YT YouTube2Text

YouTube2Text → Transcripts → How To Build The ULTIMATE AI Second Brain (Obsidian + Claude Code)

How To Build The ULTIMATE AI Second Brain (Obsidian + Claude Code) — Transcript

by KJ Rainey · 12,545 words · 1,742 segments · language it · Watch on YouTube

Open in transcriber Summarize with AI Download SRT/VTT

Full transcript

0:00This AI second brain will help you get
0:02more work done than you ever thought
0:04possible. And I want to show you how to
0:05set it up in the next 5 minutes. And
0:07then we can dive deep. I'll show you
0:09every single tip I found to help you
0:11unlock its maximum power. [music] And
0:13that gum it is it powerful. Because
0:15here's what it helped me do in the last
0:1745 days alone. Including building a sick
0:20web app that I launched yesterday and
0:22has real paying users. All without any
0:24prior software experience. It is insane.
0:27You see by taking the agentic [music] AI
0:28power of Claude and then combining it
0:31with the storage structure and
0:32note-taking power of Obsidian, [music]
0:34you essentially unlock a 200 IQ employee
0:37who knows exactly what you need done,
0:39can help you do it, and then can do it
0:41while you sleep. And the reason my AI
0:42second brain works so well is because
0:44it's a two-layered system. So the first
0:47layer is all about AI helping [music]
0:49you think. The AI brain is trained to be
0:51the general of an army. So it helps you
0:53strategize, it helps you plan your
0:55goals, it helps you see where you want
0:56to go and figure out what is the plan to
0:58actually [music] get there. And the
1:00second layer is full of AI soldiers. And
1:03so they're programmed specifically
1:04[music] to help you with each task that
1:06you've already decided you need to do to
1:09hit your goals, which gives you
1:10essentially an AI digital army at your
1:12command, which sounds insane, but if
1:14you'll just watch along, I'll try to
1:16prove to you its power. So let's go set
1:17this up for yourself. So let's talk
1:19about how this works so that you can use
1:21this to the best of your ability. And
1:23the first layer of this two-layered
1:24system is all about strategy and
1:27storage. It's simply to answer the
1:29question, what do we do? So you have
1:32these goals, these dreams, these
1:33ambitions, but you don't really know
1:35what you have to do to get there.
1:36[music]
1:37That's what this layer solves. And we
1:39have Claude in this layer as a thinking
1:42partner. So you can see my little
1:43Einstein Claude representation here. But
1:46normally, Claude isn't very good as a
1:48thinking partner because he doesn't have
1:50context about you. He doesn't have your
1:53notes, your goals, your journals, like
1:55what's going on in your life. And this
1:57layer solves that problem. So his entire
2:00role, like I said, is a thinking
2:01partner. You and Claude are acting as
2:04the general of an army.
2:07>> [music]
2:07>> So just like it's hard for a general to
2:08command an army when they're on the
2:10front line, the same thing is true of
2:12you and Claude.
2:14In this layer, you're not trying to do a
2:15bunch of stuff. You're trying to figure
2:17out what are the right things you should
2:19do in the next layer. And that's the
2:21secret. And we do that by you and him
2:23sharing context. So your notes on your
2:26books, videos, courses, etc., your
2:28journals, your calendar, your long-term
2:31goals, your reviews, so like are you
2:33actually making progress towards those
2:34goals? And then ultimately, your
2:36projects, which is that next layer. And
2:39so how does Claude actually act as a
2:41thinking partner? Well, Claude has given
2:43us these cool things called Claude.md.
2:46It sounds complicated and crazy, but
2:48it's simply just instructions for Claude
2:51in a folder. So every folder that you
2:53open up that you're going to work on
2:55with Claude, if you type out a Claude.md
2:58file, you can tell him what his
3:00instructions are in that folder. If you
3:02want a full guide on this and just how
3:03to use Claude for the first time, I made
3:05a full co-work masterclass which
3:07includes all this stuff. So check that
3:09out in the top right-hand corner if
3:11you're brand new. But like I said, it's
3:13very simple, it's just instructions. And
3:15so in this folder, um you'll see with my
3:18setup, it'll actually do this for you.
3:20But I just want to explain kind of
3:21what's actually there. It's just so
3:23Claude knows who you are, what you're
3:25trying to do, what his rules are, and
3:28your strength and weaknesses, and kind
3:29of your goals. And so that's what his
3:30instructions are in here. He knows that
3:33he's a thinking partner. He's not
3:34supposed to be doing, he's supposed to
3:36be helping decide what to do. [music]
3:38And also, we can give Claude some skills
3:40and commands. As the two skills that
3:42I've given Claude after you set it up is
3:45just new project. And so he interviews
3:47you to help you make new projects, so
3:49those new second layers. And then also
3:51we have weekly update. So he he'll
3:53interview you and he'll update
3:55everything across the brain that has to
3:57be updated. That way he always has fresh
3:59and recent context. [music]
4:01Now, what's the point of this? Like
4:03what's the value in having this layer?
4:06Here it [music] is. It's because you get
4:08clear goals. You have a clear plan to
4:10actually hit those goals, which means
4:12your thinking is clean, clear, and
4:14dangerous. And also as a bonus, you can
4:17easily recall information. So this is
4:19what people normally like base their
4:20whole second brain around, which is
4:23important, but not near as important as
4:25this actual strategy to accomplishing
4:27what you want in life. But you also can
4:29recall information. So because Claude
4:31has access to all of your books, videos,
4:34goals, journals, calendar, you can ask
4:36him questions about anything in your
4:37life and he knows. He can go find it. So
4:40super cool. So let me show you what this
4:42layer actually looks like in Obsidian
4:43and we'll go on to layer two. So this is
4:45what a layer one actually looks like
4:47inside of Obsidian. This is my real
4:49second brain layer one. So as you as you
4:51can see here, I have the Claude.md. So
4:53Claude knows who I am, what his purpose
4:57is, what my purpose is, and how it can
4:58help me in this folder, which is really
5:00cool. Also he has my goals in a file
5:03here. And here we have all that shared
5:05context that I talked about just a
5:07second [music] ago. We have my notes and
5:09so as you can see here, it's got all my
5:11notes from my books, which you can use a
5:13plugin called Readwise to like do this
5:15automatically, or you can just have
5:16Claude read your Kindle notes, which is
5:18cool. [music]
5:19It has course notes, my video notes.
5:21I've got my journals, my chess moves,
5:23which you guys will see later on. It's
5:25basically just my long-term strategy
5:27journal. Claude helping me decide where
5:30should I focus my time? That's the whole
5:32value of this. Then we have my projects.
5:34So you can see this is that second
5:36layer. We'll talk about this in a
5:37second. But he has access to all of it.
5:39So he can see across all my projects,
5:42and that's where some of the value comes
5:43in. He's not just boxed into one, he can
5:46see across all of them. He's the general
5:48of my army.
5:49Then we have reviews, which you guys
5:51will have weekly, um monthly, quarterly,
5:54and yearly, but I just had a template
5:55for now. I don't really do reviews that
5:56much. Then we have skills. These are the
5:58skills that you set up that Claude can
6:00use in this first layer. So like I said,
6:01this is just an overview, we'll go into
6:03depth later. Also we have Claude inside
6:06of this first layer. So I can ask him
6:08stuff about literally anything, um which
6:10we'll show you guys examples in a bit,
6:11but this is cool. You also know how to
6:13set this plugin. Let's go look at the
6:14second layer. So welcome to layer two.
6:17This is the project layer. So in the
6:19first layer, we answer the question,
6:21what do you do?
6:22>> [music]
6:22>> In this layer, we answer, how do we do
6:24it? And then we go do it. So this is
6:27where the value actually comes into your
6:29life. You actually start solving
6:30problems. And so the way that these this
6:32layer works is you open up Claude and
6:35Obsidian inside of a specific project
6:38folder. So inside of your meta layer,
6:40which houses everything, you have all
6:42your projects. Here you open up just the
6:44project. And in here, Claude has a very
6:47specific task. He is supposed to be your
6:49digital employee. And so the
6:52instructions for Claude are a little bit
6:54different. In here, we want him to know
6:56what is the project, what is the goal,
6:58what is his role in helping us hit that
7:00goal, and basically like what's what's
7:03entailed in actually doing this system.
7:06And I'll give you guys tons of examples.
7:07Um and this will set it up for you it'll
7:09like the my plugin will set this up for
7:11you itself. So you don't have to really
7:12know, but I just want to show you kind
7:14of what's involved. And also in this
7:16project, Claude has specific skills and
7:18commands just for this project, which is
7:21so cool. And so every project is very
7:24simple. It's just the outputs that you
7:27want. And so like what are you actually
7:29trying to achieve? For example, this
7:31YouTube video is an output in my main
7:33channel system, which I'll show you guys
7:35in detail later.
7:37The inputs would be my ideas for the
7:38videos. The process folder would be how
7:41Claude helps me do the research, come up
7:43with the title, the thumbnail, the
7:45actual content of the video, and the
7:47feedback would be the metrics of the
7:49video, your guys's comments, and my own
7:51thoughts. And so Claude in this folder
7:53just helps me make YouTube videos. He's
7:55not worried about all that other stuff,
7:57and that's where the value comes into
7:58play. And then obviously, you have
8:01multiple different projects for all that
8:02you want to accomplish in your life. And
8:05Claude has different skills and commands
8:08for each project. So like I said, don't
8:10get overwhelmed. I'm going to show you
8:11guys all this live. I just wanted to
8:13give you this. If you need help, come
8:14back and watch this over and over again.
8:17I promise, it is worth it and it's free.
8:20So yeah, let's actually take a look real
8:21quick at what is Obsidian. So if you
8:24don't know what Obsidian is,
8:26it's very simple. It's just a way to
8:28view folders and files. That's it.
8:31It's nothing crazy. As you can see on
8:33the left-hand side, this is the Mac
8:35finder. So this is Mac's natural way to
8:38view files. Here's Obsidian. In that
8:40same folder. It's the same exact folder,
8:43but Obsidian just gives you the option
8:44to have plugins, to have Claude inside
8:47of Obsidian, to actually be able to view
8:49the files and edit them while you're
8:51still seeing the folder on the left. So
8:53that's all it is. It's nothing scary.
8:54It's just a
8:56folder viewer on steroids where you can
8:58customize it, make it look whatever you
8:59want. It's it's really cool. And if you
9:02ever wonder like, what about VS Code or
9:04what about Anti-Gravity? These are all
9:07pretty much the same things. So VS Code
9:09is kind of like Obsidian, but for
9:11coders. So it has plugins and it's set
9:14up more for editing code, whereas
9:16Obsidian is more for editing like
9:18knowledge work, you know, writing and
9:20notes and stuff like that.
9:22But you can do the same thing across all
9:24of them. They're just different ways to
9:25view files and folders. So yeah, no need
9:28to get too far in the weeds there, but
9:29this is the same folder literally opened
9:31up in each individual plugin or each
9:34individual app. So the same thing, it's
9:36just different ways to view the files.
9:38Okay, so here's what the second layer
9:40looks like inside of of Obsidian, what
9:42we just went over. So if you look in
9:43your meta layer, you have projects. Now,
9:46the second layer is when we open up
9:48Obsidian in one of these projects
9:50specifically. So I'm going to go down
9:52here. I'm going to click this. I'm going
9:54to go to manage vaults. I'm going to
9:56open folder as a vault. And so if I do
9:58this, here is my actual KJOS folder.
10:02I go to projects and then I can open up
10:04any of these projects as their own
10:06vault. So I'm going to open up my main
10:07channel
10:08and I'll pull it up right here. So here
10:10is my main channel project. And so this
10:12is layer two. I'm now working
10:15specifically on making YouTube videos.
10:17And Claude knows this because of his
10:19Claude.md. Like I said, I'll show you
10:21guys how to set up all of this almost
10:22automatically, but I just want to kind
10:23of give you an overview. So in here he
10:25has his own skills, he has his own
10:27narration logs, he has his own like um
10:30process. Like he just keeps it super
10:32super clean. And I have Claude right
10:35here on the side. And so I can create a
10:36new chat and I can ask him to you know
10:38summarize this idea, to run skills, to
10:41literally help me do everything I do
10:43with content. And that's why it's so
10:45dang powerful. All right, let's go over
10:47how to set this bad boy up for yourself
10:49as quick and painless as possible. First
10:52thing I want you to do is come over here
10:53to Claude.com and you're going to
10:55download the Claude desktop app. Um if
10:58you want a full guide on this, it's in
10:59my Cohort Masterclass. I go over all the
11:01settings, all that good stuff, but I'll
11:02leave it out this time. Go check that
11:04out in top right corner. But all you're
11:05going to do is you're going to download
11:06this app for Mac, Windows, wherever you
11:08want it. Next you're going to download
11:10Obsidian. So come to the second link in
11:12the description or whatever link it is.
11:13Download Obsidian for whatever platform
11:15you have. And now all we're going to do
11:17is we're going to come over to my free
11:19school, completely free, no strings
11:21attached. This is just the safest way
11:22for you guys to get this stuff. Come to
11:24classroom, go to start here,
11:27go to YouTube resources. You're going to
11:29download the KJOS template. You're just
11:31going to click on it. You're going to
11:32click download or you can click this in
11:34the top right corner and you will safely
11:36get my exact template folder. It's all
11:39it is, just a folder. And so once you've
11:41got that, we will actually drag this to
11:44the desktop here in zero seconds. There
11:47we go.
11:48Now I'm going to extract here. So I'm
11:51going to open this with um the
11:53unarchiver. That's what I use. There we
11:55go. KJ template one. Now all I want you
11:59to do is to rename this to whatever
12:01you're going to call your second brain.
12:02So we'll just say KJ's AI brain. There
12:06we go.
12:07And now we need a couple more things.
12:09This is going to sound a little
12:10complicated, but I promise it's really
12:12not that bad. I have no coding
12:13experience. It It just looks a little
12:15weird for those of us who haven't done
12:17this before. What we want is we want to
12:19install Claude code into our terminal so
12:22that we can put it inside of our
12:23Obsidian. So all you're going to do is
12:25you're going to figure out you know
12:26which software system you have or
12:28operating system. You're going to copy
12:31whichever command is yours. So I'm going
12:32to copy it here. And then I'm going to
12:35open up the terminal. So the terminal
12:36looks scary, but I promise it's really
12:38not that bad. And I'm just going to
12:40paste what that told me right here. And
12:44then you're probably going to have to
12:45wait a second for it to actually
12:46download and then I'll come back when
12:47it's actually done. All right, so it's
12:49saying Claude code is successfully
12:51installed. If you want to check this,
12:53you can just type in Claude and hit
12:55enter and it's going to ask you if you
12:58trust it and I do. So I'm going to run
13:00and there we go. Now I have Claude
13:01inside of my terminal. You can do all
13:03the same functionality as the actual
13:05app. It just looks a little bit
13:07different. It's more for coders. But
13:09I'll show you how we're going to use it
13:10to empower us as just normal workers.
13:14Now what I want you to do is we can
13:15minimize this for a second. I want you
13:17to run Obsidian.
13:19Now what I want you to do is open folder
13:20as a vault. Like I said, Obsidian is
13:22just a cool way to view folders. It's
13:25that simple, but it's really powerful
13:26because of just how cool it is. We're
13:29going to click open
13:31and I'm going to choose this brand new
13:33folder that we titled from the template.
13:35So KJ's AI brain. I'm going to open that
13:38up. I'm going to hit trust.
13:40This just gives you all of my plugins
13:41automatically and the setup that I like
13:43to run with.
13:45And now we have the actual second brain
13:48right here. And I've given you guys a
13:50few things. I've given you guys a setup
13:51guide in case you want to just um follow
13:54along in written steps or if you get
13:56lost somewhere and you want to just you
13:57know see the actual guide, I've given
13:59you all of that here. So pretty cool.
14:03Now you've got everything in here, but
14:05as you can see there's nothing in the
14:07Claude.md. So your instructions haven't
14:10been written. And that's because the
14:12only way this brain is powerful is if
14:13it's specific to you.
14:15My personalized brain won't help you
14:18that much. My structure will, but now we
14:20have to personalize it to you. So how
14:22we're going to do that is we have to get
14:24Claude in our Obsidian. Now this is
14:27completely optional. You can just run
14:29the Claude app and you can select the
14:32KJ's AI brain as your project. If you
14:35want to learn how to do that, I have a
14:36whole Cohort Masterclass. All you do
14:38there is you just open up the brain in
14:40the app. And then you can use Obsidian
14:42and look on your other monitor and use
14:43Claude, but this has really transformed
14:45my workflow by getting Claude in the
14:48actual Obsidian. And so now I don't have
14:50to open a bunch of Claudes and get them
14:51confused. I just open up the projects
14:53that I'm running and Claude is right
14:55there in each one. So let's go over how
14:57to do that. Now once again, I This is
14:59going to sound a little bit scary. I
15:00promise it's not that bad. So all we do
15:03is we come back up and there should be a
15:04link in the description for this
15:06Claudian plugin. So all you're going to
15:08do is you're going to copy that link to
15:10the GitHub, which is basically just like
15:12a way for people to download folders.
15:15Then you're going to open up the
15:16terminal again.
15:17And so if you closed it out, type
15:19Claude, get him back up and we're going
15:21to say
15:22um let's see.
15:24Hey Claude, I want to install this
15:26Obsidian plugin. Can you check this repo
15:29and make sure that it's clean of any
15:31kind of um
15:32bad stuff? And then if it is clean,
15:35let's install it.
15:37So this repo at the time of me recording
15:39this is completely clean and um it works
15:42great for me. Like I use it for all my
15:43stuff.
15:44But it could be compromised in the
15:46future. So just to be safe, I would
15:48always ask it to like, hey, is this
15:50clean? And so I'm going to do that. I'm
15:52going to pull back up this link and I'm
15:54going to copy it again.
15:56We're going to come back to Claude.
15:58We're going to paste it. Now we're going
16:00to let him do his thing.
16:01So the first thing he should do is
16:03actually go through and make sure
16:04there's nothing bad inside of it. So
16:06he'll do that now.
16:08And then he will ask for permission to
16:09basically go and install all the
16:11different things. So let's go ahead and
16:13do that. Also Claude will ask you a
16:15bunch of questions if it can proceed. So
16:18just like glance over it, make sure it's
16:19not doing anything crazy and just say
16:21yes. Okay, so Claude has just reviewed
16:23the plugin and it has no issues found.
16:26So pretty cool there. And so let's
16:29install it. I'm just going to say yes.
16:32Okay, so I have multiple vaults and I'm
16:33going to tell it which one to install it
16:36in. So I'm going to say KJ's AI brain
16:40please.
16:41And so that's what you want to do. You
16:42want to just tell it whichever Whatever
16:44you named your folder, you want to tell
16:45it install it there. Okay, successful.
16:48Claudian is now installed. It installed
16:50all the things that it needed. It's also
16:52giving us the steps to actually set this
16:53up in Obsidian, which I'll show you guys
16:55in a second. Now we're going to minimize
16:57that in case we need it later. Let's
16:59come back to our Obsidian
17:01and let's get this thing underway. So
17:03the first thing I'm going to do is I'm
17:05actually going to um restart Obsidian
17:08just to make sure that the plugin is all
17:09good to go. So I'll open it back up. Now
17:11we want to get Claudian on this right
17:13hand side. And as you can see, he's
17:15already here, which is dope. But in case
17:17he's not, what I want you guys to do is
17:19to come over here to um
17:21community plugins. You want to hit
17:23refresh until you see Claudian. Then you
17:26want to enable it and then go to
17:27settings and you can change all kind of
17:30settings. I want you guys to take a
17:31second and go through here. So I'm going
17:32to tell him to call me KJ.
17:35Um yeah, you can just personalize this
17:36to whatever you want. Most of it I don't
17:38touch. I'll be completely honest. But
17:40yeah, now I'm going to see if he's
17:42actually here and live. So say, yo,
17:44what's going on?
17:46Um let's see. Nice. And so if this
17:48doesn't work for you, just screenshot
17:50whatever error you're getting, um put
17:52that into a Claude chat in the app and
17:54just ask it to help you. Mainly you'll
17:57probably just have to restart Obsidian
17:58or but you guys can figure it out with
17:59Claude. That's the whole power of AI.
18:01Just use it to help you.
18:02And over here you can see this is to
18:05start a new conversation and so it'll
18:07clean that chat. This is to open up
18:10another tab. So now I have two
18:12conversations and you can open up You
18:13can change how many of these you can
18:14allow at a time, but you shouldn't need
18:16more than three, guys. I mean this is
18:18already crazy to be able to do this. And
18:20so I'm going to right click and close
18:21those. This just already attaches
18:24whatever you're working in to Claude.
18:26You can just exit that out and it
18:28doesn't really matter either way. So
18:29let's see if this is working. If we come
18:31down here, you can change which model
18:33you're using. I'm going to go for Opus,
18:35but if you guys only have the $20 plan,
18:38probably go with Sonnet. I'm going to
18:40change the effort to medium cuz it's not
18:41that big of a deal. And the last setting
18:43is this Yolo mode. So Yolo mode
18:46basically means that it bypasses all
18:48permissions.
18:49It won't ask before touching things. If
18:51you want it to ask, just leave it on
18:53safe mode. I honestly trust it, so I'm
18:56going for Yolo.
18:57So all you have to do now, and this is
18:59inside of the setup guide if you guys
19:00want to to know,
19:02is to say run the brain setup skill in
19:05the 05 skills folder. So I'm just going
19:07to like you know copy this cuz I'm lazy
19:09and we will do that.
19:11Cool. So it found the skill inside of
19:13this folder
19:14and it's going to set it up for us. If
19:16you guys are wondering how are these
19:18skills different from the actual
19:20downloaded Claude skills, and they're
19:22pretty much the same thing. I just
19:24prefer to have my skills
19:27as just markdown files inside of my
19:30projects. That way my team can run the
19:33same skills without having to download
19:34them. I don't get all of them confused
19:36or on which Claude is where. I just keep
19:38them all right here. And so if you
19:40actually it's cool too because you can
19:42edit the skills just way easier. And so
19:44it's the same exact thing as actually
19:45making a skill. You just tell it where
19:47to go to run it.
19:49Okay, so during the setup, as you can
19:51see, Claude is now asking me questions
19:54and it's going to set up everything for
19:56me. So this will take probably 5 minutes
19:57or so. What I'm going to do is I'm going
19:59to go through and answer all these
20:00questions and then I'll scroll through,
20:02I'll talk about it, and we'll see what
20:04Claude actually sets up. All right, so I
20:05answered the first question and it's
20:07kind of summarizing what it captured.
20:09And now let's go for round two. What do
20:11you want Claude to do? So in this one,
20:14um keep it kind of simple. Just tell him
20:16that he's there to help you think. But
20:18you can kind of answer these however you
20:19want. And so let me do that real quick.
20:21Okay, so I shot Claude off the answer to
20:23round two. Also, if you guys want to
20:25know what voice to speech tool I use,
20:27it's called Super Whisper. Um I'll
20:29probably put a link in the description.
20:30I'm not like sponsored anything, but
20:32it's like five bucks a month. There's
20:33even a free version, but I just use the
20:35$5 one.
20:36All right, so um round three,
20:39boundaries. How should Claude
20:40communicate with you? I'm going to be
20:41blunt and direct. Round three, uh okay,
20:44any kind of add-on. So here I like to
20:46keep it simple. I would just say
20:49um
20:50any file that you create, tag it with
20:52that parentheses C, and don't edit any
20:55of my writings or notes without asking
20:58first, please. Okay, round four,
21:00strength and weaknesses. I'm going to
21:01keep this kind of simple here.
21:03I am pretty good at at building things,
21:06solving problems, and making content
21:08about it. But sometimes I get caught up
21:10in trying to perfect stuff when I need
21:12to just put it out and get something out
21:14there that's actually going to help
21:15people.
21:16Um also, I want you to just try to poke
21:18holes in my thinking and make sure that
21:19I'm um I'm thinking on the right track.
21:21Sometimes I'm a little bit too
21:23optimistic. Um so sue me.
21:26>> [laughter]
21:27>> All right. Uh it's way better to be a
21:29wrong optimist than a right pessimist.
21:31I'll say that though, guys. I can attest
21:33to that. Okay, so round five, goals and
21:35current progress. Okay, here you just
21:36want to talk about your goals. I'm just
21:38going to keep this super simple because
21:39my other one's more in-depth, but
21:41um I want to basically make amazing
21:44content that helps people and then build
21:46a software that helps them even more. So
21:48my content leads them to my incredible
21:50software where they can get a free
21:51trial, fall in love with it, and then um
21:54pay for the service. All right, so I
21:55would normally go much more in-depth,
21:56but once again, I don't want to make
21:57this a 40-minute video um just for you
21:59guys hearing my life story. Give me some
22:01more numbers and titles. So it's already
22:02being blunt and direct. I'll talk about
22:04how
22:05uh I can fill this in later.
22:08So for the sake of the video. Okay, so
22:10round six, current projects. We don't
22:11have any projects yet and you won't
22:13either if you're just now setting this
22:14up. So you can just say
22:17I will set them up here in a little bit.
22:20So do that and then we'll actually go
22:22into setting up the projects. That's a
22:23whole different skill. So pretty cool.
22:25Now what Claude is doing is he is
22:27generating that Claude.md for you. So if
22:30you look over here to the Claude, it's
22:32not filled in yet, but you can see him
22:35going through and filling in all those
22:37sections that we talked about in the
22:39video where we went over how this stuff
22:41works. So I'm just going to say dope.
22:44Let's do it.
22:45I don't know if he understands what dope
22:46means. I guess he does. Look at that.
22:48Boom. The power of AI. So now your
22:51Claude is filled in, you're ready to go,
22:53and it's time to actually set up our
22:56first project. So what I want to
22:58encourage you guys to do is take a
23:00section uh take some time and fill in
23:02the goals on your own. So I left this
23:04empty on purpose. I want you to just be
23:07honest with Claude and uh and give him
23:09what where you're trying to go, what
23:11you're trying to do. Because what I
23:12don't want you to do is to let the robot
23:15decide your fate. That's not what AI is
23:17for. AI is to help us achieve what God
23:20has already put on our hearts. The
23:21vision God has given you, the the
23:23passions,
23:24start there on your own outside of
23:26Claude. Give that to him and let him
23:28help you achieve it, but don't let him
23:30determine your destiny, okay? Um at
23:32least that's what I suggest in my
23:34personal opinion. Okay, so the next
23:36thing we're going to do is let's
23:37actually run a new project skill. So
23:39we're going to do is we're going to come
23:40back to Claude and I'm going to say
23:42All right, Claude, let's run the new
23:44project skill. Let's set up my first
23:46project. Dope, he is reading the skill
23:48and now he's going to ask us some
23:50questions. So I'm going to say app or I
23:52I'm just going to call it finances.
23:55Okay, now he's asking me what is this
23:57project? I want to set up a simple
23:59system where I can give you all of my
24:02bank statements and then we can
24:05basically submit a financial report for
24:07myself to see where I'm spending money,
24:09how I can save money, and uh just what
24:12happened financially that that past
24:14month. All right, cool. He says what
24:16does ship look like?
24:18So I would love to have a system where I
24:19can drop in all of my statements and
24:22reports. We also spend some time
24:24figuring out what is a good budget for
24:26me every month based on like where I'm
24:28at in my life. And then we can get a
24:29report back of what I did well that
24:32month and what I need to work on next
24:34month. And I want to be able to see it
24:35in a way that's that's super clean.
24:38Who else is involved? I'm going to say
24:39no one. What's the process? Um
24:42I think I should be able to get my own
24:45bank statements, drop the PDFs in a
24:48folder for you.
24:49Then you process them based on a
24:52predetermined kind of budget that we set
24:54up beforehand. So the first things we'll
24:56probably have to do is actually set up
24:58that budget and research what would be
24:59good for me in my stage of life. And
25:02then you give me a a report back and
25:04then we can have another skill or
25:06something that analyzes over the months
25:08like what things I need to work on on a
25:11macro scale.
25:13All right, cool. So that might be a
25:14little bit too complicated to start
25:16with, but uh
25:18we'll let him rock with it.
25:19So set up the budget, drop statements,
25:21process and categorize monthly report,
25:23and then analysis. Dope. Wow, he nailed
25:26that. Um
25:28we can worry about that as we go. Let's
25:30just kind of set up the project for now.
25:32You see how crazy this is, guys? I mean,
25:34you can start solving massive problems
25:36in your life right here just off the
25:39rip, which is insane. So now what
25:41Claude's going to do is he's going to
25:43take this project template that we've
25:45set up and he's going to create this
25:47project right before our eyes. So you
25:49can see he's just created the folder,
25:51finances. Now he's created all of the
25:53folders, everything. So in here you can
25:56see kind of the inputs, the process, and
25:58the outputs. You can see like the
26:00system. So if we need to like write any,
26:02I don't know, lines of code or whatever,
26:04he'll put that in there. If we build any
26:06skills for this project, we'll put it in
26:08the 05 skills. The Claude.md is done.
26:10It's all here. So now he has his role in
26:14this project, which is epic. It's so
26:16sick. And you can update this as you go
26:19along, but uh it's just a way for you
26:21guys to start literally full projects
26:24right there.
26:25And so now that this project is done,
26:28how do we actually go work in it?
26:31I'm going to show you two things. I'm
26:32going to show you how to actually change
26:34the template and I'm going to show you
26:36how to open up in the second layer. So
26:39let's go do that right now. So all you
26:40want to do is click on this thing down
26:43here. So KJ's second brain. Go to manage
26:45vaults. You're going to open folder as a
26:47vault.
26:48So we're going to do that. We're going
26:49to go into our main kind of uh brain
26:52here. So KJ's AI brain.
26:54We're going to go to projects and we're
26:56going to open up that project as its own
26:59file. So what what I'm going to do
27:01first, I'm going to open up the project
27:02template. Um I probably should have
27:03showed you guys this earlier, but this
27:04is pretty simple.
27:06If you want to change the appearance or
27:08how anything works, all you have to do
27:11is open up the project template and
27:12change it in there. So I can change the
27:14colors. Let's say that I want to go for,
27:17I don't know, I want to go for a cool
27:18orange. I can do that. It changes the
27:20buttons. Um you can change the theme.
27:22I'm not going to show you guys how to do
27:23the themes. I it's kind of a waste of
27:25time. I just I just work. But you can
27:28change plugins, change themes, and that
27:29way
27:30if you like a certain setup of plugins,
27:32let's say you want to add the calendar
27:33plugin or daily notes plugin, you can do
27:36that on the template and now every time
27:38you make a new project with the Claude
27:40skill in the first layer, it'll copy
27:42over all that stuff. So you don't have
27:44to waste all that time setting up all
27:45your things. So pretty cool. But now
27:48back on track, we will go to manage
27:50vaults again. We'll open folder as a
27:51vault. We'll choose finances
27:54and we will hit trust
27:56and boom, there we go. And so if we look
27:58at this, now we are working inside that
28:02second layer. So I just showed you how
28:04Claude made all of these things in the
28:06kind of the meta thing. All we did was
28:09open up straight into that finances
28:11project. And now we have Claude who
28:14doesn't know about all of that stuff we
28:16just yapped about. All he cares about is
28:18getting our finances done. Oh, it's so
28:21sick. Like it seems simple in hindsight,
28:24but like this change is everything.
28:26So now Claude only cares
28:29about his role right here. He's a
28:31soldier. He's going to get this job
28:33done. And so you can work with him right
28:35here. Like I said, we can start new
28:36conversations.
28:38Um
28:39it's just awesome, guys. It's just
28:40awesome. And I'll show you guys all of
28:42my like use the things that I actually
28:43do every day in my life with this setup.
28:45But um yeah, this should be the setup. I
28:47don't think I'm missing anything. If I
28:48am, then let me know in the comments.
28:51Also, one of the things that I've
28:52included is every time Claude creates a
28:55skill,
28:56he's supposed to put it inside of this
28:5805 skills folder. You don't have to do
29:00this. You can just put it into your like
29:04entire Claude. So that way no matter
29:05where you're at in the Claude app, on uh
29:08you know, your phone, on in Obsidian and
29:10Claude code, it has the skill
29:12everywhere. But in my experience, I only
29:14want the finance skill in my finance
29:16project. And that's why I did it this
29:18way. But if you do have a skill that you
29:19use across all things, just tell Claude,
29:22"Hey,
29:23install this skill across my like global
29:26Claude." And he'll do that. And if he
29:28does that by accident anyway, just tell
29:30him, "Hey, Claude, don't install this
29:32across in your actual skills. Put it
29:34inside the 05 skills folder." So yeah,
29:37I'll show you guys examples of that here
29:39coming up. But that is the setup. If you
29:40have any questions, let me know. Let's
29:41get into the actual juicy use cases. So
29:44a quick but very powerful bonus tip
29:47before we get into the actual use cases.
29:48I use this a ton. This is how to use
29:51your second brain from your phone
29:53wherever the heck you're at. You have
29:54full access. This is kind of nuts. All
29:57you want to do is download the desktop
29:59app and sign in to Claude. You're going
30:01to click on co-work. Then if you look on
30:03this left-hand side, you will see a
30:05dispatch tab. You're going to click
30:07that. I like to check keep awake, um
30:10give it full computer use, bypass
30:12permissions, all that good stuff. Um and
30:14yeah. Now what we're going to do is you
30:17can this is already working as is but
30:18can be a little bit glitchy. So what I
30:20find to work very well is just telling
30:22it from the start that I want it to use
30:24an existing folder and I give it the
30:26link to that folder. So this is my the
30:28name of your second brain. This is what
30:30I do. And I tell it to set that as your
30:32permanent workspace from here on. So I'm
30:34going to fire that off and hopefully he
30:37should understand that and it'll it'll
30:39ask for access to that folder.
30:42So here we go. I'm going to say allow.
30:45And now we should be good to use our
30:48second brain from anywhere. So let me go
30:50ahead and try this right now with the
30:52video idea.
30:53And I'm on dispatch on my phone. So you
30:55want to go to your phone and you want to
30:57click the dispatch button. And see now
30:58you I can see this exact combo that's
31:00happening on my computer.
31:03And so let's just let's just try this.
31:04Let's say I'm walking on the street and
31:05I have a sick idea. All right, Claude, I
31:07have a video idea that I want you to
31:09save in my um second channel project in
31:13the video ideas folder. And this idea is
31:15basically just teaching people how to
31:16use dispatch to capture insane video
31:20ideas to basically 10x their creativity
31:22because an idea never slips through the
31:24cracks. Okay, cool. So I'm going to
31:25shoot that off for my daily channel.
31:27Shout out to those of you guys who watch
31:28my daily videos about AI.
31:31Now we'll take a look at the computer.
31:32It just shot this from my phone. And so
31:34the idea of this is if you leave your
31:36computer on, you have full access to
31:38your second brain like entirely from
31:40anywhere in the world. So it says on it,
31:42save that idea. So now we're going to
31:44actually check the second brain and see
31:46if it worked. Okay, so if we come into
31:48my second channel folder, we can see in
31:50the video cards in the ideas section, we
31:53now have dispatch capture video as
31:55ideas. It was saved today and it
31:57followed the instructions of how I want
32:00my ideas saved. If you guys wonder how I
32:02upload every day, this is how. Dispatch
32:04is awesome. But I will warn you,
32:06dispatch is pretty freaking glitchy. And
32:08so I would get the whole thing kind of
32:10working on your computer. And once it's
32:12working, you can use that same process
32:14on your phone all the time. But you the
32:16initial setup is a little bit janky.
32:18With that being said, extremely
32:19powerful. You can control your entire
32:21computer and Claude and your second
32:22brain from anywhere in the world on your
32:24phone. So the last bonus tip I want to
32:26give you guys when it comes to setting
32:27the stuff up and leveraging this brain
32:29is how to sync it between your team. So
32:32how to have multiple people in one
32:34second brain and it syncs all the time.
32:36So this is what's called Obsidian Sync.
32:38I think it's like yeah, it's like four
32:39bucks a month. I think every single
32:42person needs to have that. Um yeah, it's
32:44it's cheap. And if you have a team,
32:46obviously that's incredibly worth it. So
32:48once you sign up to that, all you do is
32:50you want to open back up Obsidian.
32:52And so this is my Signal app Obsidian
32:55project. This is what I share between
32:57the team. And so all we want to do is
32:59come over here to settings. You will see
33:02this um core plugin called sync. And so
33:05you want to turn that on. Then you can
33:07go to the settings of sync on the left.
33:09And you will choose a remote vault. So
33:11whenever you purchase the Obsidian Sync,
33:13you'll be able to set up different
33:15vaults. And so I've already created a
33:16new vault called Signal. All I'm going
33:18to do is add my team members right here
33:20by clicking this sharing button and
33:22sending in their emails with their
33:23Obsidian accounts. And then I just
33:25connect every vault to it. So once they
33:27have this, they do the same thing on
33:28their end and they just connect to this
33:30vault they've been invited to. We will
33:32click continue and I'll have to put in
33:34my password.
33:36Which you guys will never know.
33:38>> [clears throat]
33:38>> Then I will hit start syncing and now it
33:41will be synced. But a very important tip
33:43that I want to share with you guys is to
33:45if you want, sync all file types. And so
33:48because we're doing code here, I'm
33:50syncing our entire like app design and
33:53structure with my team. And so I want to
33:55sync over everything possible. The HTML
33:57files, all that good stuff. And so you
33:59can do that here and you can also pick
34:01which folders to exclude from your team
34:03that don't get synced. So very simple
34:05there and you should be good to go. Now
34:07my entire team if if you see down here,
34:09I'll move this over here. You see this
34:11little green check mark. That means it
34:12is fully synced. So everything I've done
34:15has synced across their computers. You
34:17can also add your phones to the synced
34:19um
34:20vaults. It's insane. So that's it for
34:22the setup. Let's actually go look at how
34:23I use all this stuff. And now it's time
34:25for the best part. How I actually use
34:28this second brain structure in my real
34:30life to create businesses, create value,
34:32and make money, and just have the
34:33absolute best time ever. So starting off
34:36with my app. I've worked for the last 2
34:39months on this app and I've used this
34:41structure to build everything you're
34:43about to see. So I'm going to show you
34:44guys this is not just kind of a local
34:46little for fun app. I actually have
34:48paying users on this. It is legit. I've
34:50dreamt of of making this. So I'm going
34:52to show you guys how it works. And uh
34:54yeah, then show you how I made it. So
34:56all you do is log in with this. I'm
34:58probably going to leak my emails. There
35:00we go.
35:01And I'm going to create a brand new
35:03project in Signal. So all this is is
35:05basically YouTube 2.0. I took everything
35:07that I liked about YouTube and I
35:09improved on it and I got rid of
35:10everything I hated. So it's literally
35:12just for hyper learning. It's not for
35:15seeing a bunch of shorts, a bunch of
35:16garbage. Um but I'll just show you guys
35:18how it works. So let's just say we're
35:19going to learn Claude code. So I just
35:22type new project, go in here. Here's
35:23what I'm going to learn. I want to learn
35:24Claude code. This is actually how I
35:26learned how to do the lighting in this
35:27recording. Everything you see in this
35:28video I probably learned through Signal,
35:30which is nuts. And I want to learn
35:32Claude code to automate my business.
35:34Any other goals that I have? Let's see.
35:36What about building websites?
35:40Cool. We'll start there. And I'll hit
35:42continue. Now I'm just going to answer
35:44what do I know? I'm going to say I say I
35:45know the basics. And like I said guys,
35:47everything you're about to see here was
35:48built through this structure, which is
35:50insane. And now Signal's going to go out
35:53and find the videos that match my goals
35:56and bring them to me in a way that's so
35:58much easier than freaking YouTube. And
36:01just like that, I have a brand new batch
36:03of videos so I can go through. So I'm
36:05going to say, you know what? I think I
36:06want to watch this. I think I want to
36:08watch this, this.
36:10And let's check out
36:13um
36:14Let's see. This looks good. Oh, that
36:16looks great. Perfect. I can actually
36:18sort this by um let's go for views, just
36:21the highest views. Okay, dope. We'll add
36:23that Nick Coursen there. Master Claude
36:25code, awesome.
36:27Then I'll go, you know what? I want to
36:28change this a bit. I want to add in
36:30different goals. Maybe I have different
36:32roadblocks. Um I can add in prior
36:34knowledge to make sure that it's finding
36:35the right stuff. I can go to filters and
36:37I'll be like, you know what? I only want
36:38to watch videos that are, you know, 20
36:40to 60 minutes plus.
36:42Views, I want it to be over 100k. And
36:45these need to be recent. And so let's do
36:47in the past month. I'm going to hit
36:48apply and re-refresh. And that's
36:50actually some pretty strict criteria. So
36:52we see if anything actually matches
36:54that. And just like that, it's brought
36:56to us some of these banger videos
36:57matching our criteria. I'll be like, you
36:59know what? I like this one. That looks
37:01cool. Let's do it. Then I will actually,
37:04you know what? Let's get rid of these
37:05filters and I want to try something
37:07else. So let's do apply and refresh. And
37:10now I want to actually search for
37:12something specific. So maybe I have a
37:13project going on but I'm like, you know
37:15what? This isn't necessarily Claude code
37:17but I want to research this one thing
37:19about websites. So then all I'm going to
37:21do is I'm going to type that in for this
37:22specific topic for just a one-off
37:24search. So how to design landing pages.
37:26I'm going to fire that off.
37:28And now I can stay in my Claude code
37:30project, which is here to help me build
37:32websites. But I can do one little
37:33specific search just to find any kind of
37:36good stuff out there that we can add to
37:37our project and then go back to the main
37:39project. So just like that, I've got
37:41perfect landing page design in 5
37:42minutes. That is such a sick video. Uh
37:45Figma, I don't really care about that.
37:46The anatomy of high-converting landing
37:48page, dope. The million-dollar landing
37:50page, dope. So now I've added all these
37:52Signal in there. I can just hit X and
37:54I'm right back into my main project. So
37:56crazy. Now how do you actually consume
37:58these videos? You go to your Signal. And
38:00I'm like, you know what? Um this is
38:01pretty cool. I'm going to zoom in a
38:02little bit here.
38:04We can see that
38:05you can it tells you which videos it
38:07thinks are more signal for your goal. So
38:10these contain more value for you versus
38:13these are getting lower and lower and
38:15lower. And then it processes them as you
38:17add them, which is pretty cool. And so
38:19I'm going to sort these. Actually, I'm
38:20just going to leave them sorted by
38:21highest signal. And then I'm going to
38:23play through and uh watch the videos.
38:26And before you even watch the videos,
38:28you can select which parts you want to
38:29skip. So maybe I already know how to do
38:32components or how to fill in a website
38:34or how to do pre-built components. I can
38:36now skip these and it will only play the
38:39ones that I've already selected, which
38:41is awesome. And if you don't have a
38:42video that's all signal, so let's go
38:44back to the project. Let's say we pick
38:46one of these videos. It will go ahead
38:48and tell you which ones you don't think
38:50you want. So design trees, PRDs. I'm
38:53going to skip those and I'm just going
38:54to go, you know what? Boom. Let's watch
38:56the video.
38:58And so it starts it right there. You can
38:59actually type notes in here. So I'm
39:01going to do like notes. And uh yeah, you
39:03can create different tabs in your notes.
39:05I know I'm getting like carried away but
39:06guys, I mean I've dreamt of being able
39:09to build this kind of stuff and now I
39:11can. Only thanks to AI.
39:14Uh so it's it's crazy. Now we also have
39:16controls for the player so you can hit
39:18start. Um you can play it. You can skip
39:19around. You can increase the actual um
39:23time that the video is playing. You can
39:24go up and down. So without leaving the
39:26notes pads, it's incredible. The
39:28summary's down here. You can chat with
39:31uh
39:32a Signal bot, which has actually watched
39:34the video before you. And it will even
39:36give you some questions. You can answer
39:37any questions. You can ask it.
39:39Uh Uh, then you can export your notes.
39:41So, Obsidian, Markdown, Notion.
39:44It's so crazy. Then, whenever you're
39:45done, you just go to the next video. So,
39:47it's cool. And then you can go back to
39:49your projects here.
39:50You can go to your project notes. You
39:52can see all your notes. You can go to
39:54different projects. So, here's the
39:55project that I used to research for this
39:57exact video you're watching. Here's how
39:59I'm learning YouTube lighting.
40:01It's awesome. And you can archive videos
40:03in your signal. And they kind of after
40:05you watch them, they'll be in here later
40:07if you ever want to come back and check
40:08them out again. Incredible. All right.
40:11So, getting back on track, here is the
40:13Signal app project. So, it all starts
40:15with the inputs. So, I have ideas, the
40:17entire ideas for the app and their
40:19features. I just will throw them into
40:22the project, so the development board.
40:24So, me and my co-founder, my developer
40:26with me, we we have a board, which
40:28basically allows us to we have a board a
40:31board plugin, sorry, which allows us to
40:33implement all these changes on a board
40:35in Obsidian. And I use Claude Dispatch
40:37to add ideas if I'm not at my computer.
40:40And then in the process, I will go into
40:42Claude in my Obsidian, and I will have
40:45him give me different designs and
40:47features for me to test. So, every
40:49single thing that you saw on that app,
40:51it was designed me and Claude Code,
40:53which is crazy crazy. I would just ask
40:56him, "You know what? Give me an add
40:57button, or make these cards look a
40:59little bit, I don't know, sexier. Like,
41:01figure it out." And then I would test it
41:03out, and then I would um put the actual
41:05spec to go live on the website in my
41:08Obsidian, which is synced with my
41:10co-founder, my developer.
41:12And then he uses Claude Code multiple
41:14instances of Claude Code to actually
41:15design the spec into the live site,
41:17which you just saw. And that gives us
41:19the output, which is an improved app.
41:22And uh we make money from it, which is
41:24awesome as well. And the feedback for
41:26this system is basically just user
41:28feedback. It's metrics. It's also um
41:32like here's me giving Caden some
41:34feedback from using it myself daily. And
41:36then uh yeah, I'll show you guys what
41:38this looks like inside of Obsidian. But
41:39this is the actual like system and
41:41everything. So, here's the real Signal
41:43app project. So, I have folders for
41:45different parts of the application. So,
41:47for onboarding, finding, watching,
41:49capturing, etc.
41:50I have a folder called app design, where
41:53I've designed all of the features you
41:54see. So, here's the shipped features.
41:56Here's the fonts that I tested out.
41:58Here's all the old stuff. Um
42:00a big queue of changes, so super cool.
42:03Also, we have outputs. This is where I
42:05actually will test the features that I'm
42:07designing. And so, if we look here for
42:09the um add click border test, you will
42:12see this is where I tested out what the
42:15borders looked like. So, I would test it
42:16out on different thumbnails. This was
42:18all done by Claude in this project,
42:20which is insane.
42:22Here's the Claude MD, which basically
42:24just tells it, "Hey, you are helping KJ
42:26and Caden actually think through and
42:28design this app, but you're not going to
42:30code it into the website. Caden's
42:32Claude's going to do that." And so, my
42:33knows that it's only here to help me
42:35design and test the actual code in in
42:39HTML files. So, pretty crazy. Here's the
42:42folder structure, all that good stuff. I
42:44won't show you our development board cuz
42:45we have some secret stuff coming, but
42:47that's where it is. Yeah, let's go on to
42:48the next use case, which is probably a
42:50little bit more applicable to you guys.
42:52All right. So, this is my project for my
42:54email marketing client. And so, every
42:56single month I write these marketing
42:58emails, which gets his list to actually
43:01book sales calls with him and his team.
43:04And uh they pay me very kindly for this.
43:06So, the emails um have been very nice to
43:09them, and they continue paying. So, that
43:10is awesome. Make around 2K a month from
43:13these emails. And I've already made an
43:15entire free course on this in my school,
43:17so I'm not going to go in depth because
43:20I've already done it. But basically, the
43:21way it works is I have a skill, which
43:24gives me email ideas based on my client,
43:28his context, and then also based on his
43:30short-form content, and also on just
43:32news and stuff like this. Um and I've
43:34I've given you guys these skills in the
43:36school, so don't worry. And then once I
43:37have an idea, I'll add my thoughts, and
43:40it will run the you know, valuable
43:42insight email skill or the sales email
43:44skill, and then it will give me a rough
43:47draft. And I'll tell it kind of what the
43:49call to action is. So, where are we
43:51going to take them? What's the goal of
43:52the email?
43:54And then it will actually write it. I
43:55will review it, and also a sub-agent
43:57will review it. And then I make the
43:59finishing touches, and I ship it. So,
44:01like I said, check out the free course
44:03on this, completely free. I go over how
44:05to make the skills, how to do the
44:06ingredients for the skills, all that
44:08stuff, but a little bit too deep for
44:09this video. Okay. So, now I'm moving on
44:11to the main YouTube channel. How I made
44:14the video you're watching right now.
44:16Let's go over how this all works. So, it
44:18starts out with an input. So, I'll have
44:20an idea for a video. So, like I'll build
44:22something cool, and I'll think, "You
44:23know what? I want to show this to my
44:25audience, i.e. the second brain." I will
44:27then either add it to my ideas folder,
44:30or I will use dispatch to add it from my
44:31phone to my folder.
44:33And you see here, we start with the
44:34video ideas. And here I just have a
44:36bunch of random ideas that I'm going to
44:38um flesh out and maybe use.
44:40Then what I'll do is I will use VidIQ
44:43plus AI to validate the idea and
44:46packaging with demand. Basically, I'll
44:49see is there actually people searching
44:51for what I want to make? Is there demand
44:53for it? And then I will use my app to
44:56find, watch, and take notes on every top
44:59competitor's video. And I don't say that
45:01lightly, guys. Uh here's the actual
45:02project from this video that you're
45:04seeing right now. I went through and
45:06watched every video I could possibly
45:08find. There's some in my archive as well
45:10on just second brains. And so, I've I've
45:12deleted a lot of them, but every single
45:14video I went through and watched, which
45:16was crazy, and Signal helped me find
45:18them almost immediately and watch them
45:20super fast. So, yeah, another Signal
45:22plug. And then here's where it gets even
45:23cooler. I then used one of my skills
45:26inside of this project to analyze the
45:29successful packaging, the elements, the
45:32keywords, the titles, everything. So,
45:34here's actually what that skill looks
45:36like. So, first, it gives me all of my
45:38direct competitors. So, these are the
45:40videos on second brains. Then it gives
45:43me some packaging from similar stuff.
45:46So, these might be videos about Obsidian
45:48or Claude individually. So, not direct
45:50competitors to what I'm doing, but they
45:52might have good thumbnail ideas.
45:54Then it gives me the keyword analysis.
45:56So, what are the sweet spot keywords?
45:58What has the lowest competition, but the
46:00highest amount of search traffic? So,
46:02there they go. There's how what I used
46:04for the title.
46:05Um and then it gives me some more
46:06keyword stuff. Then it gives me the best
46:09keywords for the title. And so, what
46:11does well in the title, which is cool.
46:13Then it gives me good title structures.
46:15And then it compares all the thumbnail
46:17elements. So, it tells me, "Here's
46:19what's a good thing to use in the
46:20thumbnail." Then it ranks my
46:23competitors' titles, and then it gives
46:25me fire title ideas. So, if you're
46:27looking at this, I probably used
46:30something very similar to this title. Um
46:32yeah, it's just pretty crazy. This thing
46:34is really good.
46:36And then it just gives me a thumbnail
46:37review checklist. And also, I forgot to
46:39mention, it gives me all the tags for my
46:42videos
46:43um automatically. So, I don't even have
46:45to like write the tags out anymore. I
46:46can just copy and paste it straight into
46:48the YouTube thing. So, pretty crazy.
46:51So, from there, what do I do? Well,
46:53I create the body content with Claude.
46:56So, he's helping me write out these
46:57videos that you're seeing right now.
46:59He's not actually writing them, but I'm
47:01asking him his thoughts, how do I
47:02structure stuff, what sounds good in the
47:04intro, what do I include, what do I not
47:06include.
47:07I made a video about on my second
47:09channel of how I actually do this if you
47:10want to see do it live. So, yeah, pretty
47:13cool. Then my Obsidian is synced with my
47:16editor Caleb. Shout out to you. I love
47:17you, my BFF forever. He uses Claude to
47:20help edit the videos. And so, all the
47:22little like pauses and cuts, he uses AI
47:25to just do that so that he can focus on
47:27the sick intros. So, shout out to Caleb.
47:29And then I upload the video using the
47:31titles, the thumbnails, the elements,
47:32and tags that Claude gave me. And yeah,
47:35it makes for some pretty insane videos.
47:38And just in the like time it took me to
47:40make this Miro, it this video went from
47:43like 68,000 to 83,000 in like a day,
47:46which is
47:47just nuts. And then the feedback from
47:49these videos are the metrics,
47:51um my personal thoughts, the lessons
47:54that I find from Signal. So, I improved
47:55the lighting between last video and this
47:57video using Signal. That's how I learned
47:59all this stuff in like a day.
48:01And now I'll show you guys what that
48:02looks like inside of Obsidian. All
48:04right. So, now you guys are seeing my
48:05main channel Obsidian project. So,
48:08here's my videos ideas. This is the
48:10inputs. Here's the videos in process.
48:12And so, here's the actual AI second
48:14brain video you're watching right now.
48:17Here's where I did the title, the
48:18thumbnails, the intro, um the link to
48:21the Miro, the body content. Here's how I
48:24use Claude to help me write the setup
48:26guide, to help me write the different
48:28layers, to help me um do the research.
48:30So, this HTML is what I showed you guys
48:32earlier. And uh yeah, it's incredible.
48:35And then here's my uploaded bids, so the
48:37core work masterclass. Here's the
48:39iteration log. So, here's what I wanted
48:41to do better from the last video. So,
48:43that's my me my iteration. Um the system
48:46is basically any scripts that um it uses
48:49to like do all these skills. And then
48:51you can see kind of the packaging
48:53research skill right here that it uses.
48:56And uh yeah, Claude knows that he is
48:58there to help me ship more videos. He
49:00knows the folder structure, the skills,
49:02all that good stuff.
49:04And that's kind of that. And then this
49:05is synced with my editor Caleb's
49:07Obsidian. So, he has this exact project
49:09in his second brain, which is insane.
49:11So, yeah, let's move on to the next use
49:12case. And so, here is my KJ daily
49:15YouTube channel. So, in the past like, I
49:17don't know, 30 days or so, been gaining
49:19like 20,000 views, gained a bunch more
49:20subs, and I'm back to making daily
49:23videos, which is epic. So, the way that
49:25this works is a little bit different
49:27from the main channel. These videos are
49:28a lot more like just me documenting my
49:31life and sharing what I'm learning in a
49:33way that helps me improve my speaking,
49:35my ideation, all those things. And so,
49:38this is where I use Dispatch the most.
49:39So, I'll have random ideas and then I
49:41will use Dispatch to add those to my
49:43video ideas folder the way that I want
49:46them added. So, Claude knows that I
49:48don't want no slop. It follows my exact
49:51framework for how it's supposed to
49:53capture them, which I'll show you guys.
49:55Then Claude uses my title skill to
49:57create five titles based on how I title
50:00my videos. So, it does it really well
50:02for me, which is cool.
50:04Then it captures all select the main
50:05essence of the idea and it does, you
50:07know, like where it came from, the date,
50:09all that good stuff.
50:11Then I record them using this streaming
50:14setup that I learned from Claude. So,
50:16Claude helped me set up this camera,
50:17find the software, the lighting, all of
50:20it. Crazy. And then what happens is AI
50:23will actually find me 10 thumbnail
50:25pictures from the video file. So, it
50:28saves the video file into the footage
50:30folder and then it will pull 10 pictures
50:33from every single video I record.
50:35Then all I do is drop in that picture
50:38into Photoshop, change the text, give it
50:40back to Claude, and he uploads all of
50:43it. So, he does the upload, the title,
50:45he has the description, he schedules
50:47them one day apart, and all using the
50:49upload vids skill, which is just sick.
50:52And that's allowed me for the first time
50:54to do like over 40 days straight of
50:56daily videos and I'm not slowing down
50:58anytime soon. And it's growing this
51:00second channel and creating like a an
51:02awesome little community we have on that
51:03second channel. So, pretty pretty cool.
51:05Daily videos. And the feedback from
51:07these are once again learning a lot of
51:09lessons from the Signal app, my personal
51:11thoughts on how to improve.
51:13And the coolest part about this is this
51:16gives me insane iteration on skills that
51:19I wouldn't get to practice as much with
51:21this main channel.
51:23So, I'm able to practice my speaking, my
51:25body language, the lighting, recording,
51:27all these little things over and over
51:29again thanks to this system, thanks to
51:32Claude. And so, Claude knows inside of
51:34this system
51:35it's very simple. He just knows like,
51:36"Hey, you're here to help KJ get daily
51:38videos out. Here's how you title the
51:40videos. Here's how you save the things
51:42from Dispatch." All that good stuff. And
51:44so, yeah, it's super super sick. So,
51:46moving on to the very last use case. All
51:48right, this is my simplest yet extremely
51:51valuable and useful use case. And so, I
51:54coach a couple business owners, I
51:55consult them on how to use AI in their
51:57businesses. Extremely valuable for them
52:00and me because they get to automate a
52:01lot of their business without having to
52:03know all this stuff that I've had to
52:04learn the hard way. I'm able to teach it
52:06to them quickly. And so, in here I
52:08manage these clients that I'm working
52:09with, these business owners. I have my
52:11templates for my call notes, my
52:13templates for my school header, um the
52:15system that I have just the skills that
52:16I'm making. So, right now it's very
52:18clean, bare-bones, but Claude knows
52:20inside of here he's just here to help me
52:23do a better job of consulting with these
52:25one-on-one clients and it keeps
52:26everything nice and clean. So, I'll show
52:28you kind of what that looks like. Inside
52:30one of my client's folder, Will, we just
52:31started actually today, which is
52:32exciting. Um I have the call notes
52:34template, which I can just copy and then
52:36fill in immediately after a call. And
52:38then I have an example of what one of
52:40these calls looks like. And so, here,
52:42let me actually zoom in a little bit.
52:44Um it's just
52:46goals for the month of working together
52:48for this first month, the call agenda,
52:51the post-call notes, and then the
52:53recording links, and then I actually
52:54post the transcript, which is sick, from
52:57Loom straight into here, and then it
52:59going to we have to get some timestamps
53:01to actually make the school um
53:03recording. So, what I do is I just come
53:04in here and I'll be like, "You know
53:05what, Claude? Let's let's do this. Let's
53:07start a new conversation.
53:09Can you use the skill in the skills
53:14folder to add timestamps
53:18to this
53:20call note."
53:21And so, now what Claude is doing is he
53:23is using this skill and he's going to
53:25actually create all of these timestamps
53:28for me right here that I can copy
53:30straight into the school, send to my
53:31client, and they feel like, "You know
53:32what? This guy actually cares and he's
53:34making things super valuable for me."
53:36All right, and just like that it is
53:37generating the timestamps for us. Boom,
53:40there we go. So, now all I have to do is
53:43literally copy and paste all this into
53:45the school. So, we'll open that up right
53:47now.
53:48And so, if I go in here to where I host
53:50all my, you know, one-on-one recordings
53:52for my clients, I go in here to Will's
53:54and I can just paste all of that in
53:56here. And look at how valuable this is
53:58for him. He has the recording, all these
54:00good timestamps, and all the notes from
54:02the call just like that in his own
54:03personal little um
54:06course inside of my school, which is
54:08sick. So, yeah, guys, super simple but
54:10also really valuable and adds a lot of
54:12value to my service as I help these
54:14business owners. So, yeah, let's go
54:15finish this up with my bonus tips and
54:17I'll send you guys on your way to go
54:18make some amazing stuff with the Second
54:20Brain. All right, if you watched this
54:21far in the video, I just want to say
54:22from the bottom of my heart, I thank
54:24you. And I want to hopefully bless you
54:26with these bonus tips that not many
54:27people talk about when it comes to AI.
54:29This should help you actually use this
54:31technology to provide value to the
54:33market, solve your own problems. And so,
54:35number one is simply this.
54:38The market only cares about outputs, not
54:41processes. And this can go both ways.
54:43And so, if you have clients who want
54:45this result and you use AI to automate
54:48the entire process, guess what? You can
54:50still charge the high price without
54:52doing any of the work. That's the power
54:54of where AI comes in. But the biggest
54:56danger that I see with most people, even
54:58myself, is we like to automate things
55:01and it feels so good. It feels so cool.
55:04But then the output gets just gets bad.
55:07So, people will automate their
55:08thumbnails, automate their scripting,
55:10but the quality doesn't stay high. It
55:12just turns into slop. And the market
55:15doesn't care how little effort you put
55:17into something or how automated it was
55:19if the output is bad. No one wants
55:21another bad vibe-coded app. They want a
55:24great output. And that's what you have
55:26to use AI for. And so, part of the
55:28process is knowing what to automate and
55:30what not to automate. And so, if you
55:33automate something and the quality drops
55:35hard, you probably shouldn't automate it
55:37yet. Until you can automate it and the
55:39quality stay high, then you should
55:41probably do it yourself and automate a
55:43different part of the process where the
55:44quality doesn't drop off.
55:47And the real value for being legit here
55:50is by outsourcing
55:52everything that doesn't really matter to
55:54AI
55:55so that you can focus on the things that
55:57do matter.
55:58So, the thumbnail for this video, I
56:00spent like 8 hours on, all manually.
56:03But AI did the research so that I could
56:04actually spend that much time designing
56:06the dang thing. And so, that's really
56:08the secret is getting your time back so
56:11that you can apply your human creativity
56:13and judgment to more valuable parts of
56:15the process. Number two,
56:17the value is in the personalization. You
56:20guys have been given this very clean,
56:22basic structure for how to do this, but
56:24you've got to personalize it to your
56:26life, to your business. If you just take
56:29my things and try to do it like me,
56:31you're not going to be as good as me
56:32because you're not me.
56:35And vice versa, me for you. I can't just
56:36steal your skills and all your things.
56:38And so, don't watch all these videos
56:40about use cases and downloading all
56:43these other people's skills. Go make
56:45your own. That's when it becomes really
56:47valuable to you, to your business, to
56:49your family and friends. Number three,
56:51AI is a skill. Learning how to use this
56:54technology comes with so many little
56:56quirks and nuances, and no one has
56:5910,000 hours in it yet, which is
57:01awesome. The field is wide open.
57:04But the best way to learn is not by
57:06watching these videos. Maybe you watch
57:08watch, you know, one of these once, but
57:10then go do it. So, don't sit here and
57:11watch this video over and over again.
57:13Don't go look for other videos. Stop
57:15what you're doing, go test out
57:17everything you've just learned. Cuz
57:18those are the people that are going to
57:19that are going to get ahead quickly,
57:21those who are actually talking with the
57:23robots, learning how they think,
57:25learning how to collaborate, and gaining
57:28the skill of AI.
57:30I see it from like working with
57:31different business owners, the ones who
57:33are the best at AI have just been using
57:35it longer. It's that simple. You just
57:37need time in the game. And number four,
57:39last but not least, have fun. This is
57:42one of the coolest times to be alive.
57:45I'm serious. Besides being in Jerusalem
57:47when Jesus was alive, or besides maybe
57:49like the internet, this is awesome. Like
57:52this is brand new. This is going to
57:54change the entire world. And some people
57:56are like all doom and gloom about it,
57:58but hey, that's in God's hands. All I
58:00know is that this stuff is really cool
58:02and it's so much fun. And so, start with
58:04having fun. Don't try to like conquer
58:06the whole world with AI. Just have a fun
58:09project, try to make it, and see what
58:11happens. You have an idea for an app? Do
58:13it. See what see what happens, you know?
58:15Just just have fun. It's awesome. It's
58:18awesome. So, I hope you guys enjoyed. I
58:19love you all. Thank you all for watching
58:20these videos. If you know someone who
58:22this could benefit, please share it with
58:24them, you know, add value to their life
58:26if you found value from this. And I
58:28hopefully I'll see you guys inside of
58:29the Signal app. See you guys inside of
58:30the school soon. And yeah, take care.

About this transcript

This page contains the full transcript of How To Build The ULTIMATE AI Second Brain (Obsidian + Claude Code) by KJ Rainey, generated from the public captions YouTube serves with the video. The transcript has 12,545 words across 1,742 segments, with the original timestamps preserved so you can click any line to jump to that moment in the embedded player.

What you can do with it

Use the transcript to take notes, quote the speaker, build a study guide, generate a summary with ChatGPT or Claude via the YouTube Summary tool, or export it as a timed subtitle file with YouTube to SRT. You can also re-open it in the transcriber to translate the transcript into 100+ languages.

Free YouTube transcript tool

YouTube2Text is a free YouTube transcript generator — no signup, no daily limit. Paste any YouTube link and get the full transcript instantly, with timestamps, click-to-jump, translation to 100+ languages, AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, or Markdown.