How To Build The ULTIMATE AI Second Brain (Obsidian + C… — Transcript

Learn to build a powerful AI second brain using Obsidian and Claude to strategize, plan, and execute your goals efficiently.

Key Takeaways

  • Combining Claude AI with Obsidian creates a powerful AI assistant for strategic thinking and task execution.
  • A two-layer approach separates planning (layer one) from doing (layer two) for maximum productivity.
  • Claude.md files enable customized AI instructions tailored to user goals and projects.
  • Regular updates and context sharing keep the AI aligned with the user’s evolving needs.
  • This system can help users build complex projects and manage goals efficiently without technical expertise.

Summary

  • The video explains how to create an AI second brain combining Claude AI and Obsidian note-taking software.
  • It introduces a two-layer system: the first layer focuses on strategy and planning with Claude as a thinking partner.
  • The second layer is project-focused, where Claude acts as a digital employee to help execute tasks.
  • Claude.md files provide instructions and context to Claude within each folder for personalized assistance.
  • The first layer integrates notes, goals, journals, calendar, and reviews to give Claude full context.
  • Claude helps clarify goals, create actionable plans, and recall information from all stored data.
  • The second layer involves opening specific project folders where Claude assists with task execution.
  • The system allows for continuous updates and context refresh through weekly interviews with Claude.
  • Obsidian plugins like Readwise can automate note imports, enhancing the second brain’s knowledge base.
  • The setup empowers users to work smarter, build projects, and manage goals even without prior software experience.

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Speaker A
This AI second brain will help you get more work done than you ever thought possible.
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And I want to show you how to set it up.
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In the next five minutes.
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And then we can dive deep.
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I'll show you every single tip I've found to help you unlock its maximum power.
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And that gum it isn't powerful because here's what it helped me do.
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In the last 45 days alone.
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Including building a sick web app that I launched yesterday and has real paying users, all without any prior software experience.
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It is insane.
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You see by taking the agentic AI power of Claude and then combining it with the storage structure and note-taking power of Obsidian, you essentially unlock a 200 IQ employee who knows exactly what you need done, can help you do it, and then can do it while you sleep.
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And the reason my AI second brain works so well is because it's a two-layered system.
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The first layer is all about AI helping you think.
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The AI brain is trained to be the general of an army, so it helps you strategize, it helps you plan your goals, it helps you see where you want to go and figure out what is the plan to actually get there.
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And then the second layer is full of AI soldiers.
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And so they're programmed specifically to help you with each task that you've already decided you need to do to hit your goals.
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Which gives you essentially an AI digital army at your command.
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Which sounds insane, but if you'll just watch along, I'll try to prove to you its power.
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So let's go set this up for yourself.
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So let's talk about how this works so that you can use this to the best of your ability.
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And the first layer of this two-layer system is all about strategy and storage.
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It's simply to answer the question.
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What do we do?
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So you have these goals, these dreams, these ambitions, but you don't really know what you have to do to get there.
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That's what this layer solves.
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And we have Claude in this layer as a thinking partner.
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You can see my little Einstein Claude representation here.
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But normally, Claude isn't very good as a thinking partner because he doesn't have context about you.
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He doesn't have your notes, your goals, your journals, like what's going on in your life.
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And this layer solves that problem.
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So his entire role, like I said, is a thinking partner.
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You and Claude are acting as the general of an army.
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So just like it's hard for a general to command an army when they're on the front line.
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The same thing is true of you and Claude.
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In this layer, you're not trying to do a bunch of stuff, you're trying to figure out what are the right things you should do.
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In the next layer.
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And that's the secret.
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And we do that by you and him sharing context.
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So your notes on your books, videos, courses, etc., your journals, your calendar, your long-term goals, your reviews.
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So like, are you actually making progress towards those goals?
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And then ultimately, your projects.
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Which is that next layer.
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And so how does Claude actually act as a thinking partner?
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Well, Claude has given us these cool things called Claude.md.
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It sounds complicated and crazy.
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But it's simply just instructions for Claude in a folder.
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So every folder that you open up that you're going to work on with Claude.
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If you type out a Claude.md file, you can tell him what his instructions are in that folder.
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If you want full guide on this and just how to use Claude for the first time, I made a full co-work master class which includes all this stuff.
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So check that out in the top right-hand corner.
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If you're brand new.
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But like I said, it's very simple.
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It's just instructions.
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And so in this folder, you'll see with my setup, it'll actually do this for you.
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But I just want to explain kind of what's actually there.
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It's just so Claude knows who you are, what you're trying to do, what his rules are, and your strengths and weaknesses.
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And kind of your goals.
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And so that's what his instructions are in here.
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He knows that he's a thinking partner.
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He's not supposed to be doing, he's supposed to be helping decide what to do.
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And also, we can give Claude some skills and commands.
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And so the two skills that I've given Claude after you set it up is just new project.
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And so he interviews you to help you make new projects.
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So those new second layers.
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And also we have weekly update, so he'll interview you and he'll update everything across your brain that has to be updated.
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That way he always has fresh and recent context.
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Now what's the point of this?
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Like what's the value?
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In having this layer.
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Here it is.
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It's because you get clear goals.
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You have a clear plan to actually hit those goals.
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Which means your thinking is clear, clean, and dangerous.
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And also as a bonus, you can easily recall information.
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So this is what people normally like base their whole second brain around.
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Which is important.
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But not near as important as the actual strategy to accomplishing what you want in life.
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But you also can recall information.
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So because Claude has access to all of your books, videos, goals, journals, calendar.
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You can ask him questions about anything in your life.
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And he knows.
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He can go find it.
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So super cool.
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So let's me show you what this layer actually looks like in Obsidian and we'll go on to layer two.
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So this is what a layer one actually looks like inside of Obsidian.
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This is my real second brain layer one.
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So as you can see here, I have the Claude.md, so Claude knows who I am and what his purpose is.
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What my purpose is and how it can help me in this folder.
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Which is really cool.
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Also, he has my goals as in a file here.
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And here we have all that shared context that I talked about just a second ago.
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We have my notes, and so as you can see here, it's got all my notes from my books.
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Which you can use a plugin called Readwise to like do this automatically.
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Or you can just have Claude read your Kindle notes.
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Which is cool.
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It has course notes, my video notes, I've got my journals.
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My chess moves, which you guys will see later on is basically just my long-term strategy journal.
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Claude helping me decide where should I focus my time.
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That's the whole value of this.
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Then we have my projects, so you can see this is that second layer.
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We'll talk about this in a second.
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But he has access to all of it, so he can see across all my projects.
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And that's where some of the value comes in.
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He's not just boxed into one.
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He can see across all of them.
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He's the general of my army.
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Then we have reviews, which you guys will have weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly.
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But I just had a template for now.
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I don't really do reviews that much.
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Then we have skills.
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These are the skills that you set up that Claude can use.
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In this first layer, so like I said, this is just an overview.
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We'll go into depth later.
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Also, we have Claude inside of this first layer.
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So I can ask him stuff about literally anything.
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Um, which we'll show you guys examples in a bit.
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But this is cool.
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You also know how to set up this plugin.
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Let's go look at the second layer.
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So welcome to Layer Two, this is the project layer.
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So in the first layer, we answered the question, what do you do?
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In this layer, we answer, how do we do it and then we go do it.
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So this is where the value actually comes into your life.
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You actually start solving problems.
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And so the way that these this layer works is you open up Claude and Obsidian.
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Inside of a specific project folder.
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So inside of your meta layer, which houses everything, you have all your projects.
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Here you open up just the project.
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And in here, Claude has a very specific task.
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He is supposed to be your digital employee.
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And so the instructions for Claude are a little bit different.
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In here, we want him to know what is the project, what is the goal, what is his role in helping us hit that goal.
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And basically, like what's what's entailed in actually doing this system.
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And I'll give you guys tons of examples, um, and this will set it up for you.
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It like my plugin will set this up for you itself.
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So you don't have to really know, but I just want to show you kind of what's involved.
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And also in this project, Claude has specific skills and commands.
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Just for this project.
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Which is so cool.
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And so every project is very simple.
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It's just the outputs that you want.
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And so like, what are you actually trying to achieve?
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For example, this YouTube video is an output in my main channel system.
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Which I'll show you guys in detail later.
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The inputs would be my ideas for the videos.
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The process folder would be how Claude helps me do the research, come up with the title, the thumbnail, the actual content of the video.
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And the feedback would be the metrics of the video.
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Your guys's comments.
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And my own thoughts.
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And so Claude in this folder just helps me make YouTube videos.
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He's not worried about all that other stuff.
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And that's where the value comes into play.
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And then obviously, you have multiple different projects for all that you want to accomplish.
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In your life.
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And Claude has different skills and commands for each project.
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So like I said, don't get overwhelmed.
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I'm going to show you guys all this live.
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I just wanted to give you this if you need help, come back and watch this over and over again.
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I promise.
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It is worth it and it's free.
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So yeah, let's actually take a look real quick at.
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What is Obsidian?
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So if you don't know what Obsidian is.
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It's very simple.
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It's just a way to view folders and files.
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That's it.
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It's nothing crazy.
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As you can see on the left-hand side, this is the Mac Finder.
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So this is Mac's natural way to view files.
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Here's Obsidian.
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In that same folder.
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It's the same exact folder, but Obsidian just gives you the option to have plugins, to have Claude inside of Obsidian.
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To actually be able to view the files and edit them while you're still seeing the folder on the left.
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So that's all it is.
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It's nothing scary.
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It's just a folder viewer on steroids where you can customize it.
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Make it look whatever you want.
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It's it's really cool.
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And if you ever wonder, like, what about VS Code?
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Or what about anti-gravity?
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These are all pretty much the same things.
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So VS Code is kind of like Obsidian, but for coders.
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So it has plugins and it's set up more for editing code.
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Whereas Obsidian is more for editing like knowledge work.
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You know, writing and notes and stuff like that.
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But you can do the same thing across all of them.
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They're just different ways to view files and folders.
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So yeah, no need to get too far in the weeds there.
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But this is the same folder literally opened up in each individual plugin.
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Or each individual app.
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So the same thing, it's just different ways to view the files.
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Okay, so here's what the second layer looks like inside of Obsidian.
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What we just went over.
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So if you look in your meta layer, you have projects.
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Now the second layer is when we open up Obsidian in one of these projects specifically.
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So I'm going to go down here.
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I'm going to click this.
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I'm going to go to manage vaults.
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And I'm going to open folder as a vault, and so here is my actual KJ OS folder.
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I go to projects.
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And then I can open up any of these projects as their own vault.
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So I'm going to open up my main channel.
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And I'll pull it up right here.
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So here is my main channel project.
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And so this is layer two.
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I'm now working specifically on making YouTube videos.
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And Claude knows this because of his Claude.md.
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Like I said, I'll show you guys how to set up all of this.
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Almost automatically.
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But I just wanted to kind of give you an overview.
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So in here, he has his own skills.
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He has his own iteration logs.
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He has his own like process.
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Like it just keeps it super, super clean.
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And I have Claude right here on the side.
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And so I can create a new chat and I can ask him to, you know, summarize his idea.
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To run skills, to literally help me do everything I do with content.
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And that's why it's so dang powerful.
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All right, let's go over how to set this bad boy up for yourself.
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As quick and painless as possible.
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First thing I want you to do is come over here to Claude.com and you're going to download the Claude desktop app.
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Um, if you want a full guide on this, it's in my co-work master class, I go over all the settings, all that good stuff.
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But I'll leave it out this time.
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Go check that out in the top right corner.
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But all you're going to do is you're going to download this app for Mac, Windows, wherever you want it.
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Next, you're going to download Obsidian.
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So come to the second link in the description or whatever link it is.
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Download Obsidian for whatever platform you have.
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And now all we're going to do is we're going to come over to my free school, completely free, no strings attached.
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This is just the safest way for you guys to get this stuff.
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Come to classroom.
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Go to start here.
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Go to YouTube resources.
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You're going to download the KJ OS template.
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You're just going to click on it.
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You're going to click download or you can click this in the top right corner.
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And you will safely get my exact template folder.
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It's all it is.
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It's just a folder.
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And so once you've got that.
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We will actually drag this to the desktop.
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Here in zero seconds.
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There we go.
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KJ template one.
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Now all I want you to do is to rename this to whatever you're going to call your second brain.
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So we'll just say KJ's AI brain.
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There we go.
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And now we need a couple more things.
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And this is going to sound a little complicated, but I promise it's really not that bad.
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I have no coding experience.
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It just looks a little weird for those of us who haven't done this before.
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What we want is we want to install Claude Code into our terminal.
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So that we can put it inside of our Obsidian.
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So all you're going to do is you're going to figure out, you know, which software system you have.
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Or operating system, you're going to copy whichever command is yours.
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I'm going to copy it here.
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And then I'm going to open up the terminal.
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So the terminal looks scary, but I promise it's really not that bad.
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And I'm just going to paste what that told me right here.
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And then you're probably going to have to wait a second for it to actually download.
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And then I'll come back when it's actually done.
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All right, so it's saying Claude Code is successfully installed.
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If you want to check this, you can just type in Claude.
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And hit enter.
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And it's going to ask you if you trust it.
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And I do.
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So I'm going to run and there we go.
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Now I have Claude inside of my terminal.
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You can do all the same functionality as the actual app.
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It just looks a little bit different.
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It's more for coders.
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But I'll show you how we're going to use it to empower us as just normal workers.
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Now what I want you to do is we can minimize this for a second.
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I want you to run Obsidian.
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Now, what I want you to do is open folder as a vault.
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Like I said, Obsidian is just a cool way to view folders.
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It's that simple.
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But it's really powerful because of just how cool it is.
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We're going to click open.
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And I'm going to choose this brand new folder that we titled from the template, so KJ's AI brain.
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I'm going to open that up.
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I'm going to hit trust.
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This just gives you all of my plugins automatically.
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And the setup that I like to run with.
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And now we have the actual second brain right here.
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And I've given you guys a few things.
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I've given you guys a setup guide in case you want to just, um, follow along in written steps.
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Or if you get lost somewhere.
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And you want to just, you know, see the actual guide.
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I've given you all that here.
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So pretty cool.
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Now you've got everything in here, but as you can see, there's nothing in the Claude.md.
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So your instructions haven't been written.
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And that's because the only way this brain is powerful is if it's specific to you.
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My personalized brain won't help you that much.
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My structure will.
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But now we have to personalize it to you.
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So how we're going to do that is we have to get Claude in our Obsidian.
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Now, this is completely optional.
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You can just run the Claude app and you can select the KJ's AI brain as your project.
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If you want to learn how to do that, I have a whole co-work master class.
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All you do there is you just open up the brain in the app.
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And then you can use Obsidian and look on your other monitor and use Claude.
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But this is really transform my workflow by getting Claude in the actual Obsidian.
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And so now, I don't have to open a bunch of Claudes and get them confused.
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I just open up the projects that I'm running and Claude is right there.
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In each one.
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So let's go over how to do that.
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Now once again, I this is going to sound a little bit scary.
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I promise it's not that bad.
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So all we do is we come back up and there should be a link in the description.
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For this Claudian plugin.
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So all you're going to do is you're going to copy that link to the GitHub.
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Which is basically just like a way for people to download folders.
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Then you're going to open up the terminal again.
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And so if you closed it out, type Claude, get him back up.
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And we're going to say.
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Speaker A
Hey Claud, I want to install this Obsidian plugin, can you check this repo and make sure that it's clean of any kind of bad stuff.
14:54
Speaker A
And if it is clean, let's install it.
14:56
Speaker A
So this repo at the time of me recording this is completely clean.
15:00
Speaker A
And um, it works great for me.
15:02
Speaker A
Like I use it for all my stuff.
15:03
Speaker A
But it could be compromised in the future.
15:06
Speaker A
So just to be safe, I would always ask it to like, hey, is this clean?
15:10
Speaker A
And so I'm going to do that.
15:11
Speaker A
I'm going to pull back up this link and I'm going to copy it again.
15:15
Speaker A
We're going to come back to Claude.
15:17
Speaker A
We're going to paste it.
15:19
Speaker A
And now we're going to let him do his thing.
15:21
Speaker A
The first thing he should do is actually go through and make sure that there's nothing bad inside of it.
15:24
Speaker A
So he'll do that now.
15:27
Speaker A
And then he will ask for permission to basically go and install all the different things.
15:30
Speaker A
So let's go ahead and do that.
15:33
Speaker A
Also, Claude will ask you a bunch of questions if it can proceed.
15:36
Speaker A
So just like glance over it, make sure it's not doing anything crazy.
15:39
Speaker A
And just say yes.
15:41
Speaker A
Okay, so Claude has just reviewed the plugin.
15:44
Speaker A
And it has no issues found.
15:47
Speaker A
So pretty cool there.
15:48
Speaker A
And so let's install it.
15:50
Speaker A
I'm just going to say yes.
15:52
Speaker A
Okay, so I have multiple vaults.
15:54
Speaker A
And I'm going to tell it which one to install it in.
15:57
Speaker A
So I'm going to say KJ's AI brain, please.
16:01
Speaker A
And so that's what you want to do, you want to just tell it whichever, whatever you named your folder.
16:05
Speaker A
You want to tell it install it there.
16:08
Speaker A
Okay, successful.
16:10
Speaker A
Claudian is now installed.
16:12
Speaker A
It installed all the things that it needed.
16:14
Speaker A
It's also giving us the steps to actually set this up in Obsidian, which I'll show you guys in a second.
16:19
Speaker A
Now we're going to minimize that in case we need it later.
16:22
Speaker A
Let's come back to our Obsidian.
16:25
Speaker A
And let's get this thing underway.
16:27
Speaker A
So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm actually going to, um, restart Obsidian.
16:31
Speaker A
Just to make sure that the plugin is all good to go.
16:33
Speaker A
So I'll open it back up.
16:35
Speaker A
Now we want to get Claudian on this right-hand side.
16:37
Speaker A
And as we can see, he's already here.
16:39
Speaker A
Which is dope.
16:40
Speaker A
But in case he's not, what I want you guys to do is to come over here to, um, community plugins.
16:44
Speaker A
You want to hit refresh.
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Speaker A
Until you see Claudian.
16:48
Speaker A
Then you want to enable it.
16:50
Speaker A
And then go to settings.
16:51
Speaker A
And you can change all kind of settings.
16:54
Speaker A
I want you guys to take a second.
16:56
Speaker A
And go through here.
16:58
Speaker A
So I'm going to tell him to call me KJ.
17:01
Speaker A
Um, yeah, you can just personalize this to whatever you want.
17:04
Speaker A
Most of it, I don't touch.
17:06
Speaker A
I'll be completely honest.
17:08
Speaker A
But yeah, now I'm going to see if he's actually here.
17:10
Speaker A
And live.
17:11
Speaker A
So let's say yo.
17:13
Speaker A
What's going on?
17:15
Speaker A
Um, let's see, nice.
17:18
Speaker A
And so if this doesn't work for you, just screenshot whatever error you're getting.
17:22
Speaker A
Um, put that into a Claude chat in the app and just ask it to help you.
17:26
Speaker A
Mainly, you'll probably just have to restart Obsidian or, but you guys can figure it out with Claude.
17:30
Speaker A
That's the whole power of AI.
17:32
Speaker A
Just use it to help you.
17:33
Speaker A
And over here, you can see this is to start a new conversation.
17:36
Speaker A
And so it'll clean that chat.
17:38
Speaker A
This is to open up another tab.
17:40
Speaker A
So now I have two conversations and you can open up.
17:43
Speaker A
You can change how many of these you can allow at a time.
17:45
Speaker A
But you shouldn't need more than three guys.
17:48
Speaker A
I mean, this is already crazy to be able to do this.
17:50
Speaker A
And so I'm going to right-click and close those.
17:52
Speaker A
This just already attaches whatever you're working in to Claude.
17:56
Speaker A
You can just exit that out.
17:58
Speaker A
And it doesn't really matter either way.
18:00
Speaker A
So let's see if this is working.
18:01
Speaker A
If we come down here, you can change which model you're using.
18:04
Speaker A
I'm going to go for Opus.
18:05
Speaker A
But if you guys only have the $20 plan, probably go with Sonnet.
18:08
Speaker A
I'm going to change the effort to medium.
18:10
Speaker A
Because it's not that big of a deal.
18:12
Speaker A
And the last setting is this YOLO mode.
18:14
Speaker A
So YOLO mode basically means that it bypasses all permissions.
18:18
Speaker A
It won't ask before touching things.
18:19
Speaker A
If you want it to ask, just leave it on safe mode.
18:21
Speaker A
I honestly trust it.
18:23
Speaker A
So I'm going for YOLO.
18:25
Speaker A
So all you have to do now, and this is inside of the setup guide.
18:28
Speaker A
If you guys want to, to know.
18:30
Speaker A
Is to say, run the brain setup skill in the 05 skills folder.
18:33
Speaker A
So I'm just going to like, you know, copy this.
18:35
Speaker A
Because I'm lazy.
18:36
Speaker A
And we will do that.
18:38
Speaker A
Cool.
18:39
Speaker A
So it found the skill inside of this folder.
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Speaker A
And it's going to set it up for us.
18:43
Speaker A
If you guys are wondering how are these skills different from the actual downloaded Claude skills?
18:48
Speaker A
And they're pretty much the same thing.
18:50
Speaker A
I just prefer to have my skills as just markdown files.
18:54
Speaker A
Inside of my projects.
18:56
Speaker A
That way my team can run the same skills without having to download them.
18:58
Speaker A
I don't get all of them confused on which Claude is where.
19:01
Speaker A
I just keep them all right here.
19:02
Speaker A
And so if you actually, it's cool too.
19:04
Speaker A
Because you can edit the skills just way easier.
19:07
Speaker A
And so it's the same exact thing as actually making a skill.
19:10
Speaker A
You just tell it where to go to run it.
19:13
Speaker A
Okay, so during the setup, as you can see, Claude is now asking me questions.
19:18
Speaker A
And then it's going to set up everything for me.
19:20
Speaker A
So this will take probably five minutes or so.
19:22
Speaker A
What I'm going to do is I'm going to go through and answer all these questions.
19:26
Speaker A
And then I'll scroll through, I'll talk about it.
19:29
Speaker A
And we'll see what Claude actually sets up.
19:31
Speaker A
All right, so I answered the first question.
19:34
Speaker A
And it's kind of summarizing what it captured.
19:37
Speaker A
And now let's go for round two.
19:39
Speaker A
What do you want Claude to do?
19:40
Speaker A
So in this one, um, keep it kind of simple, just tell him that he's there to help you think.
19:45
Speaker A
But you can kind of answer these however you want.
19:47
Speaker A
And so let me do that real quick.
19:49
Speaker A
Okay, so I shot Claude off the answer to round two.
19:52
Speaker A
Also, if you guys want to know what voice to speech tool I use, it's called Super Whisper.
19:56
Speaker A
Um, I'll probably put a link in the description, I'm not like sponsoring anything.
20:00
Speaker A
But it's like five bucks a month.
20:02
Speaker A
There's even a free version.
20:04
Speaker A
But I just use the $5 one.
20:07
Speaker A
All right, so, um, round three.
20:09
Speaker A
Boundaries, how should Claude communicate with you?
20:11
Speaker A
I'm going to be blunt and direct.
20:14
Speaker A
Round three.
20:15
Speaker A
Um, okay.
20:17
Speaker A
Any kind of add-on.
20:20
Speaker A
So here I like to keep it simple.
20:22
Speaker A
I would just say, any file that you create.
20:25
Speaker A
Tag it with that parentheses C.
20:28
Speaker A
And don't edit any of my writings or notes without asking first, please.
20:33
Speaker A
Okay, round four.
20:34
Speaker A
Strength and weakness.
20:36
Speaker A
I'm going to keep this kind of simple here.
20:39
Speaker A
I am pretty good at building things, solving problems, and making content about it.
20:44
Speaker A
But sometimes I get caught up in trying to perfect stuff when I need to just put it out.
20:48
Speaker A
And get something out there that's actually going to help people.
20:51
Speaker A
Also, I want you to just try to poke holes in my thinking and make sure that I'm thinking on the right track.
20:55
Speaker A
Sometimes I'm a little bit too optimistic.
20:57
Speaker A
So sue me.
20:59
Speaker A
All right, it's way better to be a wrong optimist than a right pessimist.
21:02
Speaker A
I'll say that though, guys.
21:04
Speaker A
I can attest to that.
21:06
Speaker A
Okay, so round five.
21:08
Speaker A
Goals and current progress.
21:10
Speaker A
Okay, here you just want to talk about your goals.
21:12
Speaker A
I'm just going to keep this super simple.
21:14
Speaker A
Because my other one's more in depth.
21:16
Speaker A
But I want to basically make amazing content that helps people.
21:18
Speaker A
And then build a software that helps them even more.
21:22
Speaker A
So my content leads them to my incredible software where they can get a free trial, fall in love with it, and then pay for the service.
21:28
Speaker A
All right, so I would normally go much more in depth.
21:30
Speaker A
But once again, I don't want to make this a 40-minute video.
21:32
Speaker A
Um, just for you guys to hear my life story.
21:35
Speaker A
It's already being blunt and direct.
21:37
Speaker A
I'll talk about how I can fill this in later.
21:41
Speaker A
So for the sake of the video.
21:43
Speaker A
Okay, so round six.
21:45
Speaker A
Current projects.
21:47
Speaker A
We don't have any projects yet, and you won't either if you're just now setting this up.
21:51
Speaker A
So you can just say, I will set them up here in a little bit.
21:55
Speaker A
So do that.
21:57
Speaker A
And then we'll actually go into setting up the projects.
22:00
Speaker A
That's a whole different skill.
22:01
Speaker A
So pretty cool.
22:02
Speaker A
Now what Claude is doing is he is generating that Claude.md for you.
22:06
Speaker A
So if we look over here to the Claude, it's not filled in yet.
22:09
Speaker A
But you can see him going through and filling in all those sections that we talked about in the video where we went over how this stuff works.
22:15
Speaker A
So I'm just going to say dope.
22:17
Speaker A
Let's do it.
22:18
Speaker A
I don't know if he understands what dope means.
22:20
Speaker A
I guess he does.
22:21
Speaker A
Look at that, boom.
22:23
Speaker A
The power of AI.
22:24
Speaker A
So now your Claude is filled in.
22:26
Speaker A
You're ready to go.
22:27
Speaker A
And it's time to actually set up our first project.
22:30
Speaker A
So what I want to encourage you guys to do is take a section.
22:34
Speaker A
Uh, take some time and fill in the goals on your own.
22:37
Speaker A
So I left this empty on purpose.
22:39
Speaker A
I want you to just be honest with Claude and, uh, and give him what where you're trying to go.
22:44
Speaker A
What you're trying to do.
22:45
Speaker A
Because what I don't want you to do is to let the robot decide your fate.
22:48
Speaker A
That's not what AI is for.
22:50
Speaker A
AI is to help us achieve what God has already put on our hearts.
22:54
Speaker A
The vision God has given you, the the passions.
22:57
Speaker A
Start there on your own outside of Claude.
23:00
Speaker A
Give that to him and let him help you achieve it.
23:03
Speaker A
But don't let him determine your destiny.
23:05
Speaker A
Okay.
23:06
Speaker A
Um, at least that's what I suggest in my personal opinion.
23:09
Speaker A
Okay, so the next thing we're going to do is let's actually run a new project skill.
23:12
Speaker A
So we're going to do is we're going to come back to Claude.
23:14
Speaker A
And I'm going to say.
23:17
Speaker A
All right, Claude, let's run the new project skill.
23:20
Speaker A
Let's set up my first project.
23:22
Speaker A
Dope.
23:23
Speaker A
He is reading the skill.
23:25
Speaker A
And now he's going to ask us some questions.
23:26
Speaker A
So I'm going to say.
23:28
Speaker A
Finances.
23:30
Speaker A
Okay, now he's asking me what is this project?
23:33
Speaker A
I want to set up a simple system.
23:35
Speaker A
Where I can give you all of my bank statements and then we can basically submit a financial report for myself.
23:40
Speaker A
To see where I'm spending money.
23:42
Speaker A
How I can save money.
23:44
Speaker A
And, uh, just what happened financially that that past month.
23:47
Speaker A
All right, cool.
23:48
Speaker A
He says, what does shipped look like?
23:50
Speaker A
So I would love to have a system where I can drop in all of my statements and reports.
23:56
Speaker A
We also spend some time figuring out what is a good budget for me every month.
24:00
Speaker A
Based on like where I'm at in my life.
24:02
Speaker A
And then we can get a report back of what I did well that month and what I need to work on next month.
24:06
Speaker A
And I want to be able to see it in a way that's super clean.
24:09
Speaker A
Who else is involved?
24:10
Speaker A
I'm just saying no one.
24:12
Speaker A
What's the process?
24:14
Speaker A
Um, I think I should be able to get my own bank statements.
24:16
Speaker A
Drop the PDFs in a folder for you.
24:18
Speaker A
Then you process them based on a predetermined kind of budget that we set up beforehand.
24:21
Speaker A
So the first things we'll probably have to do is actually set up that budget and research what would be good for me and my stage of life.
24:26
Speaker A
And then you give me a report back and then we can have another skill or something that analyzes over the months.
24:31
Speaker A
Like what things I need to work on on a macro scale.
24:34
Speaker A
Okay, cool.
24:35
Speaker A
So that might be a little bit too complicated to start with.
24:37
Speaker A
But, uh, we'll let him rock with it.
24:40
Speaker A
So set up the budget.
24:42
Speaker A
Drop statements.
24:43
Speaker A
Process and categorize.
24:44
Speaker A
Monthly report.
24:45
Speaker A
And then analysis.
24:47
Speaker A
Dope.
24:48
Speaker A
Wow, he nailed that.
24:50
Speaker A
Um, we can worry about that as we go.
24:53
Speaker A
Let's just kind of set up the project for now.
24:56
Speaker A
You see how crazy this is, guys.
24:57
Speaker A
I mean, you can start solving massive problems in your life.
25:01
Speaker A
Right here.
25:02
Speaker A
Just off the rip.
25:03
Speaker A
Which is insane.
25:05
Speaker A
So now what Claude's going to do is he's going to take this project template that we've set up.
25:08
Speaker A
And he's going to create this project.
25:10
Speaker A
Right before our eyes.
25:11
Speaker A
So you can see, he's just created the folder.
25:13
Speaker A
Finances.
25:15
Speaker A
Now he's created all of the folders.
25:17
Speaker A
Everything.
25:19
Speaker A
So in here, you can see kind of the inputs, the process and the outputs.
25:22
Speaker A
You can see like the system.
25:25
Speaker A
So if we need to like write any, I don't know, lines of code or whatever, he'll put that in there.
25:28
Speaker A
If we build any skills for this project, we'll put it in the 05 skills.
25:32
Speaker A
The Claude.md is done.
25:33
Speaker A
It's all here.
25:34
Speaker A
So now he has his role in this project.
25:37
Speaker A
Which is epic.
25:38
Speaker A
It's so sick.
25:39
Speaker A
And you can update this as you go along.
25:41
Speaker A
But, uh, it's just a way for you guys to start literally full projects.
25:44
Speaker A
Right there.
25:46
Speaker A
And so now that this product is done, how do we actually go work in it?
25:50
Speaker A
I'm going to show you two things.
25:52
Speaker A
I'm going to show you how to actually change the template.
25:55
Speaker A
And then I'm going to show you how to open up in the second layer.
25:58
Speaker A
So let's go do that right now.
25:59
Speaker A
So all you want to do is click on this thing down here.
26:03
Speaker A
So KJ second brain.
26:04
Speaker A
Go to manage vaults.
26:05
Speaker A
And you're going to open folder as a vault.
26:08
Speaker A
We're going to do that.
26:10
Speaker A
We're going to go into our main kind of brain here.
26:12
Speaker A
So KJ's AI brain.
26:13
Speaker A
We're going to go to projects.
26:15
Speaker A
And we're going to open up that project as its own file.
26:18
Speaker A
So what I'm going to do first, I'm going to open up the project template.
26:20
Speaker A
Um, I probably should have showed you guys this earlier, but this is pretty simple.
26:24
Speaker A
If you want to change the appearance.
26:26
Speaker A
Or how anything works.
26:28
Speaker A
All you have to do is open up the project template and change it in there.
26:32
Speaker A
So I can change the colors.
26:34
Speaker A
Let's say that I want to go for.
26:37
Speaker A
I don't know, I want to go for a cool orange.
26:39
Speaker A
I can do that.
26:40
Speaker A
It changes the buttons.
26:41
Speaker A
Um, you can change the themes.
26:43
Speaker A
I'm not going to show you guys how to do the themes.
26:46
Speaker A
I, it's kind of a waste of time.
26:48
Speaker A
I just, I just work.
26:50
Speaker A
But you can change plugins, change themes.
26:53
Speaker A
And that way, if you like a certain setup of plugins.
26:56
Speaker A
Let's say you want to add the calendar plugin or daily notes plugin.
27:00
Speaker A
You can do that on the template and now every time you make a new project.
27:04
Speaker A
With the Claude skill in the first layer, it'll copy over all that stuff.
27:08
Speaker A
So you don't have to waste all that time setting up all your things.
27:12
Speaker A
So pretty cool.
27:14
Speaker A
And then whenever you're done, you just go to the next video.
27:17
Speaker A
So it's cool.
27:18
Speaker A
And then you can go back to your project here.
27:21
Speaker A
You can go to your project notes.
27:23
Speaker A
You can see all your notes.
27:24
Speaker A
You can go to different projects.
27:26
Speaker A
So here's the project that I use to research for this exact video you're watching.
27:30
Speaker A
Here's how I'm learning YouTube lighting.
27:33
Speaker A
It's awesome.
27:34
Speaker A
And you can archive videos in your signal.
27:37
Speaker A
And kind of after you watch them, they'll be in here later.
27:40
Speaker A
If you ever want to come back and check them out again.
27:43
Speaker A
Incredible.
27:45
Speaker A
All right, so getting back on track.
27:48
Speaker A
Here is the Signal app project.
27:50
Speaker A
So it all starts with the inputs.
27:52
Speaker A
So I have ideas.
27:53
Speaker A
The entire ideas for the app and their features.
27:56
Speaker A
I just will throw them into the project.
27:58
Speaker A
So the development board.
28:00
Speaker A
So me and my, um, co-founder, my developer with me, we have a board, which basically allows us to, uh, we have a board plugin.
28:05
Speaker A
Sorry, which allows us to implement all these changes on a board in Obsidian.
28:10
Speaker A
And I use Claude Dispatch to add ideas if I'm not at my computer.
28:15
Speaker A
And then in the process, I will go into Claude in my Obsidian.
28:18
Speaker A
And I will have him give me different designs and features for me to test.
28:22
Speaker A
So every single thing that you saw on that app, it was designed me and Claude Code.
28:27
Speaker A
Which is crazy.
28:28
Speaker A
Crazy, I would just ask it, you know what?
28:31
Speaker A
Give me an add button or make these cards look a little bit.
28:34
Speaker A
I don't know, sexier.
28:36
Speaker A
Like figure it out.
28:37
Speaker A
And then I would test it out.
28:40
Speaker A
And then I would put the actual spec to go live on the website.
28:44
Speaker A
In my Obsidian.
28:45
Speaker A
Which is synced with my co-founder, my developer.
28:48
Speaker A
And then he uses Claude Code, multiple instances of Claude Code.
28:52
Speaker A
To actually design the spec into the live site.
28:55
Speaker A
Which you just saw.
28:56
Speaker A
And that gives us the output.
28:58
Speaker A
Which is an improved app.
29:00
Speaker A
And, uh, we make money from it.
29:01
Speaker A
Which is awesome as well.
29:03
Speaker A
And the feedback for this system.
29:05
Speaker A
Is basically just user feedback.
29:07
Speaker A
It's metrics.
29:09
Speaker A
It's also, um, like here's me giving Kaden some feedback from using it myself daily.
29:13
Speaker A
And, uh, yeah, I'll show you guys what this looks like inside of Obsidian.
29:16
Speaker A
But this is the actual like system and everything.
29:19
Speaker A
So here's the real Signal app project.
29:21
Speaker A
So I have folders for different parts of the application.
29:24
Speaker A
So for onboarding, finding, watching, capturing, etc.
29:28
Speaker A
I have a folder called app design.
29:30
Speaker A
Where I've designed all of the features you see here's the shipped features.
29:34
Speaker A
Here's the fonts that I tested out.
29:36
Speaker A
Here's all the old stuff.
29:38
Speaker A
Um, a big queue of changes.
29:40
Speaker A
So super cool.
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Also, we have outputs.
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This is where I actually will test the features that I'm designing.
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And so if we look here for the add click border test.
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You will see.
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This is where I tested out what the borders looked like.
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So I would test it out on different thumbnails.
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This was all done by Claude.
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In this project.
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Which is insane.
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Here's the Claude.md, which basically just tells it.
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Hey, you were helping KJ and Kaden actually think through and design this app.
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But you're not going to code it into the website.
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Kaden's Claude's going to do that.
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And so my knows that it's only here to help me design and test the actual code.
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In HTML files.
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So pretty crazy.
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Here's the folder structure.
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All that good stuff.
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I won't show you our development board.
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Because we have some secret stuff coming.
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But that's where it is.
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Yeah.
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Let's go on to the next use case.
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Which is probably a little bit more applicable to you guys.
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All right, so this is my project for my email marketing client.
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And so every single month, I write these marketing emails, which gets his list to actually book sales calls with him and his team.
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And, uh, they pay me very kindly for this.
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So the emails have been very nice to them.
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And they continue paying.
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So that is awesome.
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Make around 2K a month from these emails.
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And I've already made an entire free course on this in my school.
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So I'm not going to go in depth.
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Because I've already done it.
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But basically, the way it works is I have a skill which gives me email ideas.
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Based on my client, his context.
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And then also on just news and stuff like this.
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Um, and I've I've given you guys these skills in the school.
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So don't worry.
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Then once I have an idea, I'll add my thoughts.
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And it will run the, you know, valuable insight email skill.
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Or the sales email skill.
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And then it will give me a rough draft.
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And I'll tell it kind of what the call to action is.
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So where are we going to take them?
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What's the goal of the email?
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And then it will actually write it.
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I will review it.
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And also a sub agent will review it.
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And then I make the finishing touches and I ship it.
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So like I said, check out the free course on this.
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Completely free.
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I'll go over how to make the skills, how to do the ingredients for the skills.
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All that stuff.
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But a little bit too deep for this video.
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Okay, so now moving on to the main YouTube channel.
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How I made the video you're watching right now.
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Let's go over how this all works.
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So it starts out with an input.
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So I'll have an idea for a video.
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So like, I'll build something cool and I'll think, you know what?
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I want to show this to my audience.
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I.e., the second brain.
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I will then either add it to my ideas folder.
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Or I will use dispatch to add it from my phone.
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To my folder.
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You can see here, we start with the video ideas.
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And here I just have a bunch of random ideas.
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That I'm going to, um, flush out.
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And maybe use.
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Then what I'll do is I will use Vid IQ plus AI to validate the idea.
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And packaging with demand, basically, I'll see, is there actually people searching for what I want to make?
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Is there demand for it?
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And then I will use my app to find, watch, and take notes on every top competitor's video.
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And I don't say that lightly, guys.
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Uh, here's the actual project from this video that you're seeing right now.
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I went through and watched every video I could possibly find.
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There's some in my archive as well.
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On just second brains.
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And so I've deleted a lot of them.
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But every single video I went through and watched, which was crazy.
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And Signal helped me find them almost immediately.
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And watch them super fast.
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So, yeah, another signal plug.
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And then here's where it gets even cooler.
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I then used one of my skills inside of this project.
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To analyze the successful packaging, the elements, the keywords, the titles, everything.
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So here's actually what that skill looks like.
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So first, it gives me all of my direct competitors.
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So these are the videos on second brains.
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Then it gives me some packaging from similar stuff.
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This might be videos about Obsidian or Claude individually.
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So not direct competitors to what I'm doing.
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But they might have good thumbnail ideas.
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Then it gives me the keyword analysis.
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So what are the sweet spot keywords, what has the lowest competition and the highest amount of search traffic?
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So there they go.
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There's how what I use for the title.
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Um.
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And then it gives me the best keywords for the title.
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And so what does well in the title?
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Which is cool.
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Then it gives me good title structures.
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And then it compares all the thumbnail elements.
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So it tells me, here's what's a good thing to use in the thumbnail.
34:01
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Then it ranks my competitors titles.
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And then it gives me fire title ideas.
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So if you're looking at this, I probably used something very similar to this title.
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Um, yeah.
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It's just pretty crazy.
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This thing is really good.
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And then it just gives me a thumbnail review checklist.
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And also, I forgot to mention, it gives me all the tags for my videos.
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Um, automatically.
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So I don't even have to like write the tags out anymore.
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I can just copy and paste it straight into the YouTube thing.
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So pretty crazy.
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So from there, what do I do?
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Well, I create the body content with Claude, so he's helping me write out these videos that you're seeing right now.
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He's not actually writing them.
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But I'm asking him his thoughts, how do I structure stuff, what sounds good in the intro, what do I include, what do I not include?
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I made a video about on my second channel of how I actually do this.
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If you want to see me do it live.
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So, yeah, pretty cool.
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Then my Obsidian is synced with my editor Caleb.
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Shout out to you.
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I love you.
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My BFF forever.
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He uses Claude to help edit the videos.
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And so all the little like pauses and cuts, he uses AI to just do that.
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So that he can focus on the sick intros.
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So shout out to Caleb.
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And then I upload the video using the titles, the thumbnails, the elements and tags that Claude gave me.
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And, uh, yeah.
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It makes for some pretty insane videos.
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And just in the like time it took me to make this Miro, this video went from like 68,000 to 83,000 in like a day.
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Which is just nuts.
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And then the feedback from these videos are the metrics.
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Um, my personal thoughts.
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The lessons that I find from Signal.
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So I improved the lighting between last video and this video using Signal.
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That's how I learned all this stuff in like a day.
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Incredible.
35:53
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All right, so this is my simplest, yet extremely valuable and useful use case.
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And so I coach a couple business owners, I consult them on how to use AI in their businesses.
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Extremely valuable for them.
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And me because they get to automate a lot of their business.
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Without having to know all this stuff that I've had to learn the hard way.
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I'm able to teach it to them quickly.
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And so in here, I manage these clients that I'm working with.
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These business owners.
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I have my templates for my call notes.
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My templates for my school header.
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Um, the system.
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Then I have just the skills that I'm making.
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So right now it's very clean there bones.
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But Claude knows inside of here, he's just here to help me do a better job of consulting with these one-on-one clients.
36:30
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And it keeps everything nice and clean.
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So I'll show you kind of what that looks like.
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Inside one of my clients folder will.
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We just started actually today.
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Which is exciting.
36:39
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Um, I have the call notes template.
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Which I can just copy and then fill in immediately after a call.
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And then I have an example of what one of these calls looks like.
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And so here, let me actually zoom in a little bit.
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It's just.
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Goals for the month of working together.
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For this first month.
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The call agenda.
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The post call notes.
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And then the recording links.
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And then I actually post the transcript, which is sick from Loom straight into here.
37:02
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And then we have to get some time stamps.
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To actually make the school recording.
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So what I do is I just come in here.
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And I'll be like, you know what, Claude, let's let's do this.
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Let's start a new conversation.
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Can you use the skill in the skills folder to add time stamps to this call note?
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And so now what Claude is doing is he is using this skill.
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And he's going to actually create all of these time stamps for me.
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Right here.
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That I can copy.
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Straight into the school.
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Send to my client.
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And they feel like, you know what, this guy actually cares.
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And he's making things super valuable for me.
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And, uh, yeah, let's go finish this up with my bonus tips.
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And I'll send you guys on your way.
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To go make some amazing stuff with this second brain.
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All right, if you watched this far in the video, I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
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And I want to hopefully bless you with these bonus tips that not many people talk about when it comes to AI.
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This should help you actually use this technology to provide value to the market.
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Solve your own problems.
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And so, number one is simply this.
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The market only cares about outputs, not processes.
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And this can go both ways.
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And so if you have clients who want this result and you use AI to automate the entire process.
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Guess what, you can still charge the high price without doing any of the work.
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That's the power of where AI comes in.
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But the biggest danger that I see with most people.
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Even myself.
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Is we like to automate things and it feels so good.
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It feels so cool.
38:30
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But then the output just gets bad.
38:32
Speaker A
So people will automate their thumbnails, automate their scripting.
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But the quality doesn't stay high.
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Speaker A
It just turns into slop.
38:40
Speaker A
And the market doesn't care how little effort you put into something.
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Speaker A
Or how automated it was if the output is bad.
38:46
Speaker A
No one wants another bad vibe coded app.
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They want a great output.
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And that's what you have to use AI for.
38:52
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And so part of the process is knowing what to automate and what not to automate.
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And so if you automate something and the quality drops hard, you probably shouldn't automate it yet.
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Until you can automate it and the quality stay high.
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Speaker A
Then you should probably do it yourself and automate a different part of the process.
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With the quality doesn't drop off.
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And the real value for being legit here.
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Is by outsourcing everything that doesn't really matter to AI.
39:20
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So that you can focus on the things that do matter.
39:24
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So the thumbnail for this video, I spent like eight hours on.
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All manually.
39:29
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But AI did the research so that I could actually spend that much time designing the dang thing.
39:33
Speaker A
And so that's really the secret.
39:35
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Is getting your time back.
39:38
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So then you can apply your human creativity and judgment to more valuable parts of the process.
39:43
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And number three, AI is a skill.
39:45
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Learning how to use this technology.
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Comes with so many little quirks and nuances.
39:52
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And no one has 10,000 hours in it yet.
39:55
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Which is awesome.
39:56
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The field is wide open.
39:58
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But the best way to learn is not by watching these videos.
40:02
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Maybe watch, you know, one of these once.
40:04
Speaker A
But then go do it.
40:06
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So don't sit here and watch this video over and over again.
40:08
Speaker A
Don't go look for other videos.
40:10
Speaker A
Stop what you're doing.
40:12
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Go test out everything you've just learned.
40:15
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Because those are the people that are going to get ahead quickly.
40:18
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Those who are actually talking with the robots, learning how they think, learning how to collaborate.
40:23
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And gaining the skill of AI.
40:26
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I see it from working with different business owners.
40:30
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The ones who are the best at AI.
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Have just been using it longer.
40:34
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That's that simple.
40:35
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You just need time in the game.
40:37
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And number four, last but not least.
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Have fun.
40:41
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This is one of the coolest times to be alive.
40:43
Speaker A
I'm serious.
40:45
Speaker A
Besides being in Jerusalem when Jesus was alive, or besides maybe like the internet.
40:51
Speaker A
This is awesome.
40:53
Speaker A
Like this is brand new.
40:54
Speaker A
This is going to change the entire world.
40:56
Speaker A
And some people are like all doom and gloom about it.
40:59
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But hey.
41:00
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That's in God's hands.
41:01
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All I know is that this stuff is really cool.
41:03
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And it's so much fun.
41:05
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And so start with having fun.
41:07
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Don't try to like conquer the whole world with AI.
41:10
Speaker A
Just have a fun project.
41:12
Speaker A
Try to make it.
41:13
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And see what happens.
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You have an idea for an app.
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Do it.
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See what, see what happens.
41:17
Speaker A
You know, just just have fun.
41:19
Speaker A
It's awesome.
41:20
Speaker A
It's awesome.
41:21
Speaker A
So I hope you guys enjoyed.
41:23
Speaker A
I love you all.
41:24
Speaker A
Thank you all for watching these videos.
41:26
Speaker A
If you know someone who this could benefit, please share it with them.
41:30
Speaker A
You know.
41:31
Speaker A
Add value to their life if you found value from this.
41:33
Speaker A
And, uh, hopefully I'll see you guys inside of the Signal app.
41:36
Speaker A
I'll see you guys inside of the school soon.
41:38
Speaker A
And, yeah, take care.
Topics:AI second brainObsidianClaude AIproductivitynote-takinggoal planningtask automationdigital assistantproject managementknowledge management

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the purpose of the two-layer system in the AI second brain?

The two-layer system separates strategy and planning (layer one) from task execution (layer two). Layer one uses Claude as a thinking partner to clarify goals and plans, while layer two focuses on completing specific projects with Claude acting as a digital employee.

How does Claude get personalized context about my goals and notes?

Claude receives personalized context through Claude.md files in each folder, which contain instructions about your goals, notes, journals, and other relevant data, allowing it to act as an informed thinking partner.

Can this AI second brain system help someone without software experience?

Yes, the system is designed to be accessible even for users without prior software experience, enabling them to build projects, manage goals, and increase productivity using Claude and Obsidian.

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