7d • General discussion
Building a Second Brain
A second brain typically means "an AI-augmented personal knowledge system where the AI doesn’t just store notes—it reads them, reasons over them, synthesizes insights, surfaces forgotten connections, and can help act on them."
Basically a database of all your thoughts, ideas, communications, etc. I've broken them into different subsets of areas of focus.
I'm also creating folders with information related to specific business practices or business experts.
Then you point Claude to those areas and create a skill to review the information based on what you want out of it..
Using recommendations from people ahead of me and the Claude space, which are most those people :), I'm using the free download Obsidian to organize this information.
Ideally, you'd put Obsidian into your standardized work flow and automatically export data to the appropriate folders through your workday so the second brain grows naturally with your experience.
Right now this process is manual, so it's taking some time to get enough data in there to test out different skill markdown files,find out how best to store the information, organize the information, and access the information.
I'll let you know how that goes.
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Building a Second Brain
