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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.

Kanika

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An China guy discovered a method to learn any knowledge instantly using AI. The key is Obsidian + any AI — Kimi, Claude, or Gemini. Most people learn slowly: read, forget, read again, forget again. His method: use AI to transform any content into small, interconnected notes. Use Obsidian to link them, so every piece of knowledge is never isolated. Slow method: highlight books, keep going, forget after a week. Fast method: AI breaks it into atomic notes, Obsidian links them into a network. Six months later, a new idea instantly connects to twenty things you already know. I compiled the full A–Z guide to building a second brain with Obsidian — works with Kimi, Claude, or Gemini — that most people have never discovered. Article below

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Kirill

73,340 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

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

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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

928,928 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

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

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

Spike 1%

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A 26-year-old plugged Claude Code into his Obsidian vault and the vault started working night shifts. 9,412 notes. 6 years of reading, ideas, half-dead projects. Dead weight until 3 weeks ago. He pointed Claude Code at the vault folder. No plugins. No API glue. The vault is just markdown files, and Claude Code reads files. That's the whole trick everyone misses. Now every night at 2 AM a cron job wakes Claude inside the vault: reads the 40 newest notes links them to old ones he forgot existed writes a daily brief called "what your brain missed" drafts 3 content ideas from collisions between notes Morning 1 it connected a 2021 note on Roman logistics with a 2026 note on AI agent routing. That collision became a post. 214,000 views. Morning 9 it found a SaaS idea buried in a book summary from 2022. He built the landing page the same day. 61 signups before dinner. Morning 17 it flagged that 3 of his abandoned drafts were the same idea written 3 times. He merged them. Best thing he's shipped this year. Cost: $0 in new tools. Obsidian is free. The vault was already there. 6 years he treated his second brain like a warehouse. Turns out it was an employee waiting for a boss.

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147,951 Aufrufe • vor 27 Tagen

THE CREATOR OF OBSIDIAN JUST SHIPPED HIS OWN CLAUDE SKILLS PACK 44,000 developers already installed it. most people building second brains with claude have no idea it exists these aren't community skills. they're written by kepano himself - the person who built obsidian. that means they respect obsidian's actual conventions: markdown, bases, JSON canvas, backlinks, plugins, all of it drop them into your claude skills folder once. next time you say "summarize my notes about karpathy" or "extract this article to my inbox," the right skill wakes up automatically. no prompt engineering. no manual context. no config i tested 10 claude + obsidian repos to write my full breakdown. this is the one with the highest trust factor - because the person shipping it is the one who defined what an obsidian vault even looks like the full ranked breakdown of all 10 is in the article i test things like this on myself and share the results. follow kai if you want to see what's next

THE CREATOR OF OBSIDIAN JUST SHIPPED HIS OWN CLAUDE SKILLS PACK 44,000 developers already installed it. most people building second brains with claude have no idea it exists these aren't community skills. they're written by kepano himself - the person who built obsidian. that means they respect obsidian's actual conventions: markdown, bases, JSON canvas, backlinks, plugins, all of it drop them into your claude skills folder once. next time you say "summarize my notes about karpathy" or "extract this article to my inbox," the right skill wakes up automatically. no prompt engineering. no manual context. no config i tested 10 claude + obsidian repos to write my full breakdown. this is the one with the highest trust factor - because the person shipping it is the one who defined what an obsidian vault even looks like the full ranked breakdown of all 10 is in the article i test things like this on myself and share the results. follow kai if you want to see what's next

kai

253,316 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen

THIS IS ANDREJ KARPATHY'S OBSIDIAN VAULT : THE BRAIN ANTHROPIC JUST HIRED FOR MILLIONS This is every idea, every decision and every connection he's made over years of work, visualized in real time. Everything else gets lost. The pattern you noticed last March. The connection between two problems you solved a year apart. The idea that would've changed everything if you'd remembered it in the room. This system keeps all of it. Every note links to another. Every link becomes a path. Every path is a decision he can retrace in seconds while everyone else starts from zero. Thousands of nodes. Hundreds of live connections. Years of thinking that never decayed, never died in a Slack thread, never got buried in a meeting nobody remembers. The breakthroughs aren't luck. They're the system handing him back a link he made eighteen months ago and forgot he had. No team. No wiki. No standups. One person and a tool that remembers everything he can't. Most people open Obsidian and make three notes they never open again. He built an operating system for his own thinking. Anthropic just paid millions for the output - this is the machine that produced it.

THIS IS ANDREJ KARPATHY'S OBSIDIAN VAULT : THE BRAIN ANTHROPIC JUST HIRED FOR MILLIONS This is every idea, every decision and every connection he's made over years of work, visualized in real time. Everything else gets lost. The pattern you noticed last March. The connection between two problems you solved a year apart. The idea that would've changed everything if you'd remembered it in the room. This system keeps all of it. Every note links to another. Every link becomes a path. Every path is a decision he can retrace in seconds while everyone else starts from zero. Thousands of nodes. Hundreds of live connections. Years of thinking that never decayed, never died in a Slack thread, never got buried in a meeting nobody remembers. The breakthroughs aren't luck. They're the system handing him back a link he made eighteen months ago and forgot he had. No team. No wiki. No standups. One person and a tool that remembers everything he can't. Most people open Obsidian and make three notes they never open again. He built an operating system for his own thinking. Anthropic just paid millions for the output - this is the machine that produced it.

Avid

64,799 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

🚨 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 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen

THIS GUY BUILT HIS ENTIRE COMMAND CENTER INSIDE OBSIDIAN USING A SINGLE CLAUDE INSTANCE AND NOW HE NEVER LEAVES IT He calls it handro operator Here’s what’s actually running inside: > Live Claude usage tracking (tokens, models and real-time costs) > A ClickUp task queue with Claude generated action suggestions that can be executed immediately > Full calendar sync > A custom intelligence feed for signals and news (AI video, Reddit, frontier research, searchable by keywords and time) > An Intelligence tab with Gmail highlights, Slack activity and Fireflies meeting transcripts > The ability to reply to emails and Slack messages directly from Obsidian without ever leaving the vault He built the whole thing in a single day: Mood board → defined the specs → dropped everything into Claude with one prompt → got a complete dashboard UI kit → fed it back into Claude → Claude mapped and connected everything automatically The article below goes deeper into how to reduce token usage when combining Claude with Obsidian Save both the post and the article - you might end up combining the ideas into a single product later

THIS GUY BUILT HIS ENTIRE COMMAND CENTER INSIDE OBSIDIAN USING A SINGLE CLAUDE INSTANCE AND NOW HE NEVER LEAVES IT He calls it handro operator Here’s what’s actually running inside: > Live Claude usage tracking (tokens, models and real-time costs) > A ClickUp task queue with Claude generated action suggestions that can be executed immediately > Full calendar sync > A custom intelligence feed for signals and news (AI video, Reddit, frontier research, searchable by keywords and time) > An Intelligence tab with Gmail highlights, Slack activity and Fireflies meeting transcripts > The ability to reply to emails and Slack messages directly from Obsidian without ever leaving the vault He built the whole thing in a single day: Mood board → defined the specs → dropped everything into Claude with one prompt → got a complete dashboard UI kit → fed it back into Claude → Claude mapped and connected everything automatically The article below goes deeper into how to reduce token usage when combining Claude with Obsidian Save both the post and the article - you might end up combining the ideas into a single product later

Bonsai 🌳

21,343 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

i spent 40 minutes explaining to Claude who i am. my niche. my voice. my audience. what i never say. generic output. every single time. turns out the problem wasn't Claude. it was me giving it nothing to work with. the fix: a knowledge layer. 20 minutes to set up. your notes, tweets, articles dumped into one folder. agent reads it overnight and builds 200+ wiki pages from your own thinking. next morning your AI finally sounds like you. 90% of people skip this. they just prompt → accept → ship. and wonder why everything sounds the same. and if you learn to set this up for others? 10 clients = $56,800/year. full guide below 👇

i spent 40 minutes explaining to Claude who i am. my niche. my voice. my audience. what i never say. generic output. every single time. turns out the problem wasn't Claude. it was me giving it nothing to work with. the fix: a knowledge layer. 20 minutes to set up. your notes, tweets, articles dumped into one folder. agent reads it overnight and builds 200+ wiki pages from your own thinking. next morning your AI finally sounds like you. 90% of people skip this. they just prompt → accept → ship. and wonder why everything sounds the same. and if you learn to set this up for others? 10 clients = $56,800/year. full guide below 👇

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10,742 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

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

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

Yarchi

58,186 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Nobody will see this but this is how I do research 10x faster now > I drop a topic into Claude Code > It finds 10 relevant YouTube sources automatically > Sends them to NotebookLM 6 minutes later I get a full structured analysis, an infographic, and a markdown file saved to my vault Before this I was spending 3 hours doing the same thing manually and ending up with messy notes I'd never look at again Now the system does it in one command and the output gets better every time I use it full setup guide in the article

Nobody will see this but this is how I do research 10x faster now > I drop a topic into Claude Code > It finds 10 relevant YouTube sources automatically > Sends them to NotebookLM 6 minutes later I get a full structured analysis, an infographic, and a markdown file saved to my vault Before this I was spending 3 hours doing the same thing manually and ending up with messy notes I'd never look at again Now the system does it in one command and the output gets better every time I use it full setup guide in the article

monokern

188,387 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

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 Aufrufe • vor 26 Tagen

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.

Spike 1%

16,390 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

I was paying $500/month for 9 apps that made me feel productive without actually being productive! Notion. Roam. Evernote. Todoist. Bear. Readwise. Cron. Craft. Superhuman. Every one of them solved a real problem. Every one of them created a new one. Information scattered across nine places. Twenty minutes a day minimum switching between them. $500 leaving the account every month. Then everything moved into Obsidian. One app. Local files. No subscription. No sync issues. No data locked in a proprietary format. No "your account has been downgraded" email from an app that got acquired. That was 18 months ago. This is the exact vault setup. The folder structure. The templates. The plugins. The workflows. All of it. Free to take and adapt. $500 a month back in your pocket and everything in one place. Bookmark this gem so you do not lose it! Follow NeilXbt for more Obsidian and productivity builds..

I was paying $500/month for 9 apps that made me feel productive without actually being productive! Notion. Roam. Evernote. Todoist. Bear. Readwise. Cron. Craft. Superhuman. Every one of them solved a real problem. Every one of them created a new one. Information scattered across nine places. Twenty minutes a day minimum switching between them. $500 leaving the account every month. Then everything moved into Obsidian. One app. Local files. No subscription. No sync issues. No data locked in a proprietary format. No "your account has been downgraded" email from an app that got acquired. That was 18 months ago. This is the exact vault setup. The folder structure. The templates. The plugins. The workflows. All of it. Free to take and adapt. $500 a month back in your pocket and everything in one place. Bookmark this gem so you do not lose it! Follow NeilXbt for more Obsidian and productivity builds..

NeilXbt

25,865 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

365 days ago I made a decision that saved my life. Not a diet. Not another fresh start that fizzled out by February. A decision to stop doing what was killing me and start doing what my body was actually built for. Today is my one year carniversary. And I need you to see this. 140 pounds gone. Type 2 diabetes reversed. Blood pressure normalized. Sleep apnea gone. Inflammation gone. Depression and anxiety gone. My body back. My LIFE back. No surgery. No injections. No pills. No trainer. No one carrying me through it. Just me. My daughter. This community. The data. And a decision I made and kept making every single day for 365 days. This post is not about weight loss. It is about a woman who was dying slowly and didn’t fully realize it. It is about what happens when you stop managing symptoms and start healing the actual cause. It is about what your body is capable of when you stop poisoning it and start feeding it what it was designed to run on. I wrote a book about everything I learned this year because I needed it to exist. I needed there to be something someone could pick up when they were exactly where I was a year ago, exhausted and sick and out of options, and see a way through. I am not the woman I was 365 days ago. I don’t recognize her anymore. I love her for surviving. But I don’t miss her. If you are sitting there right now thinking it is too late, or you have too much to lose, or your body is too broken, or you have tried everything… I was you. This changed my life. It saved my life. And it can save yours too. 🥩365 days. Just getting started.

365 days ago I made a decision that saved my life. Not a diet. Not another fresh start that fizzled out by February. A decision to stop doing what was killing me and start doing what my body was actually built for. Today is my one year carniversary. And I need you to see this. 140 pounds gone. Type 2 diabetes reversed. Blood pressure normalized. Sleep apnea gone. Inflammation gone. Depression and anxiety gone. My body back. My LIFE back. No surgery. No injections. No pills. No trainer. No one carrying me through it. Just me. My daughter. This community. The data. And a decision I made and kept making every single day for 365 days. This post is not about weight loss. It is about a woman who was dying slowly and didn’t fully realize it. It is about what happens when you stop managing symptoms and start healing the actual cause. It is about what your body is capable of when you stop poisoning it and start feeding it what it was designed to run on. I wrote a book about everything I learned this year because I needed it to exist. I needed there to be something someone could pick up when they were exactly where I was a year ago, exhausted and sick and out of options, and see a way through. I am not the woman I was 365 days ago. I don’t recognize her anymore. I love her for surviving. But I don’t miss her. If you are sitting there right now thinking it is too late, or you have too much to lose, or your body is too broken, or you have tried everything… I was you. This changed my life. It saved my life. And it can save yours too. 🥩365 days. Just getting started.

Queen of Carni

92,139 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

ONE OF CLAUDE'S DEVELOPERS MESSAGED ME "YOU'RE USING AI AT 5%. LET ME SHOW YOU HOW WE ACTUALLY WORK WITH IT" we talked for 40 minutes. he shared his screen and showed me his obsidian. i expected some complex setup with code it was a folder. a regular folder with text files but when he opened the graph - i went silent. thousands of dots. thousands of lines. everything connected. everything alive. he says "this is my brain after 4 months. i didn't link a single note manually. claude did all of it" then he showed me something i still haven't recovered from he typed to claude "where am i contradicting myself?" claude thought for about 10 seconds and returned 4 pairs of notes where he wrote one thing and did another. with dates. quoting his own words back at him he laughed and said "see? no friend will ever tell you this. but this thing will and it won't get offended" i asked him to help me set it up. he walked me through it. took two evenings now my vault is on the video. it's still small. but it already knows my projects, my goals, my weak spots. and every morning it writes me a short brief: what changed, where i'm stuck, what i forgot the scariest part - i can't imagine working without it anymore. and just a month ago i thought this was too complicated for me i was wrong full guide on how to build this from scratch - article attached i test things like this on myself and share the results. follow kai if you want to see what's next

ONE OF CLAUDE'S DEVELOPERS MESSAGED ME "YOU'RE USING AI AT 5%. LET ME SHOW YOU HOW WE ACTUALLY WORK WITH IT" we talked for 40 minutes. he shared his screen and showed me his obsidian. i expected some complex setup with code it was a folder. a regular folder with text files but when he opened the graph - i went silent. thousands of dots. thousands of lines. everything connected. everything alive. he says "this is my brain after 4 months. i didn't link a single note manually. claude did all of it" then he showed me something i still haven't recovered from he typed to claude "where am i contradicting myself?" claude thought for about 10 seconds and returned 4 pairs of notes where he wrote one thing and did another. with dates. quoting his own words back at him he laughed and said "see? no friend will ever tell you this. but this thing will and it won't get offended" i asked him to help me set it up. he walked me through it. took two evenings now my vault is on the video. it's still small. but it already knows my projects, my goals, my weak spots. and every morning it writes me a short brief: what changed, where i'm stuck, what i forgot the scariest part - i can't imagine working without it anymore. and just a month ago i thought this was too complicated for me i was wrong full guide on how to build this from scratch - article attached i test things like this on myself and share the results. follow kai if you want to see what's next

kai

50,945 Aufrufe • vor 27 Tagen

A Stanford 26-year-old spent 2 years turning 11,400 Obsidian notes into a neural net that finishes his sentences. It started as a folder called “misc” with 43 PDF in it. Most vaults die around 300 notes, because nothing connects and nothing comes back roughly 90% of what you save gets read once, on the day you save it. He fixed it by treating retrieval as the product and storage as the leftovers. Phase 1: Atomize (months 1-3) One idea per note, 200 words max, title written as a claim instead of a topic. “Attention is a filter, not a spotlight” beats “Notes on attention.” He rewrote 1,200 old notes this way and the vault shrank from 2,800 files to 1,600 usable ones. Phase 2: Embed locally (months 4-8) Ollama running nomic-embed-text on a Mac Mini M4, every note chunked at 512 tokens with 64-token overlap, all of it dumped into a local ChromaDB. 11,400 notes became 38,000 vectors and 1.2 GB on disk. Query time 0.4 seconds, cost $0 a month, nothing leaving the machine. Phase 3: Kill the hallucinations (months 9-14) Plain cosine search returned garbage about 30% of the time, so he bolted on a re-ranker and one hard rule: every retrieved chunk carries its source note title into the answer, and no citation means no answer. Wrong recalls fell from 1 in 4 to 1 in 30. Phase 4: Make it speak first (months 15-24) A nightly job reads the day’s writing, pulls the 5 oldest notes with the highest similarity, and drops 3 questions into tomorrow’s daily note. He stopped searching the vault somewhere in month 17 now it opens the conversation before he does. Before: 2,800 notes, 0 reused, 6 weeks per paper draft. After: 11,400 notes, 60-70 surfaced every week unasked, 9 days per draft. The whole stack is 4 pieces Obsidian, Ollama, ChromaDB, and a 40-line Python script that runs at 2 AM. Total software spend across 24 months: $0. Most people build a second brain to store things they will never open again. He stopped writing to remember. He writes so the machine can remind him.

A Stanford 26-year-old spent 2 years turning 11,400 Obsidian notes into a neural net that finishes his sentences. It started as a folder called “misc” with 43 PDF in it. Most vaults die around 300 notes, because nothing connects and nothing comes back roughly 90% of what you save gets read once, on the day you save it. He fixed it by treating retrieval as the product and storage as the leftovers. Phase 1: Atomize (months 1-3) One idea per note, 200 words max, title written as a claim instead of a topic. “Attention is a filter, not a spotlight” beats “Notes on attention.” He rewrote 1,200 old notes this way and the vault shrank from 2,800 files to 1,600 usable ones. Phase 2: Embed locally (months 4-8) Ollama running nomic-embed-text on a Mac Mini M4, every note chunked at 512 tokens with 64-token overlap, all of it dumped into a local ChromaDB. 11,400 notes became 38,000 vectors and 1.2 GB on disk. Query time 0.4 seconds, cost $0 a month, nothing leaving the machine. Phase 3: Kill the hallucinations (months 9-14) Plain cosine search returned garbage about 30% of the time, so he bolted on a re-ranker and one hard rule: every retrieved chunk carries its source note title into the answer, and no citation means no answer. Wrong recalls fell from 1 in 4 to 1 in 30. Phase 4: Make it speak first (months 15-24) A nightly job reads the day’s writing, pulls the 5 oldest notes with the highest similarity, and drops 3 questions into tomorrow’s daily note. He stopped searching the vault somewhere in month 17 now it opens the conversation before he does. Before: 2,800 notes, 0 reused, 6 weeks per paper draft. After: 11,400 notes, 60-70 surfaced every week unasked, 9 days per draft. The whole stack is 4 pieces Obsidian, Ollama, ChromaDB, and a 40-line Python script that runs at 2 AM. Total software spend across 24 months: $0. Most people build a second brain to store things they will never open again. He stopped writing to remember. He writes so the machine can remind him.

West Lord

170,060 Aufrufe • vor 17 Tagen

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

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

West Lord

68,938 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat