notes are not stored. They are alive. If you have been using Obsidian as a glorified Google Drive folder, like and bookmark this. 90 days is all it takes.

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Just spent 2 days hacking on a new app idea: SuperNote → an AI-powered note-taking app that lets you: ✅ Summarize PDFs, Audio, YouTube videos into notes ✅ Organize notes in custom folders (with moods 🌈) ✅ Instantly generate AI notes from transcripts ✅ Write + edit in a clean, minimal editor Honestly, I wasn’t planning to build this. It started as a quick experiment and snowballed. Sometimes you need to ship an MVP fast and see what happens. For my fellow indie hackers: You don’t need weeks/months You don’t need a huge team You just need one idea and a weekend of focus. 🔥 Built this in 2 days using: 🛠 Flutter 🛠 Supabase 🛠 OpenAI Now, I am thinking of turning it into a full product. If you're building similar AI-first tools. DM me!

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58,186 次观看 • 2 个月前

Tiago Forte has pioneered the concept of a Second Brain. As the author of two books, he's learned that quantity and quality aren't opposing forces. Here's what else he's taught me about writing: 1. The brain is for having ideas, not storing them. Write stuff down. 2. If you really want to learn something, don't just consume information. Create something about it. 3. Note-taking is a form of time-travel. You don’t just take notes to remember ideas. You also take notes to remember experiences. Reading your notes takes you back to a different state of consciousness. Note-taking is a rebellion against the entropy of memory. 4. Save only the best notes: Don't hoard information. Save only the top 5-10% of your ideas. That way, you can trust that everything in your note-taking system is high-quality. 5. Tiago’s dad is an artist who taught him an important lesson: the energy to create art can dissipate in small, invisible ways if you let it. Set up a structure where you have the peace of mind and the bandwidth to do art. 6. The ultimate goal of note-taking is to improve your ideas. Too many people treat note-taking as an end in itself. But the goal of note-taking isn’t to save information. It’s to have ideas you wouldn’t have had otherwise. To be smarter, faster, and more creative. 7. Link notes together. Organize your ideas by topic, not by source. As you browse your note-taking system, consider the serendipity you want to create for your future self. For example, if you read two books about a topic, link those notes together. 8. In school, we’re taught to research before we write. Do the opposite. Compile notes over time. Then, once you have an idea, start writing immediately — right when you have an epiphany. Start researching after you've written a draft. 9. Create evergreen notes. Like a good investment, the benefits of your note-taking system should compound in value. Save ideas that will stay relevant for many years. Read the classics, skip the news. 10. Tiago publicly tested every idea in his book. For most, the internet is a blackhole of distraction. But it can instead be used as a place to do low-stakes experiments before you go all in. 11. The more expensive the location for a writer's retreat, the more it forces you to be productive. 12. "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." — Gustave Flaubert, one of Tiago's favorite quotes. 13. The less formal and “official” a software program feels, the better Tiago writes. And he believes some of the best turns of phrase come out in messaging apps with friends. Stuck on something? Close the word doc and text a friend about it. 14. Every time you compress an idea, you make it more accessible. But you also lose context, depth, and nuance. 15. The ultimate test of how well you understand something is how clearly you can explain it in writing — clear writers are clear thinkers. 16. Twitter can help too. Stuck on a paragraph while writing your book? Well, send a tweet about it. If the idea resonates, bring it into your book. 17. Too many choices can cloud our creative process. The key to making progress is knowing when to take in new information and when to shut off all sources of distraction. Divergence and Convergence. 18. Anything you might want to accomplish—executing a project at work, getting a new job, learning a new skill, starting a business—requires finding and putting to use the right information. 19. Instead of working in “Heavy Lifts,” you can work in “Slow Burns.” Taking notes makes you less dependent on those long blocks of creative time you need when you have to complete creative projects in a single sitting. 20. Tiago: “If I could leave you with one last bit of advice, it is to chase what excites you.” 21. A bonus: “Run after your obsessions with everything you have. Just be sure to take notes along the way.” I've shared the full conversation with Tiago Forte here. If you'd rather listen on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple, check out the replies below.

Tiago Forte has pioneered the concept of a Second Brain. As the author of two books, he's learned that quantity and quality aren't opposing forces. Here's what else he's taught me about writing: 1. The brain is for having ideas, not storing them. Write stuff down. 2. If you really want to learn something, don't just consume information. Create something about it. 3. Note-taking is a form of time-travel. You don’t just take notes to remember ideas. You also take notes to remember experiences. Reading your notes takes you back to a different state of consciousness. Note-taking is a rebellion against the entropy of memory. 4. Save only the best notes: Don't hoard information. Save only the top 5-10% of your ideas. That way, you can trust that everything in your note-taking system is high-quality. 5. Tiago’s dad is an artist who taught him an important lesson: the energy to create art can dissipate in small, invisible ways if you let it. Set up a structure where you have the peace of mind and the bandwidth to do art. 6. The ultimate goal of note-taking is to improve your ideas. Too many people treat note-taking as an end in itself. But the goal of note-taking isn’t to save information. It’s to have ideas you wouldn’t have had otherwise. To be smarter, faster, and more creative. 7. Link notes together. Organize your ideas by topic, not by source. As you browse your note-taking system, consider the serendipity you want to create for your future self. For example, if you read two books about a topic, link those notes together. 8. In school, we’re taught to research before we write. Do the opposite. Compile notes over time. Then, once you have an idea, start writing immediately — right when you have an epiphany. Start researching after you've written a draft. 9. Create evergreen notes. Like a good investment, the benefits of your note-taking system should compound in value. Save ideas that will stay relevant for many years. Read the classics, skip the news. 10. Tiago publicly tested every idea in his book. For most, the internet is a blackhole of distraction. But it can instead be used as a place to do low-stakes experiments before you go all in. 11. The more expensive the location for a writer's retreat, the more it forces you to be productive. 12. "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." — Gustave Flaubert, one of Tiago's favorite quotes. 13. The less formal and “official” a software program feels, the better Tiago writes. And he believes some of the best turns of phrase come out in messaging apps with friends. Stuck on something? Close the word doc and text a friend about it. 14. Every time you compress an idea, you make it more accessible. But you also lose context, depth, and nuance. 15. The ultimate test of how well you understand something is how clearly you can explain it in writing — clear writers are clear thinkers. 16. Twitter can help too. Stuck on a paragraph while writing your book? Well, send a tweet about it. If the idea resonates, bring it into your book. 17. Too many choices can cloud our creative process. The key to making progress is knowing when to take in new information and when to shut off all sources of distraction. Divergence and Convergence. 18. Anything you might want to accomplish—executing a project at work, getting a new job, learning a new skill, starting a business—requires finding and putting to use the right information. 19. Instead of working in “Heavy Lifts,” you can work in “Slow Burns.” Taking notes makes you less dependent on those long blocks of creative time you need when you have to complete creative projects in a single sitting. 20. Tiago: “If I could leave you with one last bit of advice, it is to chase what excites you.” 21. A bonus: “Run after your obsessions with everything you have. Just be sure to take notes along the way.” I've shared the full conversation with Tiago Forte here. If you'd rather listen on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple, check out the replies below.

David Perell

101,346 次观看 • 2 年前

I turned a rejected conference talk into an essay about my journey into the wild world of "just ship your ideas." I call it Permissionless Building. Would mean a ton if you checked it out.

I turned a rejected conference talk into an essay about my journey into the wild world of "just ship your ideas." I call it Permissionless Building. Would mean a ton if you checked it out.

Kris Puckett

19,166 次观看 • 3 个月前

we just made it possible to upload your mind to the internet. Proxi is a living archive of your worldview. It ingests your public and private data(notes, articles, podcasts, journals) to reconstruct your thought patterns, contradictions and your unique lens into the world. You could interrogate how a founder thinks about distribution. get advice from a trader about your own thesis. stress test your ideas with people you admire. We’re opening it up today. clone yourself. talk to others. poke at worldviews you'd never get access to. try it here: [Link Below⬇️]

we just made it possible to upload your mind to the internet. Proxi is a living archive of your worldview. It ingests your public and private data(notes, articles, podcasts, journals) to reconstruct your thought patterns, contradictions and your unique lens into the world. You could interrogate how a founder thinks about distribution. get advice from a trader about your own thesis. stress test your ideas with people you admire. We’re opening it up today. clone yourself. talk to others. poke at worldviews you'd never get access to. try it here: [Link Below⬇️]

Celestine

20,433 次观看 • 6 个月前

Andrej Karpathy quietly shipped the best second brain idea in years not an app. a pattern. let an llm maintain a wiki of your notes. you dump sources, it reads them, links them, files them. knowledge compounds like interest. someone built it into a free claude code plugin. setup is two commands: claude plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian claude plugin install claude-obsidian@agricidaniel-claude-obsidian then open obsidian, open claude code in the same folder, type /wiki. that's it. your notes are now queryable by claude and they get richer every time you read something. bookmark this. best thing you'll build this weekend.

Andrej Karpathy quietly shipped the best second brain idea in years not an app. a pattern. let an llm maintain a wiki of your notes. you dump sources, it reads them, links them, files them. knowledge compounds like interest. someone built it into a free claude code plugin. setup is two commands: claude plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian claude plugin install claude-obsidian@agricidaniel-claude-obsidian then open obsidian, open claude code in the same folder, type /wiki. that's it. your notes are now queryable by claude and they get richer every time you read something. bookmark this. best thing you'll build this weekend.

Avid

338,253 次观看 • 1 个月前

A developer pointed Claude Code at a 6,200-note Obsidian vault and let it run overnight. The vault was 4 years of markdown. Meeting notes, half-ideas, book highlights. Dead weight. He hadn't opened 90% of it since 2022. He typed one line into the terminal. "Read everything. Find what I forgot." Then he went to bed. By 7 AM, Claude Code had touched all 6,200 files. It wrote 3 new notes. The first mapped 14 ideas scattered across 3 years into one product. He'd never seen they connected. The second listed 22 promises he'd made in old meeting notes and never kept. The third was a full essay. Stitched from 40 fragments. In his own phrasing. He hadn't written a note in 8 months. The vault had been writing itself the whole time. He just couldn't read his own handwriting at scale. Now Claude Code opens the vault every morning at 6:00. It links new notes to old ones. It flags contradictions. It drafts. 2 tools. 1 folder of plain text. No app, no cloud, no subscription. He stopped taking notes to remember them. He takes them now to be read back.

A developer pointed Claude Code at a 6,200-note Obsidian vault and let it run overnight. The vault was 4 years of markdown. Meeting notes, half-ideas, book highlights. Dead weight. He hadn't opened 90% of it since 2022. He typed one line into the terminal. "Read everything. Find what I forgot." Then he went to bed. By 7 AM, Claude Code had touched all 6,200 files. It wrote 3 new notes. The first mapped 14 ideas scattered across 3 years into one product. He'd never seen they connected. The second listed 22 promises he'd made in old meeting notes and never kept. The third was a full essay. Stitched from 40 fragments. In his own phrasing. He hadn't written a note in 8 months. The vault had been writing itself the whole time. He just couldn't read his own handwriting at scale. Now Claude Code opens the vault every morning at 6:00. It links new notes to old ones. It flags contradictions. It drafts. 2 tools. 1 folder of plain text. No app, no cloud, no subscription. He stopped taking notes to remember them. He takes them now to be read back.

Spike 1%

18,613 次观看 • 19 天前

THIS GUY BUILT A GOD-MODE SECOND BRAIN IN 3 STEPS THAT GETS SMARTER EVERY SINGLE DAY AND 10X HIS RESEARCH! Everyone hoards notes they never reopen, but he turned the dead pile into a brain that actually reads itself back, in three steps: > download Obsidian, make a vault, and point Claude Code at the folder > create two folders inside, raw-sources for everything you dump in and wiki where Claude writes the organized version, then drop in Andrej Karpathy's prompt > throw in every article, book note, meeting transcript and piece of research you ever saved and forgot Then you stop searching and start asking the wiki, "what are the gaps in my knowledge", "write me a briefing on this topic", and Claude pulls from your whole vault and answers with citations. Everyone copies the folders, but the part that actually matters is what happens next, every answer gets written back into the wiki and a weekly health check hunts for contradictions and outdated info, so it is not storage you query, it is a brain that compounds every day you use it. The full step by step guide with the Karpathy prompt and the .md files is in the article below.👇 P.S. you can send this article straight to your Claude to get the full context

THIS GUY BUILT A GOD-MODE SECOND BRAIN IN 3 STEPS THAT GETS SMARTER EVERY SINGLE DAY AND 10X HIS RESEARCH! Everyone hoards notes they never reopen, but he turned the dead pile into a brain that actually reads itself back, in three steps: > download Obsidian, make a vault, and point Claude Code at the folder > create two folders inside, raw-sources for everything you dump in and wiki where Claude writes the organized version, then drop in Andrej Karpathy's prompt > throw in every article, book note, meeting transcript and piece of research you ever saved and forgot Then you stop searching and start asking the wiki, "what are the gaps in my knowledge", "write me a briefing on this topic", and Claude pulls from your whole vault and answers with citations. Everyone copies the folders, but the part that actually matters is what happens next, every answer gets written back into the wiki and a weekly health check hunts for contradictions and outdated info, so it is not storage you query, it is a brain that compounds every day you use it. The full step by step guide with the Karpathy prompt and the .md files is in the article below.👇 P.S. you can send this article straight to your Claude to get the full context

Miraqle

15,128 次观看 • 1 个月前