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"how do you remember everything you read?" I don't. Claude does. every article, PDF, and transcript goes into one Obsidian folder. Claude reads it, breaks it into atomic notes, links it to the rest. I just ask. that's Karpathy's second-brain method. three folders, one file. full guide below.

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Cookbook2 months ago

We've been working on the team version of this. One thing we found: letting the AI rewrite notes in place slowly loses meaning. Adding new notes and marking the old ones replaced (originals kept) works better. Another issue: every note counts the same, even the one that was wrong last week. What fixed it for us: notes gain trust when work that used them actually succeeds. The hard part starts when a second person and their agent share the wiki.

Eriks Briedis2 months ago

Linking them back is where mine fell over. Notes compiled out of Claude sessions, and six months in I had two of them claiming opposite things with nothing saying which one won. Now every note gets a supersedes field.

AI Mastery Guide2 months ago

Turning notes into a linked second brain is such a good idea

Artzy2 months ago

atomic notes make one obsidian folder feel searchable

qurool2 months ago

nice share mate, we don't have to use one brain if we can use two

Placar Brasil2 months ago

salvar as notas em um banco e pedir pro LLM cruzar com o que leu hoje.效能 🔥

DeepRead.com2 months ago

A book's chapter and part structure is the author's logic made explicit. Link atoms along that skeleton and you reconstruct how they think.

Alpha Batcher2 months ago

Claude does everything for me

William Lockard2 months ago

The value of this is overstated often

Tony Tong | Founder | Ancient Systems x AI1 month ago

Similar setup here. Claude plus an indexing layer on top of Obsidian, so pulling from thousands of notes stays fast instead of a manual search every time, same idea as how a database gets indexed for speed.

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I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet. Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder, posted a simple idea that went massively viral: Stop using AI to write code. Use it to build a second brain. You point Claude Code at a folder. Drop in any source: an article, a transcript, a PDF. Claude reads it, links it, files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest. The more you feed it, the smarter it gets. Here's the whole thing: 1) Install Obsidian 2) Create a vault 3) Open it in Claude Code 4) Paste Karpathy's wiki idea and tell Claude to build it 5) Claude makes three folders: - raw (for sources) - wiki (for its pages) - CLAUDE. md (that runs it) 6) Drop any source into raw and say: "ingest this" 7) Ask questions across everything, forever Five minutes to set up and you never start from a blank chat again. Full step by step guide below.

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet. Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder, posted a simple idea that went massively viral: Stop using AI to write code. Use it to build a second brain. You point Claude Code at a folder. Drop in any source: an article, a transcript, a PDF. Claude reads it, links it, files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest. The more you feed it, the smarter it gets. Here's the whole thing: 1) Install Obsidian 2) Create a vault 3) Open it in Claude Code 4) Paste Karpathy's wiki idea and tell Claude to build it 5) Claude makes three folders: - raw (for sources) - wiki (for its pages) - CLAUDE. md (that runs it) 6) Drop any source into raw and say: "ingest this" 7) Ask questions across everything, forever Five minutes to set up and you never start from a blank chat again. Full step by step guide below.

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🚨 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!

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An asian guy has discovered a method to learn anything ten times faster using AI! It just involves the Claude + Obsidian. Most people learn the slow way: read, forget, re-read, forget again. His flip: use Claude to turn anything you're learning into small, connected notes. Use Obsidian to link them so nothing you learn ever sits alone. The slow way: highlight a book, move on, forget it in a week. The fast way: Claude breaks it into atomic notes, and Obsidian links them into a growing web of knowledge. Six months in, one new idea instantly connects to twenty things you already know. I broke down every Claude resource you should try to master claude in 7 days with practical guide that most people have never found. Article below ↓

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Hamza Khalid

933,618 views • 3 months ago

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.

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339,134 views • 4 months ago

everyone's talking about building a second brain with claude code + obsidian right now. so i made a full video walkthrough showing exactly how to set it up from scratch. drop an article into a folder. claude code reads it, creates wiki pages, builds relationships between concepts, and links everything automatically. by 20 sources your wiki knows more about your domain than you can hold in your head. here's the full setup:

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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

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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.

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13,775 views • 2 months ago

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.

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This beginner guide to Karpathy's LLM Wiki is one of the most useful AI videos i've shared this year Karpathy's idea: instead of asking AI questions every time, make it build you a permanent knowledge base that grows smarter over time > drop your documents into a folder > Claude reads them and builds a structured wiki in Obsidian > every time you add a new source, Claude Sonnet updates existing pages and links new ideas > ask complex questions - Claude Opus answers from the organized wiki, not raw files it's like having a researcher who never forgets and connects dots across everything you've ever given it full setup guide is in the video above

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58,787 views • 4 months ago

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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Yarchi

141,580 views • 3 months ago

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 next

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 next

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11,994 views • 2 months ago

Cancel your Saturday night plans. Read the 33-page Claude Skills guide Anthropic just dropped. $5K/month. $10K/month. $20K/month. People are building systems that remember everything. automate everything. run everything. Meanwhile you're re-explaining your workflow to Claude. again. for the 100th time. While you're wasting tokens on context — someone just taught Claude their entire job in 15 minutes. Same Saturday. Different decision. One folder. One SKILL.md file. That's it. Guide below.

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16,060 views • 5 months ago

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.

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32,845 views • 3 months ago

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 views • 3 months ago

i keep telling people to build this and they nod politely and never do it... andrej karpathy posted how to fix this a while ago, and everyone just keeps working the old way the dumb thing is this... you pay to teach claude the same lessons over and over, every chat is a fresh amnesia patient, every contradiction it catches evaporates the second you close the tab, and you accept this like it's just how ai works 1. one folder is a graveyard for originals that nobody edits, another folder is claude's active memory that only claude writes to, a third folder is a two-page rulebook that keeps claude from confusing them 2. a raw file gets read the day it arrives and then it's done, claude never touches it again, everything it needed is already extracted into wiki pages with the source cited right there 3. every time claude notices your new answer clashes with your old one, it doesn't pick a side, it writes both with dates, and from then on it treats you like someone who might be wrong the raw folder is a museum... the wiki is the actual working brain full breakdown is in the article below

i keep telling people to build this and they nod politely and never do it... andrej karpathy posted how to fix this a while ago, and everyone just keeps working the old way the dumb thing is this... you pay to teach claude the same lessons over and over, every chat is a fresh amnesia patient, every contradiction it catches evaporates the second you close the tab, and you accept this like it's just how ai works 1. one folder is a graveyard for originals that nobody edits, another folder is claude's active memory that only claude writes to, a third folder is a two-page rulebook that keeps claude from confusing them 2. a raw file gets read the day it arrives and then it's done, claude never touches it again, everything it needed is already extracted into wiki pages with the source cited right there 3. every time claude notices your new answer clashes with your old one, it doesn't pick a side, it writes both with dates, and from then on it treats you like someone who might be wrong the raw folder is a museum... the wiki is the actual working brain full breakdown is in the article below

kai

32,740 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

open Claude Code type a prompt. one model does everything. congrats, you just used 20% of it meanwhile I built 30 sub-agents one reviews my code before commit one finds bugs and writes the patch one drafts cold emails from one line one triages my inbox before I wake up one logs every decision so future me knows why each agent = one markdown file in .claude/agents/ most Claude Code users don't even know this exists. all 30 files in the article. ready to copy. the article has every file. every prompt. just copy and run.

open Claude Code type a prompt. one model does everything. congrats, you just used 20% of it meanwhile I built 30 sub-agents one reviews my code before commit one finds bugs and writes the patch one drafts cold emails from one line one triages my inbox before I wake up one logs every decision so future me knows why each agent = one markdown file in .claude/agents/ most Claude Code users don't even know this exists. all 30 files in the article. ready to copy. the article has every file. every prompt. just copy and run.

Nav Toor

71,541 views • 5 months ago

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

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

Yarchi

32,594 views • 3 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

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

111,095 views • 3 months ago