Obsidian + Claude Code: The Second Brain Setup That Actually Works

In this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to build your second brain using claw code and the power of obsidian. And specifically for my use

obsidian. And specifically for my use case, I use obsidian here to manage different projects. And furthermore, I

different projects. And furthermore, I was able to use claw code here as like a AI assistant here to manage my notes.

Right here, you can see I have bunch of Obsidian CLI skills which will basically help us to create better Obsidian notes.

And right here you can see one of the skill that I created called the on boarding projects which can help me to take any data source that I have like Gmails and local files have clock here to organize summarize those informations

and store that inside of my Obsidians using the Obsidian skills that I'm going to show you in later on this video and pretty much you can see that we can use CLCO here with the power of Obsidian to basically help us to answer any questions perform any actions on our

notes. So with that being said that's

notes. So with that being said that's what we're going to cover in this video.

If you're interested let's get into this. Now before we continue, I recently

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you're ready to level up, make sure you jump right in and I'll see you in a community. Now, because Obsidian here is

community. Now, because Obsidian here is not free, the free version here doesn't allow you to sync notes or do the version control. And that's why the

version control. And that's why the first step we're going to do here is basically have Obsidian here to connect it with our GitHub by first creating a repository and any changes that we're making in our Obsidian notes, we're going to push that onto our GitHub repository. This way we're going to have

repository. This way we're going to have a version control and also completely free for cloud storage. So in this case, let's take a look how we can do this first. All right, so to get started,

first. All right, so to get started, first thing first going to do here is make sure to create our GitHub account.

And simply all we have to do here just click on new right here to create a new repository. And this will basically

repository. And this will basically going to be a folder. We're going to dump all the data here inside of our repository in GitHub. So that we have the right version control and we can also be able to change the visibility.

So here I'm going to change that to be private because I don't want anyone else here to see the brain because you only want to use this for your cloud storage and version control. So in this case I'm going to give it a name for the repository and I'm just going to call it

the er brain and simply once that's done I will just click on create new repository. And now you can see we have

repository. And now you can see we have a repository created inside of our GitHub. So once we have our repository

GitHub. So once we have our repository store, now what we had to do here is we want to make sure to clone this inside of our local machine so that we can be able to add any local files here onto our GitHub for cloud storage and version control. And to do so, if you're really

control. And to do so, if you're really new to terminal and you're not really a developer, I highly recommend you to install GitHub desktop where you can be able to manage the entire version control and the cloud storage in a desktop graphical user interface rather

than just using the terminal. So for

demonstration, I'm just going to download this onto my local machine. Now

once you have your GitHub desktop app downloaded on your local machine, this is what it looks like. So all we have to do here just make sure to select the repository that you just created. For

example, mine is called the Eric Techch brain. So there's one called Eric Techch

brain. So there's one called Eric Techch brain. And we can see that currently it

brain. And we can see that currently it is private. So I'm just going to choose

is private. So I'm just going to choose that and be able to clone this onto our local machine. So I'm just going to

local machine. So I'm just going to click on clone. And it's telling you exactly where you can clone this. So you

can see that the local file path here is actually inside of documents. But if you want to change that, for example, I want to change that to be in my desktop. I

can go to change that and click on select. And then here, all I do here,

select. And then here, all I do here, just click on clone. and it's going to clone that repository here on our desktop folder in our local machine. So

now you can see we have the repository clone inside of our desktop folder. The

next thing we're going to do here is make sure to have Obsidian installed on our local machine as well. So now if I were to head over to the Obsidian download page, simply all I have to do here is click on download and it's going to download this app on our local machine. So I'm going to download this

machine. So I'm going to download this for my Mac version. All right. So now

once I have download this on my Mac OS, the next thing we're going to do here is make sure to open a folder as fault. So

I'm going to click on open. And then

here I'm going to click on desktop. Then

we're going to click on the repository that we just cloned and click on open.

And then here you can see this is the notebook that we have for our Eric techch brain. So now once we have this

techch brain. So now once we have this open here you can see on the right this is the entire erite techch folder. So

anything that we write on the obsidian is going to be reflected inside of this folder. So for example if I were to

folder. So for example if I were to create a new note for example here you can see this is the note and right here on the right you can see we have untitled MD file. So now if I were to type in for example Eric tech and that's going to be the file name. You can see

that has changed reflected right away.

And if I were to create a folder in Obsidian, it's going to do the same thing here as well. So next one I'm going to show you here is basically commit the changes onto our GitHub so that we have a cloud backup. So right

here you can see if I were to open the GitHub desktop app. Currently on the left, you can see we have six changes on the files and simply I'm just going to give the message summary on exactly what are the changes that we have just made.

I'm just going to say this is the initial summary. You can see this is the

initial summary. You can see this is the initial commit and commit this. Then

click on push here to basically push that changes onto the remote which is our GitHub repository. So now if I were to click on the history here, you can see this is the commit that we just committed and now has that changed. So

if I want to revert it back, I can do so. So now if I were to head over to the

so. So now if I were to head over to the GitHub repository browser here, you can see this is the error type ring and right here you can see this is my first initial commit which basically means that we have successfully saved the changes onto our GitHub repository here.

Now obviously making changes and manually have to commit this is going to be really painful. And you might be asking well is there any ways that we can be able to automatically commit this onto our GitHub repository? And the

answer here is yes. So now if I would head over to the Obsidian here, all we have to do here just click on the gear icon. And basically if I were to click

icon. And basically if I were to click on the community plugins and click on the turn on community plugins right here. Now we can be able to browse a

here. Now we can be able to browse a community plugins. And there's actually

community plugins. And there's actually a plugin here that can actually help us to automatically commit the changes that we have onto our GitHub repository. So

simply all I have to do here just click on browse. And then the plugin here is

on browse. And then the plugin here is called git. So right here you can see

called git. So right here you can see this the plugin which integrates the git version here with automatically backup and other advanced features. So if I were to click on this right here, you can see you can be able to learn more about this from this open source repository. But simply if you want to

repository. But simply if you want to install this, all you have to do is just click on install right here. So right

here you can see the repository here is fully installed and then simply click on enable. Then we're going to click on

enable. Then we're going to click on options. And right here you can see

options. And right here you can see there's a feature called auto commit and sync after stopping file edits which basically means that after we stop editing the files in the Obsidian, it will basically start to commit the

changes that we have onto GitHub. So

simply if we were to enable this feature and all we had to do here just set an interval on how often should it be able to sync the changes right it could be like every minutes right so after we stop changing or after we stop editing

the files in Obsidian it's going to automatically do that with a set interval so for example it could be like 1 minutes so that's what I'm going to set right here and furthermore if we scroll down there's also a feature called pull on startup which basically

automatically pull the latest changes from Obsidian when it starts so in this case I'm just going to enable this so for example maybe you're making changes from device one and then you want to open your device two here to basically

sync the changes. This will basically allow you to have that option. So make

sure to pull on startup. Okay. So now if I were to test the changes here, if I were to close this and let's say if I were to make some changes for example, right? So in this case, I'm going to say

right? So in this case, I'm going to say example, right? And then be able to give

example, right? And then be able to give some like words here and then you can see here that after 1 minute, it has committed six files here automatically onto our GitHub page. So now if I were to head over to the version control, you

can see that we have all backups. So

this was is committed automatically through the uh obsidian. And if I were to head over to the repository and just refresh now, you can see we have the example that default that we just created. And right here you can see this

created. And right here you can see this the changes that we have. So now let's say if I were to edit something, for example, say hello and click on commit and click on uh changes, right? So now

you can see we have some additional changes added onto this MD file. So now

you can see if I were to restart the Obsidian, it has automatically pulled the changes. Now we can see that we have

the changes. Now we can see that we have hello here inside of our notebook. So

now once we have our obsidian notebook set up, the next thing we're going to take a look at is how we can be able to connect it with our large language model like claw code. And to make this process easier, we're going to use the Obsidian skill which basically teach our AI agent

here to use all the capabilities that Obsidian has like the markdown base JSON canvas all through the Obsidian CLI. And

of course, if you want to have your CLI for Obsidian setup, make sure to head over to your settings for the Obsidian and just click on the general. And here

inside of general, there's the events and then we have the command line interface. So make sure to toggle this

interface. So make sure to toggle this on. It'll basically allow you to

on. It'll basically allow you to interact Obsidian with CLI. Now once we have the CLI enabled, the next thing we're going to take a look at is how we can be able to set up the Obsidian skills. So right here you can see simply

skills. So right here you can see simply if we want to install this, we're just going to copy the commands right here to install this either through the marketplace or the MPX skills. So now

once you have this installed, the next thing we're going to take a look at is how we can be able to use that for a practical use case. So what I can do here is I can be able to onboard those data onto claw code and claw code here is going to trigger the obsidian skills

that we just installed and it's going to help us to organize and summarize everything into one single location. So

in this case let me show you exactly how I would do that. All right. So to do so here you can see I basically created a skill called onboard projects and essentially what it does here is that it will collect data from my external Gmail

right like basically my all my emails from a particular projects and also for the internal files right let's say if I have bunch of project context on my local drive I can also be able to upload

that here for this particular skill or any text that I want to paste it will basically use the existing obsidian skills right like the markdown the base the COI here to create everything okay and this is the entire skill structures

it will basically uses some of the scripts that I created here like for example getting a email label right getting the messages getting the threads from Gmail and then be able to fetch those things and download the

attachments using this part of the skills here and it will basically try to output it as the vault here. So you can see it's going to output as a project folder and here inside of this projects

folder here we have a projects.base base

which is basically a table where we keep track of all the projects that we have and then we also have the project name.

So that's basically whatever project like we have like ABC projects we're going to have the overview exactly okay what is this project is about and then we also have the conversation log like okay what is the conversation summary

chronological order for all the conversation that we have going on with this project right so that we know exactly what's happening and we also have the links on exactly okay what are some external links and then we also most importantly we have the

documentations so there are some documents that could be like static file like NDA or agreements or contracts that we need to kept inside of the agreements that cannot be summarized, right? So,

some files here shouldn't be summarized.

Some of information here should be summarized and condense it down into the conversation log so that this way it's much more easier for me to juggle multiple projects at the same time. So,

you can see here that this is the entire five-step workflow on exactly how the skill does. Right here, you can see we

skill does. Right here, you can see we first try to create a project. So, if

the project exists already, we might just want to update or import more data onto that project and that's it. If it's

a new project, we're just going to create a new project here. And then we also have collecting sources here. here.

So let's say we're going to collect like Gmail internal and also the paste text or screenshots. We're also going to

or screenshots. We're also going to collect that as well. And it's going to process and see if if it's existing projects, we're going to see if there's any duplicates. And also if it's going

any duplicates. And also if it's going to be new projects, we're going to filter out if it's like static file, conversations, references, key details.

We're going to put them into the right place. Then furthermore, it's going to

place. Then furthermore, it's going to auto extract the profile. So extract

like the wiki links, the industry, and be able to update the overview.md file.

And by the end of it, it's also going to generate a summary on exactly what are the key events for this project, what is the timeline and also what is the import stats. So then you can see I basically

stats. So then you can see I basically instructed to create that skill and now we can be able to use it to on board projects much more faster onto obsidian.

So now if I were to restart my clock session, I should now be able to use this skill called onboard projects. And

now if I were to simply trigger this, it should prompt me exactly what should we call this projects. So right here you can see it's going to check the current state of our current project folder and then there's no project exist. What's

the name of the project you would like to set up? So, for example, I'm just going to call like map B, right? For

example, like it doesn't matter which name you're you're using. You can see it's going to just create the project structures called map B. And here you can see it's going to create the project dashboard creating the conversation log

and then it also has create the project base which is how we're going to query the project status for all the projects that we have. Right? So far, you can see we have set up the these links right the overview, the conversation log links,

documents and also the projects.base

base which is a dashboard. And now what we need to do here is we need to be able to input the data source, right? Maybe

you have like external like Gmail label where this label here contains bunch of emails that you have with this projects or and also if you have like internal files, right? Like PDF, docs, contracts

files, right? Like PDF, docs, contracts from your local drive, you can be able to upload it here. And also if there's any text you want to paste, any screenshots that the AI here can extract from, we can also be able to paste it here into this particular skill. and

it's going to help us to analyze everything and aggregate everything into this project folder structure that we have here. So in this case I'm first

have here. So in this case I'm first going to upload the internal local file path that I have as well as the entire Gmail label link on exactly where it contains all the data source. So in this case I'm just going to enter this and it's going to fetch that automatically

for us. Okay. So now you can see all the

for us. Okay. So now you can see all the local files here has been processed and now for Gmail here the scripts are not configured because for Gmail label here we need the uh credentials. So right

here you can see it tells you exactly how you can get the credentials like Google cloud console enable Gmail API and also create the OOTH credentials right there. So basically you're just

right there. So basically you're just going to download the JSON once after you create the OOTH 2 credentials. So if

I were to open this here you can see there's the folder called Gmail credentials you're just going to save your credentials here right here right that's it and essentially here you can see from the MV file it actually

referenced this particular folder for the credentials and tokens here to be able to fetch those emails here using those scripts. Okay, so that's exactly

those scripts. Okay, so that's exactly how it works. So now you can see everything is all done and here is what is imported. So we have five files here

is imported. So we have five files here are imported to this particular projects for the documents like the service agreements, the proposal like the project plans, uh freelancer brief, all those kind of things, right? And then we

also have the Gmail which is all the emails that we have fetched from the entire threat conversation from December all the way to April which is in chronological order. And also here you

chronological order. And also here you can see this the entire key takeaways for this entire project. So as you can see at the end of it, this is what the project has created. So this is the map B. Obviously, I don't want to show you

B. Obviously, I don't want to show you the project from the client. But here

you can see this is the demo project which I actually create a clone version of this but have clock here to basically create kind of like the anomous version of this project. But you can see that this is the entire overview, right? You

can see it has the properties, the overview. And then here you can see we

overview. And then here you can see we also have the info card exactly what's the project profile and also the scope.

So phase one, phase 2, phase three and then the text stack. And we also have the conversation log. This is going to be the conversation tracking which tracks the conversation from the initial like the discovery call all the way to

contract sign weeks one to week three and then the live demo system goes live uh scope of expansion and also the phase one handoff is being summarized and condensed inside of the conversation log

which you can see here. So you can see that it's really powerful and if we scroll all the way down there's also some action item. So respond to clients and deliver phase two and phase three which we can see here. Okay, so this is exactly how that works. Now,

furthermore, we also have the projects.base file which keep track of

projects.base file which keep track of all the status for all the projects that we have. But we can also be able to use

we have. But we can also be able to use clo here combining with the context that we have in our notebook and be able to craft anything. Right? For example, I

craft anything. Right? For example, I can be able to craft a response based on the projects that we have. For example,

this demo project uh can you be able to help me to tell me what's the current status of this project is and can you tell me exactly how I should be able to craft a response or what are some action item that I need to do? And I can use

that as like my brain or a second brain here and using clock here as my assistant. So that now I give Clauo here

assistant. So that now I give Clauo here the power or the knowledge of what's currently going on with my projects and have clock here to decide exactly what I need to do. And you can see here that Clo here gives me the response. So this

is the current status of the demo projects. Phase one here is all

projects. Phase one here is all completed and the final payment is already received. The phase two here is

already received. The phase two here is authorized. So here is the key context

authorized. So here is the key context and then here are some action items and here you can see craft your response to the clients. So here are some things

the clients. So here are some things that we have. So here you can see it says do you want to craft a actual email response? And honestly what we can do

response? And honestly what we can do here is that we can even use the power of Google Workspace CLI. So connect that with claw code so that we can have claw code here to interact with Google Workspace through the CLI without having

me to open the Gmail app here to paste the email that I have to respond. And I

think this is a great use case.

Obviously this is my use case. Your case

could be like studying researching right? You can be to combine it with the

right? You can be to combine it with the power of Noble Gail AMP here inside of Claw Code. So, make sure to check out

Claw Code. So, make sure to check out this video right here. How you can be able to combine the power of notebook out here with claw code so that you can be able to automate the process for doing research and be able to organize all your knowledge base into one single place. All right, so pretty much that's

place. All right, so pretty much that's it for this video. In this video, we went over how we can be able to combine the power of claw code and obsidian here to be your second brain where claw code here is going to basically help you to manage your memories, your notes, and

also answer any questions, be able to save it inside of your GitHub here for version control. And also furthermore,

version control. And also furthermore, you can also be able to use that to ingest any data and be able to query any questions you have. And a lot of those things are all through the Obsidian skills with the power of claw code and

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