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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.show more

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Terra2 months ago

I have one just like that but this one belongs to my mom

Froxxxie2 months ago

The fact that a plain folder + Claude Code is quietly beating $15/month note apps is actually the funniest part of this whole cycle.

Raja Chichulkar2 months ago

Nice share

Shanto2 months ago

This is awesome. It’s great to see simpler methods proving so effective. Proof that the basics are still king.

Raccoonline2 months ago

markdown never goes out of style 🦝

Floyd Javier2 months ago

Just a folder and markdown files. Minimalist approach is refreshing in a sea of complex tools.

XenAI2 months ago

Amazing

Pixel2 months ago

Plain markdown files + an agent that can actually read them. The file won.

SantrexAI2 months ago

Great post

Henkjan2 months ago

Simple systems often scale the best.

Voidlev2 months ago

ok this is actually genius, stealing the CLAUDE.md idea immediately

Lina2 months ago

Quality share

Aiden2 months ago

This is a fascinating approach to knowledge management. The elegance of leveraging plain text files with AI capabilities is truly impressive. It highlights the enduring power of foundational tools.

David Marco💡2 months ago

Great

Justin Brave💡2 months ago

Amazing post

Raihan2 months ago

Interesting share

Ayzaa2 months ago

That's great

Curiosity2 months ago

Great

Nihan2 months ago

Great Share

Panna AI2 months ago

Nice share

安叫兽|Bird🕊️ 🔶 BNB2 months ago

绕了一圈还是文件夹最靠谱

AI Mastery Guide2 months ago

Notion hides notes, Obsidian hands them over. Wild.

Kabel-Salat | AI & Tech2 months ago

Plain Markdown statt 15 Dollar Abo. Revolutionär: Die Zukunft des Wissens ist offenbar ein Ordner, den Menschen seit 1984 erfolgreich ignorieren.

AnderSon2 months ago

Great

David Marco2 months ago

Awesome share

Ryan Malone2 months ago

It's far from simple to create and more importantly. Manage.

Monami2 months ago

Thanks for sharing

ayan2 months ago

Cool

Harry Flux AI2 months ago

Nice share

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27,624 views • 13 days 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

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

CLAUDE + OBSIDIAN + LOOP ENGINEERING = AN AGENT THAT LIVES INSIDE YOUR NOTES Karpathy's second brain runs on something close to this two years of growth almost none of it typed by him • the loop, four steps on repeat > read - Claude Opus 5 opens the vault, not a chat window > write - notes and links get edited inside a branch > check - a critic reads the diff and walks every link > keep - the good change lands, the rest is left where it was • the math > costs 2-4x a single prompt > pays for itself past a 5% gain > zero notes overwritten, the vault only grows • the whole system, six plain files > CLAUDE.md, skills, subagents, hooks, MCP, plugins > you can read every one of them in an afternoon • three ways in > desktop connector - three clicks > Claude Code - full control > Obsidian plugin - you never leave the app the rules that keep it safe: append, never overwrite measure the gain before you add another step don't let it rewrite the whole vault in one turn set this up on a saturday and by december your vault answers questions your team is still googling a loop that never deletes a note is compound interest on your own thinking the stack: 📁 Claude ↳ 📁 Obsidian ↳

CLAUDE + OBSIDIAN + LOOP ENGINEERING = AN AGENT THAT LIVES INSIDE YOUR NOTES Karpathy's second brain runs on something close to this two years of growth almost none of it typed by him • the loop, four steps on repeat > read - Claude Opus 5 opens the vault, not a chat window > write - notes and links get edited inside a branch > check - a critic reads the diff and walks every link > keep - the good change lands, the rest is left where it was • the math > costs 2-4x a single prompt > pays for itself past a 5% gain > zero notes overwritten, the vault only grows • the whole system, six plain files > CLAUDE.md, skills, subagents, hooks, MCP, plugins > you can read every one of them in an afternoon • three ways in > desktop connector - three clicks > Claude Code - full control > Obsidian plugin - you never leave the app the rules that keep it safe: append, never overwrite measure the gain before you add another step don't let it rewrite the whole vault in one turn set this up on a saturday and by december your vault answers questions your team is still googling a loop that never deletes a note is compound interest on your own thinking the stack: 📁 Claude ↳ 📁 Obsidian ↳

Annatar.md

11,643 views • 9 days ago

YOUR AI IS FORGETTING EVERYTHING YOU TAUGHT IT YESTERDAY. That is why most outputs still feel generic. The people getting real leverage in 2026 fixed this with one setup: Obsidian + Claude Code. Obsidian stores your thinking. Claude Code reads the patterns. Your notes become permanent context the agent can access anytime: Daily thoughts. Projects. Ideas. Contradictions. Questions you keep returning to. Then the real unlock: Custom slash commands. `/context` loads your recent thinking instantly. `/emerge` finds hidden ideas across your notes. `/challenge` tests your beliefs against your past writing. `/trace` maps how your thinking evolved over time. One critical rule: The AI never writes to the vault. You write. The agent reads. That is what keeps the system valuable. At first it feels like note-taking. Eventually it feels like a second brain.

YOUR AI IS FORGETTING EVERYTHING YOU TAUGHT IT YESTERDAY. That is why most outputs still feel generic. The people getting real leverage in 2026 fixed this with one setup: Obsidian + Claude Code. Obsidian stores your thinking. Claude Code reads the patterns. Your notes become permanent context the agent can access anytime: Daily thoughts. Projects. Ideas. Contradictions. Questions you keep returning to. Then the real unlock: Custom slash commands. `/context` loads your recent thinking instantly. `/emerge` finds hidden ideas across your notes. `/challenge` tests your beliefs against your past writing. `/trace` maps how your thinking evolved over time. One critical rule: The AI never writes to the vault. You write. The agent reads. That is what keeps the system valuable. At first it feels like note-taking. Eventually it feels like a second brain.

Dami-Defi

41,299 views • 4 months ago

THIS GUY BUILT AN AUTONOMOUS AI AGENT OUT OF CLAUDE CODE + OBSIDIAN and this is way more interesting than another “use AI to take notes” demo the trick is simple: Obsidian is not the writing app here. it becomes the agent’s memory, task board, and context folder. Claude Code is not just answering prompts. it reads the vault, edits files, follows instructions, and keeps moving through the work like a junior operator with a filesystem. the reusable setup looks like this: 1. create an Obsidian vault for one project 2. keep goals, rules, tasks, decisions, and references as markdown files 3. point Claude Code at the folder 4. give it a clear operating loop: read context → choose next task → execute → write back what changed 5. use the notes as persistent memory instead of re-explaining the project every chat that’s the part people miss. the “agent” is not magic. it’s the boring combination of: - local files - explicit rules - task state - write access - a model that can run through the repo/vault Obsidian makes the memory human-readable. Claude Code makes the memory executable. that combo is why the video worked: it turns a notes app into an operating surface for actual work. best use cases: - content systems - research vaults - coding projects - client ops docs - personal knowledge bases that need actions, not just storage the caveat: if your vault is messy, your agent becomes messy too. folders, naming, “done” criteria, and forbidden actions matter more than the prompt. but once the structure is clean, this is one of the easiest ways to build an agent that remembers what happened yesterday without paying for a full custom app.

THIS GUY BUILT AN AUTONOMOUS AI AGENT OUT OF CLAUDE CODE + OBSIDIAN and this is way more interesting than another “use AI to take notes” demo the trick is simple: Obsidian is not the writing app here. it becomes the agent’s memory, task board, and context folder. Claude Code is not just answering prompts. it reads the vault, edits files, follows instructions, and keeps moving through the work like a junior operator with a filesystem. the reusable setup looks like this: 1. create an Obsidian vault for one project 2. keep goals, rules, tasks, decisions, and references as markdown files 3. point Claude Code at the folder 4. give it a clear operating loop: read context → choose next task → execute → write back what changed 5. use the notes as persistent memory instead of re-explaining the project every chat that’s the part people miss. the “agent” is not magic. it’s the boring combination of: - local files - explicit rules - task state - write access - a model that can run through the repo/vault Obsidian makes the memory human-readable. Claude Code makes the memory executable. that combo is why the video worked: it turns a notes app into an operating surface for actual work. best use cases: - content systems - research vaults - coding projects - client ops docs - personal knowledge bases that need actions, not just storage the caveat: if your vault is messy, your agent becomes messy too. folders, naming, “done” criteria, and forbidden actions matter more than the prompt. but once the structure is clean, this is one of the easiest ways to build an agent that remembers what happened yesterday without paying for a full custom app.

kocer

30,403 views • 3 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

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

Yarchi

141,580 views • 3 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 • 2 months ago

KARPATHY WROTE THIS DOCUMENT TO TURN OBSIDIAN INTO A SECOND BRAIN THAT RUNS ITSELF ON CLAUDE I was ready to abandon mine cross-referencing everything by hand was eating my week then I found this document and the whole approach flipped Karpathy's method turns the model into a full-time maintainer for your vault: • what the agent actually does > reads every new source and files it into a structured wiki > writes the links for you, so the vault compounds while you sleep > runs checks that surface contradictions between your own notes > keeps Obsidian as the visual layer while Claude works the backend • what changed for me > I feed it raw documents and stop thinking about structure > nothing gets manually filed, nothing gets lost > the friction is gone two years of notes stop being a graveyard and start being an asset you can query that's the difference between reading about your field and being the person in the room who already knows the answer here is the document from Karpathy explaining the architecture 👇

KARPATHY WROTE THIS DOCUMENT TO TURN OBSIDIAN INTO A SECOND BRAIN THAT RUNS ITSELF ON CLAUDE I was ready to abandon mine cross-referencing everything by hand was eating my week then I found this document and the whole approach flipped Karpathy's method turns the model into a full-time maintainer for your vault: • what the agent actually does > reads every new source and files it into a structured wiki > writes the links for you, so the vault compounds while you sleep > runs checks that surface contradictions between your own notes > keeps Obsidian as the visual layer while Claude works the backend • what changed for me > I feed it raw documents and stop thinking about structure > nothing gets manually filed, nothing gets lost > the friction is gone two years of notes stop being a graveyard and start being an asset you can query that's the difference between reading about your field and being the person in the room who already knows the answer here is the document from Karpathy explaining the architecture 👇

Annatar.md

15,040 views • 9 days ago

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

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

kocer

17,240 views • 1 month ago

how to use obsidian + claude code to build a 24/7 personal operating system and build your startup: 1. write everything in markdown (daily notes, projects, beliefs, people, meetings) 2. link your notes together so they mirror how your brain actually thinks. 3. install obsidian cli so claude code can read your entire vault + the relationships. 4. stop reexplaining projects every session. use reference files instead. 5. build custom slash commands: /context → load your full life + work state /trace → see how an idea evolved over months /connect → bridge two domains you’ve been circling /ideas → generate startup ideas from your vault /graduate → promote daily thoughts into real assets 6. keep a strict rule: human writes the vault. agents read it, suggest, execute. 7. let claude aka clode surface patterns you’ve been unconsciously circling for years. 8. delegate from inside your notes. one sentence in obsidian → agent handles the rest. 9. treat writing as leverage.the more you write, the more context your agents have. 10. understand this:markdown files are the oxygen of llms. i really enjoyed seeing how to use obsidian thanks to internetVin vin uses ai like a thinking partner wired into his life’s work. 99.99% of people won’t do this because it requires reflection + setup. but once the vault exists, the agent stops being generic. it starts thinking in your voice. episode is live on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 (more there) this one is different. send this tweet to a friend. im still processing how game changer obsidian + claude code is, maybe you too watch

how to use obsidian + claude code to build a 24/7 personal operating system and build your startup: 1. write everything in markdown (daily notes, projects, beliefs, people, meetings) 2. link your notes together so they mirror how your brain actually thinks. 3. install obsidian cli so claude code can read your entire vault + the relationships. 4. stop reexplaining projects every session. use reference files instead. 5. build custom slash commands: /context → load your full life + work state /trace → see how an idea evolved over months /connect → bridge two domains you’ve been circling /ideas → generate startup ideas from your vault /graduate → promote daily thoughts into real assets 6. keep a strict rule: human writes the vault. agents read it, suggest, execute. 7. let claude aka clode surface patterns you’ve been unconsciously circling for years. 8. delegate from inside your notes. one sentence in obsidian → agent handles the rest. 9. treat writing as leverage.the more you write, the more context your agents have. 10. understand this:markdown files are the oxygen of llms. i really enjoyed seeing how to use obsidian thanks to internetVin vin uses ai like a thinking partner wired into his life’s work. 99.99% of people won’t do this because it requires reflection + setup. but once the vault exists, the agent stops being generic. it starts thinking in your voice. episode is live on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 (more there) this one is different. send this tweet to a friend. im still processing how game changer obsidian + claude code is, maybe you too watch

GREG ISENBERG

1,141,190 views • 7 months ago