This Claude Code Second Brain Manages My ENTIRE Life in Obsidian (100% Private) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey, I just built the ultimate AI second
2. 0:02brain with Claude code and it lets me
3. 0:05organize my brain dumps into ideas,
4. 0:07people, projects, and tasks. I can even
5. 0:10delegate any task to my specialized AI
6. 0:13employees, all running in parallel on my
7. 0:16laptop. In this video, I'm going to step
8. 0:18you through how to set one of these up
9. 0:19for yourself, plus give you the template
10. 0:22for free. Here's how it works. Capture
11. 0:24any thought in 5 seconds, whether that's
12. 0:26a brain dump, meetings, ideas, or
13. 0:28follow-ups, and Claude Code
14. 0:30automatically classifies everything,
15. 0:32creates the right files and links them
16. 0:35together. The best part of all of this
17. 0:36is that it's happening in Obsidian, so
18. 0:38you can view your notes easily in a
19. 0:40beautiful UI, plus sync them to all of
20. 0:43your devices. Every morning, Claude
21. 0:45scans what's due, what's overdue, and
22. 0:47what projects need attention. It then
23. 0:49creates you a daily brief ready to
24. 0:51action. But it's not just an AI to-do
25. 0:54list. You can actually delegate any task
26. 0:57to your specialized AI employee. They're
27. 1:00trained to handle the work for you, and
28. 1:01they even check off their tasks when
29. 1:03they're done and link to the files they
30. 1:05create. This isn't just sub agents that
31. 1:07block you from working, either. We're
32. 1:09creating completely separate instances
33. 1:12of Claude code to do content research,
34. 1:14writing, spreadsheets, PDFs, or create
35. 1:17PowerPoints. All of these running in
36. 1:19parallel while you keep working on other
37. 1:22tasks. Your AI employee even dings you
38. 1:25when they're done. Plus, because
39. 1:26everything is being tracked in Git,
40. 1:28every single action that Claude takes is
41. 1:30automatically logged with notes. Full
42. 1:33audit trail near perfect recall. You can
43. 1:35time travel on your entire work history,
44. 1:38and Claude can see exactly what happened
45. 1:40and when. And if you're scared of the
46. 1:42terminal, Anthropic has just dropped a
47. 1:44native VS Code extension that gives you
48. 1:47all the power of Claude Code without
49. 1:49ever touching the command line. It's the
50. 1:51same agentic capabilities just wrapped
51. 1:53in a nicer GUI. So whether you're a
52. 1:56terminal warrior or prefer clicking
53. 1:57buttons, I've got you covered in this
54. 1:59video. Like always, I'm giving this away
55. 2:01for free. No sign up, no wait list, just
56. 2:04clone the repo and go. If you don't know
57. 2:06me, my name is Brad. I've been building
58. 2:08with AI for over 5 years now. I started
59. 2:10in big tech where I built thousands of
60. 2:13AI automations for massive companies.
61. 2:15Now I help businesses build AI systems
62. 2:18exactly like this one so they can out
63. 2:20compete with AI. If that's you, links
64. 2:22are in the description. Before we jump
65. 2:24into the setup, I want to explain how
66. 2:26the ultimate AI second brain is
67. 2:28structured. The centerpiece is the
68. 2:29second brain itself, a git tracked
69. 2:31Obsidian vault which stores all of my
70. 2:33thoughts as markdown files. Each of
71. 2:35these files is organized into either
72. 2:37ideas, people, projects, or tasks, and
73. 2:40they all have a due date. Each one of
74. 2:42these is also accessible inside of
75. 2:44Obsidian, so I can easily navigate and
76. 2:47search, plus add any tasks and make
77. 2:49edits. Sitting on top of the second
78. 2:51brain is my Claude code chief of staff.
79. 2:54Basically, this chief of staff can run
80. 2:56your entire work life. You brain dump
81. 2:58into Claude and it creates, identifies,
82. 3:00and decomposes your brain dump into the
83. 3:02base level node structure. For example,
84. 3:04if I write meeting with John to discuss
85. 3:06an AI agent project, it becomes a new
86. 3:09task to meet with John, a new person
87. 3:12record for John, and a new project for
88. 3:14the AI agent project. All of these are
89. 3:16linked together. Think of it like an AI
90. 3:18operating system for your knowledge
91. 3:19work. Tasks, projects, people, ideas,
92. 3:23all tracked in Markdown files that
93. 3:25Claude can read, write, and reason
94. 3:27about. Plus, you have the option of
95. 3:29interacting with them all in Obsidian.
96. 3:31Sitting adjacent to the chief of staff
97. 3:32and second brain are the specialized AI
98. 3:35co-workers. These are different claude
99. 3:37code repositories or folders with
100. 3:39specialist skills and workflows. For
101. 3:41example, we have our head of content AI
102. 3:43employee which can find the best winning
103. 3:45content ideas. We built this one last
104. 3:47week and if you haven't seen that video,
105. 3:49please check out the link above. Our AI
106. 3:51chief of staff can delegate any task
107. 3:53from our second brain to an AI co-orker.
108. 3:56These tasks run in parallel and
109. 3:58completely unsupervised. Once they're
110. 4:00done, they update the original task.
111. 4:02This isn't just another productivity
112. 4:04tool. This is a framework for building
113. 4:06AI employees that actually do work. And
114. 4:08the second brain plus chief of staff is
115. 4:11the command center that sits above your
116. 4:13other AI employees. All right, so here's
117. 4:16how your second brain actually works.
118. 4:18There are a few really key directories
119. 4:20within our second brain folder. We have
120. 4:23the ideas, the people, the projects, and
121. 4:25tasks. These are where we're storing all
122. 4:28of our different pieces of information
123. 4:29that we ingest into the second brain. We
124. 4:32also have some other folders in here as
125. 4:33well. The context folder, the daily
126. 4:35folder, and the outputs folder. I'll
127. 4:37start with the context folder. The
128. 4:39context folder is where you create all
129. 4:41of the different markdown files that
130. 4:42make this second brain your own. You can
131. 4:45add in a writing style, a business
132. 4:47profile, anything that's going to help
133. 4:48you make Claude understand you even
134. 4:51better. I already have a tweet style
135. 4:52saved in here. It just says I like short
136. 4:54tweets. So it can be as complex and
137. 4:57detailed as you like and obviously the
138. 4:59more context that you can give Claude
139. 5:01code the better the results you're going
140. 5:02to get. So outside of the context folder
141. 5:04we have the outputs folder. So whenever
142. 5:06I delegate a task to one of my AI
143. 5:09employees or I use or I delegate a task
144. 5:13within this particular repo and it has
145. 5:15to do research, create a file, anything
146. 5:17like that that's saved in the outputs
147. 5:19folder. But each of these will be linked
148. 5:21back to the original task. So every time
149. 5:23I run a /to today command and it has to
150. 5:25come up with a a daily plan for me, it
151. 5:28will save that daily plan here. So
152. 5:30that's separate from a task or anything
153. 5:31like that. And that lets me work through
154. 5:33this uh as my day goes on. So outside of
155. 5:36those folders, we have a claude folder
156. 5:38and aobsidian folder. So the important
157. 5:40thing to remember is that this second
158. 5:41brain is also an obsidian vault. So
159. 5:44that's why we have theobsidian folder,
160. 5:46which means we can actually go in and
161. 5:47read all of these markdown files super
162. 5:50easily inside of Obsidian. and it makes
163. 5:52it a pleasure to work with. So I have
164. 5:54the record here for Bruce Rain in the
165. 5:56people folder. He's a CEO of Wayne
166. 5:58Enterprises. Obviously much nicer to
167. 6:00look at then would be looking at this
168. 6:02inside of VS Code or cursor. So I guess
169. 6:04I should give you the definition of what
170. 6:05a task versus project versus an idea
171. 6:08versus a person is. Obviously person is
172. 6:10pretty self-explanatory. Any
173. 6:11relationship that comes up as part of a
174. 6:13brain dump that you put into cord will
175. 6:15be saved there. A task is anything with
176. 6:17a defined end date. So, I need to create
177. 6:20an email for so and so or I need to uh
178. 6:23write some copy for the marketing
179. 6:25campaign, something like that. A project
180. 6:27is a larger piece of work that's made up
181. 6:29of tasks. So, typically a project uh
182. 6:32file will be linked to several tasks and
183. 6:34may even be linked to some people. Ideas
184. 6:36are captured thoughts. They can be
185. 6:37anything. Maybe it's a a content idea,
186. 6:40maybe it's a new million-doll business
187. 6:42idea that you've that you've come up
188. 6:44with. Anything like that will be saved
189. 6:46here. So, one of the example ones I have
190. 6:49here is a prompt library for SAS. So,
191. 6:51every single one of the files, no matter
192. 6:53which folder they're saved in, whether
193. 6:55that's an idea, people, project, task,
194. 6:56or output, has a YAML header. So, we can
195. 7:00see the type, the tags, the created
196. 7:02date. And then for tasks, we can also
197. 7:04see the due date, which is really
198. 7:07important. All tasks need to have a due
199. 7:09date, which helps because Claude is
200. 7:10using looking for that due date whenever
201. 7:12it's running the today command. There's
202. 7:14also let's call it filter. So we can
203. 7:16filter based on the tags, based on
204. 7:17created date, whether it's overdue or
205. 7:19not. So that's all of the data that
206. 7:21makes the second brain the second brain.
207. 7:23Now I want to talk about what makes the
208. 7:25chief of staff agent or the clawed code
209. 7:27that's running on this particular repo.
210. 7:30Inside the claude directory, we have our
211. 7:32hooks and our skills. Pretty
212. 7:33self-explanatory if you've worked with
213. 7:34CLA code before. Inside the skill
214. 7:37directory, we have all of the skills
215. 7:38that are making our chief of staff
216. 7:40actually useful when running over the
217. 7:42second brain. and I'll run you through
218. 7:43what each of these does now. So, the
219. 7:46first one I'm going to show you is the
220. 7:47new command. The new command is probably
221. 7:49the one you're going to use the most.
222. 7:51Anytime you want to add something into
223. 7:52the second brain or write down a
224. 7:54thought, whether it's a new project,
225. 7:56emails, ideas, whatever, you can use the
226. 7:58new command. It's really, really
227. 7:59variable. So, I'll just type / new and
228. 8:02then I can write any thought. So, I want
229. 8:05to create a library for Claude skills.
230. 8:12Once I use that command, Claude then
231. 8:14starts to pick the command apart or
232. 8:16decompose it and create the relative
233. 8:18tasks. This one is super simple. It's
234. 8:20just one simple task. So, uh, when is
235. 8:22this due? Let's say no due date. It's
236. 8:25pretty open-ended. So, once I've
237. 8:26selected that, Claude will create the
238. 8:28task within the vault. So, we have it
239. 8:31right here. We have the type task, and I
240. 8:33can even click here and view it on the
241. 8:34right hand side. If I wanted to go add
242. 8:36some additional content or brain dump
243. 8:38some more into Claude, it could update
244. 8:40that task for me. But that's a really
245. 8:42simple task. I want to show you exactly
246. 8:44how powerful this new command is. If I
247. 8:47do / new, I have a meeting with John
248. 8:52Clemens about his new AI agent for
249. 8:56customer support. I need to prepare an
250. 8:59evaluation of the different vendors
251. 9:02beforehand. So, this is a complex task.
252. 9:04It's made up of several different
253. 9:05components. We have a person in John
254. 9:07Clemens. We have a a project in the AI
255. 9:10agent for customer support. And I have a
256. 9:12task in I need to prepare an evaluation
257. 9:14of the different vendors beforehand. So
258. 9:16I'll click enter. And then Claude will
259. 9:18go to work in decomposing that brain
260. 9:20dump into the specific subcomponents.
261. 9:24So looks like it's mclassified one of
262. 9:26those, but that's okay. I'm going to say
263. 9:28this is due tomorrow.
264. 9:30So the person it's picked that out
265. 9:32correctly. It's created a task for the
266. 9:35meeting with John Clemens the AI agent
267. 9:37and it also has another task for prepare
268. 9:39vendor evaluation. So I guess it wasn't
269. 9:41that incorrect. So I probably would have
270. 9:44created a project as well but obviously
271. 9:45you can go and improve this as much as
272. 9:47you want. Now I have these three
273. 9:49different files here. I can go and click
274. 9:51to John Clemens and I can click to the
275. 9:53to the meeting here. So this chief of
276. 9:55staff is trained with how Obsidian uh
277. 9:58expects links within MD file. I have the
278. 10:00person record for John Clemens linked to
279. 10:02the task and also the other task to
280. 10:05prepare a vendor evaluation for the AI
281. 10:07agent. So if I go into Obsidian here and
282. 10:10I search for meeting with John Clemens,
283. 10:15I can see it right here. I can see that
284. 10:16it's links to John Clemens here. Uh and
285. 10:19then it also links to the other
286. 10:21subtasks. So prepare evaluation of
287. 10:23different AI agent vendors for customer
288. 10:25support. So that's how the new skill
289. 10:27works. It's super powerful and is how
290. 10:30you can brain dump pretty much anything
291. 10:32into your AI second brain without having
292. 10:34to worry about organizing any of these
293. 10:36MD files. Cord will just handle that for
294. 10:38you. So that's the new skill. When you
295. 10:40want to start your day in the morning
296. 10:41and you want to see exactly what's in
297. 10:42your second brain and what you need to
298. 10:44action, the prioritized list of what you
299. 10:46need to be working on right this moment,
300. 10:48that's when you use the today skill. So
301. 10:50I go slash today and that will tell
302. 10:52Claude to go through all of my tasks and
303. 10:55that are due today or in the next couple
304. 10:57of days and rank them based on their
305. 10:59importance and then give me a daily
306. 11:01brief of tasks that I need to action
307. 11:03right now. So you can see Claude's going
308. 11:05through and reading all of the different
309. 11:07tasks that I have that are due in the
310. 11:08next couple of days or overdue. It
311. 11:10prioritizes overdue tasks, so things
312. 11:12that I've missed from the last previous
313. 11:14days, and then it will list out today's
314. 11:16tasks and then any tasks that are due in
315. 11:18the future. So you can see it's reading
316. 11:19a lot of information because I have a
317. 11:22lot of data that I've put into the
318. 11:23second brain for things that I need to
319. 11:25start looking at. So I'd already run
320. 11:26slash today. So it's already found my
321. 11:30today brief and just made some updates
322. 11:31based on some new tasks that I've added
323. 11:33since I ran it earlier. Now it's given
324. 11:35me a summary of that brief. But I
325. 11:37actually want to go in and read the
326. 11:38brief in full. So I'll open Obsidian up.
327. 11:40I'll go to my files and then I can go to
328. 11:41my daily tab. And I can see that I have
329. 11:44my today briefing from today. So I can
330. 11:46go see all the tasks that are due. So I
331. 11:48need to write a proposal for document
332. 11:50processing. I need to prepare a vendor
333. 11:52evaluation for AI agents which is the
334. 11:54task we just created. Write an X thread
335. 11:56on Claude skills. Research AI automation
336. 11:58YouTube trends and some YouTube other
337. 12:01YouTube content. I also have a few
338. 12:02overdue tasks which I haven't gotten to.
339. 12:04An invoice creating a SAR workshop and a
340. 12:07one-on-one with Marcus. It's also
341. 12:09linking all of my active projects that I
342. 12:11have at the moment and any recent
343. 12:13activity in this repo. It's also telling
344. 12:15me what I've completed as well. So I've
345. 12:17completed some research about make
346. 12:19versus naden and some AI automation
347. 12:21questions from core and Reddit. So
348. 12:23that's my plan for today and then I
349. 12:25would go through and execute on these. I
350. 12:27can either go and check these off
351. 12:28individually or the most powerful part
352. 12:30of this repo is I can delegate some of
353. 12:32these. So I want to actually delegate
354. 12:34this uh X thread for chord skills. What
355. 12:38I'm going to do is show you how the
356. 12:39delegate skill works. Now, before I get
357. 12:41into that, I want to shout out to Indie
358. 12:42Devdan, who is the original creator of
359. 12:45the script for the delegate task. He
360. 12:48made a really great video on how to fork
361. 12:50terminals uh in chord code and created a
362. 12:53great skill which I've adapted for this
363. 12:55workflow. So, if you're not already
364. 12:56subscribed to Indie Devdan, go check him
365. 12:58out. I'll leave a link to that video in
366. 13:00the description below. So, I want to
367. 13:01delegate some of those tasks. I'm going
368. 13:03to type in /delegate and then I'll paste
369. 13:05in that task. So, right X thread for
370. 13:09cord skills. Uh, and to the head of
371. 13:13content. Now, if you haven't seen my
372. 13:14video on the head of content that came
373. 13:16out last week and it's a really great
374. 13:18watch. So, I'll link it up here so you
375. 13:19can go have a look. But what the head of
376. 13:21content is is a specialized AI co-worker
377. 13:24that has a bunch of workflows and
378. 13:26scripts related to content research. So
379. 13:29by delegating this to the head of
380. 13:31content, it's going to open up a new
381. 13:33terminal on my machine, not just use a
382. 13:35sub agent. This means that I don't have
383. 13:37to stop working because it's opened a
384. 13:39new ver a new instance of claude code. I
385. 13:42can continue to delegate other tasks or
386. 13:44I can go on my phone or I can go create
387. 13:47write some emails, any of that. That's
388. 13:48an old one over here. So I'm just going
389. 13:49to terminate that. But you can see that
390. 13:51it's opened a new terminal. Uh it's
391. 13:54given the prompt for what I need it to
392. 13:56do based on the task. It has the
393. 13:58directory where that task is saved and
394. 14:00it's also been instructed to update that
395. 14:02task once it's completed. So I'll leave
396. 14:05that in the background now and it'll
397. 14:07ding us when it's done. So I want to go
398. 14:09back up here and I want to actually take
399. 14:11advantage of that delegate skill even
400. 14:12more and delegate some more. So I'm
401. 14:14going to ask it to prepare that intake
402. 14:16proposal. So I'm going to delegate that
403. 14:18task
404. 14:21and that ding. That was the agent
405. 14:23finishing in the background there. So
406. 14:24I'm going to delegate this prepare
407. 14:25intake proposal task. I'm not going to
408. 14:27use an AI coworker here because my chief
409. 14:29of staff agent can handle this. I just
410. 14:31don't want it to run in this terminal.
411. 14:32So, I can see that it's finished uh the
412. 14:35clawed code thread and it's saved that
413. 14:38to the outputs here. Uh so, I am going
414. 14:41to go take a look at that in Obsidian.
415. 14:44I'll just actually let it run this other
416. 14:46command here. So in the outputs I can
417. 14:48see that here's that X thread for Claude
418. 14:51skills
419. 14:52and it's given me the first tweet the
420. 14:55hook what are skills and a bit of a a
421. 14:57bit of a breakdown here of of the thread
422. 14:59that I could run. So you'll also find
423. 15:01that when I search for that other skill
424. 15:04X thread for chord uh for claude skills.
425. 15:07So I go back to my daily uh brief and
426. 15:09then I click on that thread, it's been
427. 15:11marked as completed because I delegated
428. 15:12that task to Claude code in the
429. 15:15background. And then it's also linked to
430. 15:17the actual output thread here. So that's
431. 15:19really great and working as we want it
432. 15:22to. While we've been talking, I actually
433. 15:24delegated another task to uh a different
434. 15:27version of claude code which is open in
435. 15:28another terminal here. It's going to
436. 15:30really struggle to write this proposal
437. 15:31for any tech because I have absolutely
438. 15:34zero context within this folder around
439. 15:37it. But if I had taken the time to go
440. 15:38and fill in this context folder with
441. 15:40details around the project or had given
442. 15:43it some more instructions as to where it
443. 15:44could find that context, then it would
444. 15:45go and write that proposal. But we're
445. 15:48going to leave that in the background to
446. 15:49keep running. And it's just finished. So
447. 15:51every time one of these tasks finish in
448. 15:53the background, it plays a sound so we
449. 15:56know to go check that it's completed. So
450. 15:58I can see that it's created a proposal.
451. 16:01We'll see what it says because to be
452. 16:02honest, it had nothing to go on. So it
453. 16:04might be quite funny. So, in my output
454. 16:07folder here, I have my in inite techch
455. 16:09proposal. So, apparently they process
456. 16:11over 10,000 invoices monthly. It's
457. 16:13giving me the current state, some
458. 16:14business impact, uh, vision model
459. 16:17architecture, and a couple of different
460. 16:18prices. Sounds like this is going to be
461. 16:20a really expensive proposal for initech.
462. 16:22So, that's great. So, that's the power
463. 16:25of the second brain and delegate skill
464. 16:27together. As you can see, the sky is
465. 16:29really the limit here as far as what you
466. 16:30can do with it. You can run as many
467. 16:32claude code instances on your computer
468. 16:34as your plan will allow and as your
469. 16:36computer has memory. So we're not
470. 16:39limited here by running sub agents in
471. 16:41one claude. We can run as many tasks at
472. 16:43the same time as possible. The other
473. 16:44thing that we can do here and we saw
474. 16:46with the head of content skill is
475. 16:47delegate to AI employees. So we have an
476. 16:50AI employee for head of for content
477. 16:53research at the moment. But we can very
478. 16:55easily go and build an AI employee for
479. 16:57sales, for marketing, for customer
480. 17:01support, for customer success. Any of
481. 17:03those different verticals will have
482. 17:04specific workflows and scripts that we
483. 17:06can develop to help those AI employees
484. 17:09do their job even better. But even
485. 17:11without those AI employees, Claude's
486. 17:13delegating it to just another instance
487. 17:15of Claude is still does a pretty good
488. 17:16job. There's one last thing that makes
489. 17:18this chief of staff the ultimate AI
490. 17:20second brain and that is the hooks that
491. 17:23we've built in. So claude hooks are
492. 17:25deterministic workflows that always
493. 17:27happen when Claude does something. In
494. 17:28the settings.json file, we have the two
495. 17:30hooks that I've preconfigured for this
496. 17:32repo and they're really really cool. So
497. 17:34the first one is an auto commit hook and
498. 17:36that runs after anytime Claude updates a
499. 17:39file or creates a file within the repo.
500. 17:41Whenever I use the new skill or the
501. 17:43today's skill or delegate a task, the
502. 17:46auto commit hook will run. That runs a a
503. 17:49script that we have set up in the hooks
504. 17:50folder. I'm not going to go through that
505. 17:51now, but if you want to, it's there. The
506. 17:53other hook that we have set up is a
507. 17:55command for it to play a stop sound
508. 17:57whenever Claude finishes its run. So, we
509. 17:59obviously don't want the chief of staff
510. 18:01to play a sound every single time we do
511. 18:03something cuz that would be super
512. 18:04annoying. So, what we've done is set an
513. 18:06environment variable every time we're
514. 18:09opening up a new claude instance. And
515. 18:11that hook is listening for that
516. 18:13environment variable to be set to one.
517. 18:15When that's set to one, it'll play a
518. 18:17little chime sound so we know that
519. 18:18chord's finished doing that work. I need
520. 18:20to zoom in on that git part because it's
521. 18:22one of the most powerful parts of this
522. 18:24second brain. Git isn't just for code.
523. 18:27It's the world's best audit system when
524. 18:29it comes to AI workflows. If AI can know
525. 18:32exactly what changes were made and when
526. 18:34they were made and by who ma and who
527. 18:36made them, it's able to reverse engineer
528. 18:39any mistakes that happened down the
529. 18:40track. It's really, really powerful. I
530. 18:42want to show you how easy it is to use
531. 18:44your chief of staff to see what has
532. 18:46happened with your tasks in the last
533. 18:48couple of days. So, check the git log to
534. 18:51see what updates I've made in the past 7
535. 18:57days. So, this repo has only been around
536. 18:58for three, so we won't have seven days
537. 19:00worth, but we'll see. So, you can see
538. 19:02every single commit or every single
539. 19:04change that h has happened since this
540. 19:06repo has been initialized. 27 commits on
541. 19:09the first day, 44 on the second, and 22
542. 19:12today. We have all of the different
543. 19:14changes that have been made, every task
544. 19:16that I've created, every task that I've
545. 19:18marked as completed, every output file,
546. 19:20everything is stored in Git. This is the
547. 19:22real superpower of this second brain
548. 19:24because a system that you might set up
549. 19:26in notion or confluence with Zapia
550. 19:28doesn't have this ability. You can't
551. 19:30tell what has changed within your second
552. 19:32brain over 1 day, 2 days, 7 days since
553. 19:35it's begun. Git gives you a complete
554. 19:37history of every change that has
555. 19:39happened in this repo. It gives you
556. 19:40total flexibility and the ability to
557. 19:42revert any change at any time. You can
558. 19:45compare two points in time to see
559. 19:47exactly what it's what's changed. you
560. 19:49can branch out and and experiment on one
561. 19:51path and then revert back to the other.
562. 19:53It really is a superpower and blows away
563. 19:56notion or confluence or just obsidian by
564. 19:58itself. I want to pause for a second
565. 19:59because this AI system can literally 10x
566. 20:02the amount of work that you get done if
567. 20:04you use it correctly. But this is really
568. 20:05just the foundation. We've proved the
569. 20:07concept with the head of content plugged
570. 20:09into the second brain with the chief of
571. 20:11staff. What comes next is more AI
572. 20:13employees. Like what if you had a head
573. 20:14of research that monitored competitors
574. 20:16daily? a head of marketing that drafted
575. 20:18content based on your playbooks, a head
576. 20:20of ops that manage your calendar and
577. 20:22email. Each one of these lives in its
578. 20:24own repo or folder with its own
579. 20:25specialized skills. The chief of staff
580. 20:28orchestrates all of them. You end up
581. 20:30with a full AI workforce, all spawning
582. 20:32from one place, all tracked in Git and
583. 20:35all without another expensive
584. 20:37subscription that you weren't already
585. 20:38paying for. This is what I mean when I
586. 20:40say we're building AI employees, not AI
587. 20:43tools. If you want to see me build out
588. 20:45more employees, head of research, head
589. 20:47of writing, head of whatever, hit the
590. 20:49subscribe button. This repo is just the
591. 20:51start. So, if you want to get started
592. 20:52with your second brain, here's exactly
593. 20:54how to do that. Clone the repository
594. 20:56from the link in the description below
595. 20:58to your local machine. Whether you're
596. 20:59using git to do that or whether you're
597. 21:01just downloading the zip files, it
598. 21:02doesn't matter. But what you need to do
599. 21:04is get that repository open in an ID
600. 21:06like VS Code or cursor. Once you do have
601. 21:08that open, create a new terminal and go
602. 21:10to claude code. Now, I've made it super
603. 21:13super easy to get started with this. All
604. 21:15you need to do is go /st start second
605. 21:17brain. This will create all of the
606. 21:20folders that we need and it will start
607. 21:21the git tracking so that we have that
608. 21:23audit log for all of the second brain uh
609. 21:26tasks, ideas, and projects that we
610. 21:28create. So, I'm just going to say yes.
611. 21:30So, it's gone ahead and created all of
612. 21:33the folders that we need here. And now
613. 21:35it's going to initialize git.
614. 21:39Great. So we have everything we need to
615. 21:41get started with the second brain. Now
616. 21:43that's literally it. We can do a few
617. 21:46things to really increase the power of
618. 21:48our second brain. So in the docord
619. 21:50folder there is a few different
620. 21:52reference files. So you want to go to
621. 21:54doclord references and then
622. 21:55employees.json. If you have any other
623. 21:58employee directory set up on your
624. 21:59machine, whether that's the head of
625. 22:00content that we created last week or a
626. 22:03different AI repo that you want to save
627. 22:05here, you can do so. So you can just
628. 22:07either edit this here. You can edit the
629. 22:10head of content example or you can
630. 22:12create another one. So this is just
631. 22:13JSON. So if you want to add another one,
632. 22:15you would just go down here and create a
633. 22:18new line.
634. 22:20So what you want to put here is the
635. 22:22relative path to where that repo is from
636. 22:24this repo. So for my example, I have
637. 22:27both the head of content and my second
638. 22:29brain repos in the same folder, GitHub.
639. 22:32So if you have a similar setup, you
640. 22:34would do uh something very similar to
641. 22:36that. But if you do have problems or
642. 22:37need help trying to find exactly what
643. 22:39you need to put there, just ask Claude.
644. 22:41So once you have your employees.json set
645. 22:43up, the other thing that you want to set
646. 22:44up is your context folder. So inside of
647. 22:47your context folder, you can add as many
648. 22:50markdown files as you want. Whether that
649. 22:52is your company profile, some branding
650. 22:54guidelines, whatever. The more context
651. 22:56you can add here, the better the better
652. 22:58outputs you'll get from your chief of
653. 23:00staff and second brain. So that's it.
654. 23:02Once you have the repo initialized using
655. 23:05the start second brain command and you
656. 23:08have added in your settings and content
657. 23:10that's all you need to get started. If
658. 23:12you want to use the second brain inside
659. 23:14of Obsidian, what you need to do is
660. 23:16first go download Obsidian and there'll
661. 23:17be a link in the description below if
662. 23:18you don't have that already. It's free.
663. 23:20So I'm going to open Obsidian on my
664. 23:22machine. So once you've got Obsidian
665. 23:23opened up on your machine, you want to
666. 23:25go to the open folder as a vault and
667. 23:28find the folder that you've saved your
668. 23:30Second Brain in. So I've got second
669. 23:31brain here and I'll press open. Now I
670. 23:34have all of the files open in Obsidian
671. 23:36and any markdowns we markdown files or
672. 23:38tasks we create will be available here
673. 23:40as well. So that's it. Once you have the
674. 23:42repo cloned, you've got it open in
675. 23:43Obsidian, that's all you need to do. Uh
676. 23:45there are also detailed instructions in
677. 23:47the readme of the repo linked in the
678. 23:49description below. Yeah, that's it. Or
679. 23:51you can now just go start new and
680. 23:53whatever's on your mind, projects,
681. 23:55ideas, tasks, anything. So second brains
682. 23:58are innately personal. So, I want you to
683. 24:00try mine. Obviously, you're going to
684. 24:01want to make some changes to make it fit
685. 24:03you perfectly, but I'm really excited to
686. 24:06see where you guys go with it and to see
687. 24:07what you guys create. If you found this
688. 24:09video useful, do me a favor, hit like
689. 24:11and subscribe. I'm planning a lot more
690. 24:13content around Claude Code, AI
691. 24:15employees, more co-worker directories,
692. 24:17more skills. If you want to see specific
693. 24:20capabilities or employees, drop a
694. 24:22comment telling me exactly what you want
695. 24:24to see next. Thanks for watching.