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Obsidian: what people say on TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram and X

A real report, run 2026-11-14: 57 searches and page reads, 93 seconds, nothing edited (how it's made). The 620 posts and comments it kept come to 15,914 words: about 66 minutes to read by hand, before finding them.

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Side by side: Notion vs Obsidian

Read 1,049 posts and comments on TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, X on 2026-11-14; 620 were about Obsidian.

Summary

Obsidian's biggest strength is its local, plain-markdown foundation, which users repeatedly describe as the natural home for AI-generated notes and a safe, portable place for their knowledge. The CEO's own vault, skills and workflow videos are a major draw, and the new CLI is the most talked-about feature, exciting power users while raising headless and sync questions. The loudest complaints are that second-brain setups can be productivity theater, that AI over a vault is token-hungry and error-prone, and that Obsidian is not actually open source. Beginners keep asking what Obsidian is really for and how to start, while many say they are switching from Notion or Evernote after watching a tutorial. A recurring surprise is how many people question whether Obsidian is needed at all when a plain folder plus Claude might do the job.

How it feels

50% positive, 11% negative, 12% mixed, 26% neutral (620 on-topic posts and comments).

Platform	On-topic	Positive	Negative
X	214	57%	10%
Reddit	76	46%	8%
YouTube	211	54%	4%
TikTok	117	35%	27%
Instagram	2	0%	0%

What people like

The CLI is a game changer for power users, making the vault scriptable for agents and automation 38 mentions
- Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access). https://t.co/B8ed2zrWHe X · 18,032 likes
- Obsidian 1.15.1 is now available! - Search is revamped with faster results, Relevance sort, and accent-insensitive matching. - New Android widgets! View notes on your home screen. - Web Viewer on mobile. Turn it on in Core plugins to open web pages from within Obsidian. Dozens of… X · 1,001 likes
- Obsidian CLI https://t.co/bHkoyv3pYs X · 663 likes under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
Simple, uncluttered use beats over-engineering, and beginners say tutorials finally make it click 29 mentions
- A great reminder that Obsidian doesn't need 60 plugins of the week, 500 hours of custom setup, and a PhD in PARA to work. Write, link and add a few properties. All done "out of the box". Of course the real beauty of Obsidian is that you can use the plugins and build what you like… YouTube · 555 likes under a 668K-view post: How the CEO of Obsidian Takes his Notes (Underrated Genius)
- Obsidian is free unless you want sync. TikTok · 146 likes under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
- I mean, it's not complicated if you don't want it to be? If tags and the graph aren't useful, just don't use them? Same goes for anything else, if you just want to rely on links, that's also pretty easy and one of the flagship features of Obsidian. It's only as complicated or as … Reddit · 4 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: Obsidian to manage almost all my life?
Obsidian works well as a backend or persistent memory layer for AI agents like Claude and Hermes 24 mentions
- andrej karpathy, co-founder of openai, keeps dropping the same line in every interview: "context engineering is the new programming". and 99% of the people who hear it still do not understand what he actually means i tested what he means for 2 weeks. built claude a second brain i… X · 125 likes
- i tested the second brain setup for 42 days. it gave me back ~10 hours a week and killed the "wait, did i already read this?" anxiety for good. not re-googled a single thing twice since andrej karpathy: "context engineering is the new programming" translation: the people building… X · 119 likes
- WHOEVER MADE THIS DESERVES TO GET PAID. SOMEONE JUST FOUND A WAY TO MAKE AN OBSIDIAN VAULT WORK AS A SECOND BRAIN FOR CLAUDE CODE, CODEX AND GROK BOT. It goes beyond saving notes. New information gets added to existing notes, so useful details do not get buried or forgotten. HERE… X · 109 likes
The CEO's own vault, templates and open-sourced skills let people copy a proven setup instead of starting blank 22 mentions
- This is f*cking gold, the CEO of Obsidian put his own second brain on GitHub for free and people still build theirs from zero 7 free repos from the Obsidian team: -> kepano obsidian (by kepano) https://t.co/lT5QtPucOn the vault template of the Obsidian CEO himself, copy it and sk… X · 5,688 likes
- It's f*cking wild how many people still build their Claude + Obsidian setup by hand, when Obsidian's CEO already open-sourced all the tools 1. obsidian skills · 51K stars by kepano, Obsidian's CEO. Claude stops writing broken Markdown and starts writing real Obsidian: wikilinks, … X · 950 likes
- A great reminder that Obsidian doesn't need 60 plugins of the week, 500 hours of custom setup, and a PhD in PARA to work. Write, link and add a few properties. All done "out of the box". Of course the real beauty of Obsidian is that you can use the plugins and build what you like… YouTube · 555 likes under a 668K-view post: How the CEO of Obsidian Takes his Notes (Underrated Genius)
Plugins, themes and visual features enable impressive custom dashboards and fun graphs 19 mentions
- Loving Obsidian as it lets me organize my life, capture thoughts, tasks, write and build a visual layer on top of my own data. I've wanted a proper dashboard in Obsidian for a long time. I tried a bunch of setups, but most of them were either pretty but built around someone else'… Reddit · 1,188 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD
- To all the students who use obsidian to study and take notes.... What are y'all's favorite plugins, themes, tips/tricks and whatnot for studying with obsidian? I'll start; Notebook view plugin.. makes navigation much better but the only downside is that it takes more space.. (Als… Reddit · 132 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD
- [Sticker] TikTok · 85 likes under a 49K-view post: My Obsidian notes turned into a solar system and every edit launches a rocket. theme to us…
Local plain-markdown files make Obsidian the natural, portable home for notes and AI-generated content 16 mentions
- Obsidian already has dozens of AI-generated clones, so that ship sailed a long time ago. The bigger mission is [File over app](https://stephango.com/file-over-app). If any of these clones help people get off of proprietary formats and into owning their own data in markdown/plain … Reddit · 1,132 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: Surprised to see Obsidian on the Artcraft chopping block
- Obsidian being plain markdown and agents natively speaking markdown is the starting point. Obsidian sync adds another layer. And an Obsidian MCP wraps it all up. Now, I can be driving, chatting with Claude, having it do research on something, writing its findings into Obsidian, s… Reddit · 209 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI: i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession
- You're basically right. The agent only needs a folder of markdown files. Obsidian is the human side: backlinks, search, and a nice editor on your phone. If you never browse the notes yourself, a plain folder in git is all you need. Reddit · 119 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI: i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession
Linking, tags and daily notes replace rigid folders and help messy thinkers resurface old notes 7 mentions
- Not OP but: I have severe ADHD and having a place where I can put all my thoughts for later when my mind is racing is amazing. Linking notes is like therapy to my brain. It literally made me calmer, more organized and less confused. Reddit · 69 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: obsidian is changing my life!
- I switched to obsidian thanks to a video teaching me that the whole point was not to have an insanely precise setup, but rathe to throw links around to never think about "which folder does this note go in?" again. Changed my life. YouTube · 31 likes under a 668K-view post: How the CEO of Obsidian Takes his Notes (Underrated Genius)
- This! I have tried for the better part of 2 decades to find a way to organize myself in my jobs. Now I have a tool that I can use the way my brain works. That is a feeling I'm lacking the words for. It's a new world and I'll never go back. Reddit · 16 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: obsidian is changing my life!

Complaints and problems

Second-brain setups are called productivity theater or hype that ships nothing real 17 mentions
- The very concept of a “second brain” is just a marketing gimmick from grifty content creators. Obsidian is an app for creating and managing markdown files, there’s no wrong way to use it. Reddit · 438 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: Don't let AI manage your second brain
- Your setup is awesome. The problem with most of these systems, especially the guys pushing second brains, is that they don't even have a first brain to begin with. So everybody ends up getting lost in the sauce. Thank you for the clarity. YouTube · 117 likes under a 414K-view post: Build an Obsidian BACKEND Not a Second Brain!
- the illusion of doing work Runs deep in this one... YouTube · 77 likes under a 414K-view post: Build an Obsidian BACKEND Not a Second Brain!
A plain folder of markdown plus Claude may be enough; Obsidian adds unnecessary fluff and UI 11 mentions
- i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession. i honestly just dont see the point. a lot of people are saying its like a "second brain" but i tried it, and in my opinion, it just adds a ton of unnecesary fluff and ui. the alternative that i have been using (and really … Reddit · 919 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI
- Obsidian is for people who enjoy the theater of organization over the reality of it. Reddit · 126 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI: i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession
- You're basically right. The agent only needs a folder of markdown files. Obsidian is the human side: backlinks, search, and a nice editor on your phone. If you never browse the notes yourself, a plain folder in git is all you need. Reddit · 119 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI: i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession
AI over a vault is inefficient: bloated context, expensive tokens, poor traversal and arithmetic errors 5 mentions
- It makes simple multiplication arithmetic mistakes. Who needs a second brain you can’t trust X · 40 likes under a 7.1M-view post: I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-found…
- omething like this, but there’s problems. When you ask a question, there’s only so much context it can comb through. One solution I found was to make a map that rolls up the information to an abstraction layer, and links back to the raw data. That lets it figure out groups of t X · 25 likes under a 7.1M-view post: I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-found…
- This is cool for small projects, but when it comes to managing enterprise projects, obsedian is super ineffective. Tokens are fed each time, context window gets super bloated, poor traversal methods, becomes super expensive with any flagship models and highly inefficient. TikTok · 11 likes under a 457K-view post: 💰 CONNECT CLAUDE WITH OBSIDIAN & TURN YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO INCOME Your Obsidian vault can …
The learning curve and setup feel clunky and confusing for newcomers 5 mentions
- Bro this is like a week of work to get the wikis to actually build and format the right way but I do agree - everyone should do it. X · 123 likes under a 7.1M-view post: I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-found…
- At first i Thought random note, unique note creator staff are useless, but this video, told me i am actually using it wrong way, i will try this tomorrow morning, and start anew. Anyway, i only hsve 100+ notes (each are too big). Edit: man the easier, and lazier it look, The hard… YouTube · 3 likes under a 668K-view post: How the CEO of Obsidian Takes his Notes (Underrated Genius)
- Great idea. The execution is CLUNKY!!! X · 2 likes under a 1.1M-view post: this russian guy found a way to learn anything 10x faster🚨 saved 1,460h NotebookLM + Gemi…
Obsidian is not actually open source, and closed sync raises privacy and trust doubts 4 mentions
- Do you guys trust Obsidian? Should I move to a different platform?. I really like Obsidian, I trusted it until a few days ago, and I'm pretty sure it's just mental health related because I suffer from intense paranoia, but I thought I'd ask for some input anyway. I think I'm most… Reddit · 16 likes under a post: r/privacy
- im trying to do this but with joplin becuase Obsidian isnt open source. It may be better but its not os YouTube · 4 likes under a 414K-view post: Build an Obsidian BACKEND Not a Second Brain!
- Obsidian isn't open source, though it feels like it Reddit · 3 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI: i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession
Fancy themes, graphs and visuals waste CPU/GPU and get in the way 3 mentions
- Every single ram, cpu, gpu is going to my project I’m not wasting them on somthing like this TikTok · 109 likes under a 49K-view post: My Obsidian notes turned into a solar system and every edit launches a rocket. theme to us…
- me trying to open a needed note as it keeps flying away from the cursor cause i got the new useless galaxy theme that does nothing but eat computing power TikTok · 5 likes under a 49K-view post: My Obsidian notes turned into a solar system and every edit launches a rocket. theme to us…
- This is ridiculous. I use normal text editor and store it on my Linux system with three backups done by rsync. Much easier. Much cleaner. More productivity focus. This app seems to take 80% of time just do type fancy brackets and customize color of text. It's literally anti-produ… YouTube · 1 likes under a 201K-view post: Obsidian Tutorial for Beginners
Sync is unreliable across devices and can delete notes, while git sync is slow 2 mentions
- Thank you for so much for this! I’ve set it up and am really enjoying the Obsidian structure and portability aspects. I’m having two issues 1) I’m running a synced Obsidian vault across two devices. Obsidian’s sync seems to get wonky when I have Obsidian open on two devices at th… YouTube · 3 likes under a 419K-view post: How I Use Obsidian + Claude Cowork to Run My Life
- Compared to Obsidian sync, git is really slow. Reddit under a post: r/ClaudeAI: i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession

Questions people ask

What is Obsidian actually for, how do people use it day to day, and what am I missing? 6 mentions
- I want to get into using Obsidian, but I can't get what it's actually good for. I guess it's all about my workflow and my needs, but if you could share your own use cases, or how you use Obsidian in your own professional/personal life, it would be super helpful for me to get the … Reddit · 19 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD
- What do you guys even do with all of these TikTok · 16 likes under a 457K-view post: 💰 CONNECT CLAUDE WITH OBSIDIAN & TURN YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO INCOME Your Obsidian vault can …
- Is anyone else still trying to figure out what the hell obsidian actually is? I use Claude cowork and Google workspace. What am I missing here? TikTok · 4 likes under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
How do you connect Claude or other AI to Obsidian, and can it replace tools like Evernote? 6 mentions
- How TikTok under a 457K-view post: 💰 CONNECT CLAUDE WITH OBSIDIAN & TURN YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO INCOME Your Obsidian vault can …
- can I use codex? TikTok under a 457K-view post: 💰 CONNECT CLAUDE WITH OBSIDIAN & TURN YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO INCOME Your Obsidian vault can …
- Can it replace Evernote. TikTok under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
How do you keep AI from sharing notes, and how do you restrict permissions to certain folders? 6 mentions
- How we make sure claude doesn’t t not share our notes to everyone else? TikTok · 11 likes under a 457K-view post: 💰 CONNECT CLAUDE WITH OBSIDIAN & TURN YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO INCOME Your Obsidian vault can …
- How does Claude keep everything linked TikTok · 9 likes under a 457K-view post: 💰 CONNECT CLAUDE WITH OBSIDIAN & TURN YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO INCOME Your Obsidian vault can …
- How do you manage the AI permission, so that it cannot work inside the human folder? YouTube · 6 likes under a 414K-view post: Build an Obsidian BACKEND Not a Second Brain!
How do you build the dashboard homepage, and which plugins and themes are used? 6 mentions
- That homepage is dope. How did you make it? Is it a plugin? Reddit · 61 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: Obsidian helped me so much. Sharing vault setup
- A combination of CSS and plugins! * the [MCL](https://github.com/efemkay/obsidian-modular-css-layout) CSS snippet multi-column -- I used callouts and this snippet for the to-do section * the [dashboard](https://tfthacker.com/article-obsidian-dashboardplusplus2022#Step%201%20Insta… Reddit · 33 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: Obsidian helped me so much. Sharing vault setup
- Sorry to bother you but I just cannot understand **how you can edit the home tab**, for me only the search bar appears and no editable place. edit: i managed it: the *home tab plugin* is not just a "homepage", but you can "extract" its searchbar into your homepage (using the *hom… Reddit · 2 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: Obsidian helped me so much. Sharing vault setup
Why use an MCP server or CLI instead of plain files, and is headless mode coming? 5 mentions
- Why an MCP server though? I don’t understand why. Obsidian is just a folder containing text files - an MCP server is not needed for that. And why would you favor an MCP server over Obsidians own CLI rven if you were to go that route? Reddit · 67 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI: i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession
- I don't get it .. what problem it solves? why would use this instead of basic Linux commands? X · 36 likes under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
- Why is this better for AI? Claude code reads and edits markdown files just fine X · 6 likes under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
How much does running the AI setup cost in tokens or money? 2 mentions
- How many tokens does the second brain use? X · 23 likes under a 7.1M-view post: I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-found…
- How much money does this take to run. X · 17 likes under a 7.1M-view post: I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-found…
How do you handle recall of old notes and contradicting sources? 2 mentions
- How do you handle recall on the old stuff? That's where mine falls apart, six months later I know I wrote something but not what I called it. Reddit · 27 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: Obsidian to manage almost all my life?
- been running a similar obsidian + AI setup for research, that 80% overlap number is painfully accurate lol, but how does it handle sources that contradict each other? deduplication is the easy part, conflict resolution is where it gets messy X · 25 likes under a 1.1M-view post: this russian guy found a way to learn anything 10x faster🚨 saved 1,460h NotebookLM + Gemi…

Buying signals

People switch from Notion, Evernote or Joplin to Obsidian after watching tutorials 16 mentions
- a Really Underated channel, keep it up man, you inspired me to switch from notion to obsidian in may, and now i have my system 100x Better because of the Possibilities with AI agent, and most important my files, are mine and i can keep it in a USB forever... wow. thank you man YouTube · 9 likes under a 414K-view post: Build an Obsidian BACKEND Not a Second Brain!
- I accidentally found your youtube video. What you have just shown to me is a life changer, before this video I used obsidian as just a fancy text editor, but after watching this video I'm facinated, I am just a newbie, but I want to learn how to organize my memory and notes with … YouTube · 10 likes under a 668K-view post: How the CEO of Obsidian Takes his Notes (Underrated Genius)
- Thanks for the video. I have heard a lot of good things about Obsidian and I am looking for a service to move my notes from Evernote. Can you do a video on how to sync with cloud drives like OneDrive or Google Drive YouTube · 5 likes under a 201K-view post: Obsidian Tutorial for Beginners
Viewers plan to adopt Obsidian and build their own vault after seeing the CEO's workflow 14 mentions
- insta subbed! This is very interesting friend. I will look into obsidian and setting my own up. I am currently in the mind of setting up my own server with my old pc and hopefully run my own Ai? Along with my own media with jellyfin. This is all new to me but I can insta learn. T… YouTube · 2 likes under a 419K-view post: How I Use Obsidian + Claude Cowork to Run My Life
- I just know what to learn as a researchers this is one of tool I need to learn before persuing my research officially. And you are my fav instructor!! YouTube · 2 likes under a 201K-view post: Obsidian Tutorial for Beginners
- Thanks! The video is very clear to explain how to use it. Yes, would love to learn more features of Obsidian. YouTube · 2 likes under a 201K-view post: Obsidian Tutorial for Beginners
Users want to try the CLI and agent integrations right away 7 mentions
- My openclaw bot is going to be so happy! 🦞 X · 74 likes under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
- Hook that baby up to Codex/Claude Code and let her rip! X · 33 likes under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
- My ClawdBot can’t contain his excitement 😍 X · 28 likes under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
People adopt the free CEO vault and skills instead of paying for setup help 2 mentions
- This is f*cking gold, the CEO of Obsidian put his own second brain on GitHub for free and people still build theirs from zero 7 free repos from the Obsidian team: -> kepano obsidian (by kepano) https://t.co/lT5QtPucOn the vault template of the Obsidian CEO himself, copy it and sk… X · 5,688 likes
- steph ango, the ceo of obsidian, quietly uploaded his entire second brain to github. his vault, his theme, his colors, his 40-question yearly review. all free. and people are still opening a blank obsidian window like they have to invent note-taking from scratch 7 repos. do not o… X · 170 likes
Users pay for Obsidian Sync and business accounts to support the team 1 mention
- Obsidian Sync, Catalist, and business accounts. It is a fantastic app that I use daily, which is the primary reason I pay for Obsidian Sync. There are other sync methods, but I want to support the team if I can. Reddit · 232 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: Obsidian is a really fantastic app--How is it possible that is gratis?
Obsidian is free unless you want sync 1 mention
- Obsidian is free unless you want sync. TikTok · 146 likes under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
A one-time catalyst license feels good as support for the project 1 mention
- As one small note about the paid features (mentioned @ 1:50), a $25 catalyst license, which lasts for a lifetime, simply feels good supporting the project and gives you early access to new features. YouTube · 20 likes under a 1.1M-view post: Obsidian in 24 Minutes

Compared with other brands

Versus Notion: Obsidian is local and simple, Notion just works across devices without paid sync 11 mentions
- So what does it do? ))) like really. I test Obsidian for a couple of days useless tool the same as Notion. TikTok · 72 likes under a 457K-view post: 💰 CONNECT CLAUDE WITH OBSIDIAN & TURN YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO INCOME Your Obsidian vault can …
- Notion slander? TikTok · 19 likes under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
- Beginner cant decide between Notion, Obsidian, or both ?. Hello guys ! hope you have a great day. Currently, my ADHD basically make it impossible to try to be fully productive. Organising task, finishing my studies, planning things ahead etc. Everything just accumulate. I tried s… Reddit · 14 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD
Versus a plain markdown folder plus Claude, Obsidian is the human browsing layer 6 mentions
- i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession. i honestly just dont see the point. a lot of people are saying its like a "second brain" but i tried it, and in my opinion, it just adds a ton of unnecesary fluff and ui. the alternative that i have been using (and really … Reddit · 919 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI
- Obsidian is for people who enjoy the theater of organization over the reality of it. Reddit · 126 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI: i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession
- You're basically right. The agent only needs a folder of markdown files. Obsidian is the human side: backlinks, search, and a nice editor on your phone. If you never browse the notes yourself, a plain folder in git is all you need. Reddit · 119 likes under a post: r/ClaudeAI: i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession
Versus neovim, Dropbox and other free alternatives 4 mentions
- I use Dropbox and Skills. You dont need obsidian TikTok · 1 likes under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
- wat - but there is a thing called neovim and it’s free TikTok · 1 likes under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
- Emacs orgmode > Obsidian TikTok · 3 likes under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
Versus Apple Notes, which some find better natively for finding notes 3 mentions
- How to use Obsidian as a COMPLETE beginner. when i say im a beginner i mean i dont get how to use it at all. I'm really just starting my journey of note taking and before i downloaded Obsidian i used apple notes...yea. if theres a very good tutorial that throughly explains and he… Reddit · 213 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD
- Can I use apple notes instead of Obsidian? X · 2 likes under a 7.1M-view post: I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-found…
- I would say Apple notes is way better natively for finding the right note. The abundance of tools can also complicate the workflow. Reddit · 1 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: Obsidian to manage almost all my life?
Versus NotebookLM as a research and learning filter 3 mentions
- this was a tough listen, 40% explaining the problem + what NotebookLM/Obsidian already do. 20% sudden self-promotion. 10% technics 30% pure repetition. By the end I was exhausted by the over-sped AI voice. no wonder he’s obsessed with redundancy. X · 25 likes under a 1.1M-view post: this russian guy found a way to learn anything 10x faster🚨 saved 1,460h NotebookLM + Gemi…
- the deduplication logic here is the real unlock. most 'learning' is just a dopamine loop from hearing the same 20% of a topic in different accents. using notebooklm as a filter before it hits obsidian is high-tier info hygiene. X under a 1.1M-view post: this russian guy found a way to learn anything 10x faster🚨 saved 1,460h NotebookLM + Gemi…
- at this stack: NotebookLM + Gemini + Obsidian. It’s basically a defrag tool for the human brain. If humans start deleting all 'redundant' data in their learning process, are we just trying to fix a memory leak in the simulation's organic NPCs? Is 'repetitive informatio X under a 1.1M-view post: this russian guy found a way to learn anything 10x faster🚨 saved 1,460h NotebookLM + Gemi…
Versus Evernote and Joplin as previous note apps 3 mentions
- Can it replace Evernote. TikTok under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
- I use evernote TikTok under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
- It is all I used after moving from Joplin. TikTok under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
Versus Hermes, seen as a simpler AI setup 3 mentions
- anything but using Hermes agent TikTok · 69 likes under a 457K-view post: 💰 CONNECT CLAUDE WITH OBSIDIAN & TURN YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO INCOME Your Obsidian vault can …
- Dunno if you have given Hermes a try. I think it automatically achieves what you're doing here. Curious to know your thoughts on that. YouTube under a 419K-view post: How I Use Obsidian + Claude Cowork to Run My Life
- Thoughts on Hermes + Obsidian? Seems like a simpler setup, not for long time obsidian users, but for fresh ai os systems. YouTube under a 419K-view post: How I Use Obsidian + Claude Cowork to Run My Life

What people want next

Share sample vaults, folder structures and dashboard how-tos 11 mentions
- Dude give us a tutorial for this set up. It is absolutely beautiful. Best one I've ever seen. Reddit · 200 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: obsidian is changing my life!
- i am going to try and make a sample vault + a how to Reddit · 113 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD: obsidian is changing my life!
- Show me your Obsidian vault folder structure. I really enjoy seeing how other people organize their Obsidian vaults. Maybe it's a bit of FOMO, but I'm always curious about how others structure their notes and manage their knowledge. Honestly, I'm also a little tired of seeing gra… Reddit · 197 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD
Make the CLI work headless without the app running, with Sync and emoji-path support 6 mentions
- This is awesome! Have to say “Obsidian CLI requires the Obsidian app to be running” is still a bit of a downer. Still very useful, don’t get me wrong. But this would be 200% better if it would work headless as well. Is this in the cards, @kepano? 🙏 X · 308 likes under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
- This is a great start, but I really need this to work on a headless Linux VM and (a) not require the Obsidian app; and (b) it needs to support Obsidian Sync… X under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
- * except accessing paths with emoji inside X under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
Provide beginner-friendly step-by-step tutorials and explain basics like hashtags 4 mentions
- How to use Obsidian as a COMPLETE beginner. when i say im a beginner i mean i dont get how to use it at all. I'm really just starting my journey of note taking and before i downloaded Obsidian i used apple notes...yea. if theres a very good tutorial that throughly explains and he… Reddit · 213 likes under a post: r/ObsidianMD
- Would be nice of u said why u do the hash tags ans things YouTube under a 201K-view post: Obsidian Tutorial for Beginners
- my friend told me i am stupid for not learning obsidian, claude and few other things but after thinkin a lil i started 2 days ago , and i didnt regret it i already have big plans. secondly he told me to watch your tutorial but i just ignored for one day , and i felt bad cuz i nee… YouTube · 1 likes under a 1.1M-view post: Obsidian in 24 Minutes
Show concrete results of the Claude Cowork workflow and how it helped income 2 mentions
- you should show what it literally has done for you . I cannot figure out if this is actually useful or a waste of time based on this video YouTube · 287 likes under a 419K-view post: How I Use Obsidian + Claude Cowork to Run My Life
- How did it directly help your income? X under a 2.9M-view post: I still don't understand why everyone is not using this yet. Thanks to it, a year ago I in…
Keep Obsidian simple and avoid over-complicating setups 2 mentions
- Obsidian is free unless you want sync. TikTok · 146 likes under a 44K-view post: Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be compl…
- Your setup is awesome. The problem with most of these systems, especially the guys pushing second brains, is that they don't even have a first brain to begin with. So everybody ends up getting lost in the sauce. Thank you for the clarity. YouTube · 117 likes under a 414K-view post: Build an Obsidian BACKEND Not a Second Brain!
Support rendered DataView content and on-the-fly layout editing in the CLI 2 mentions
- How about getting the rendered contents of a document that contains DataView / DataViewJS?????? X under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
- Hell yeah, love to see it. Is there a way to edit layouts on the fly? I see ways to save, load, and delete workspaces, but not to edit them on the fly. If it’s not currently available that’s my main request, this is all fantastic otherwise! https://t.co/RHeKR4hvUB X · 12 likes under a 4.1M-view post: Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now avai…
Provide a local, private way to run the AI workflow 2 mentions
- Because: privacy. Give me a local way to do that, and I’m all for it. X · 79 likes under a 7.1M-view post: I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-found…
- I would love to see a setup guide for this using local LLM instead of Claude… Gemma + x under ollama X · 11 likes under a 7.1M-view post: I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet Andrej Karpathy, a co-found…

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i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession. i honestly just dont see the point. a lot of people are saying its like a "second brain" but i tried it, and in my opinion, it just adds a ton of unnecesary fluff and ui. the alternative that i have been using (and really enjoying it) is just pointing all my claude sessions to a local folder, and telling claude, "treat this folder like obsidian. make it organized, only use md files for text, and put your memory and context here as well. t…
u/Parking-Beyond4499 on Reddit · 919 likes

The very concept of a “second brain” is just a marketing gimmick from grifty content creators. Obsidian is an app for creating and managing markdown files, there’s no wrong way to use it.
u/marktron3k on Reddit · 438 likes

Not OP but: I have severe ADHD and having a place where I can put all my thoughts for later when my mind is racing is amazing. Linking notes is like therapy to my brain. It literally made me calmer, more organized and less confused.
u/x_wbmr_x on Reddit · 69 likes

People who use “second brains” are productivity larping and ship nothing. It’s catnip for midwits
@thedripfed on X · 12 likes

The only thing I hate about Obsidian is that they won’t charge me a monthly subscription for it, it’s so good!
@scotups on X · 2 likes

LOL can we please stop pretending that connecting claude to obsidian creates a second brain? 💀 a pretty graph of markdown files doesn't fix stale data, conflicting facts or context rot
@norab18 on TikTok · 1 likes

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Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access). https://t.co/B8ed2zrWHe	X	Positive	18,032	open
This is f*cking gold, the CEO of Obsidian put his own second brain on GitHub for free and people still build theirs from zero 7 free repos from the Obsidian team: -> kepano obsidian (by kepano) https://t.co/lT5QtPucOn the vault template of …	X	Positive	5,688	open
Obsidian helped me so much. Sharing vault setup. Not sure if this is the right flair, I'm not a developer, let me know if it is wrong. I'm a neurodivergent high school student who struggles to stay organised, Obsidian really helped me get t…	Reddit	Positive	1,764	open
obsidian is changing my life!. (blurred personal info) i know some people look down on using lots of plugins or home dashboards but this has been working so seamlessly for me and made my life 1000x easier. i wish i had started using obsidia…	Reddit	Positive	1,649	open
Oops I fixed that issue you found at 11:58	YouTube comment	Positive	1,400	open
Loving Obsidian as it lets me organize my life, capture thoughts, tasks, write and build a visual layer on top of my own data. I've wanted a proper dashboard in Obsidian for a long time. I tried a bunch of setups, but most of them were eith…	Reddit	Positive	1,188	open
Obsidian to manage almost all my life?. Im using obsidian to keep track of almost everything, i like to have all my information interconnected and accessible on only one platform in my own locally device.	Reddit	Positive	1,144	open
Obsidian already has dozens of AI-generated clones, so that ship sailed a long time ago. The bigger mission is [File over app](https://stephango.com/file-over-app). If any of these clones help people get off of proprietary formats and into …	Reddit comment	Mixed	1,132	open
Obsidian 1.15.1 is now available! - Search is revamped with faster results, Relevance sort, and accent-insensitive matching. - New Android widgets! View notes on your home screen. - Web Viewer on mobile. Turn it on in Core plugins to open w…	X	Positive	1,001	open
It's f*cking wild how many people still build their Claude + Obsidian setup by hand, when Obsidian's CEO already open-sourced all the tools 1. obsidian skills · 51K stars by kepano, Obsidian's CEO. Claude stops writing broken Markdown and s…	X	Positive	950	open
i dont understand all this "claude + obsidian" obsession. i honestly just dont see the point. a lot of people are saying its like a "second brain" but i tried it, and in my opinion, it just adds a ton of unnecesary fluff and ui. the alterna…	Reddit	Negative	919	open
Any advice on how I can get 1st brain?	YouTube comment	Neutral	761	open
Obsidian CLI https://t.co/bHkoyv3pYs	X comment	Positive	663	open
Been using Obsidian since March and finally got around to making my homepage look nice after seeing all the beautiful homepages shared by everyone here. Added the graph view just because it looked nice.	Reddit	Positive	620	open
A great reminder that Obsidian doesn't need 60 plugins of the week, 500 hours of custom setup, and a PhD in PARA to work. Write, link and add a few properties. All done "out of the box". Of course the real beauty of Obsidian is that you can…	YouTube comment	Positive	555	open
I still don't get why anyone builds a second brain for Claude Code from scratch when these 7 repos have over 75,000 stars combined 1. Teach Claude Obsidian's formats and tools with 6 skills from its CEO: https://t.co/0zCMJLrus6 2. Run wiki-…	X	Positive	499	open
ultimate free AI setup 👀 - Harness: Hermes Agent - Provider: OpenCode - Model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 250k - Local fallback: Ollama, Qwen3-8B - Voice dictation: OpenWhispr - Voice out: Edge TTS - Video: yt-dlp + ffmpeg - Notes: Obsidian - Lea…	X	Positive	460	open
I can’t f*cking believe people are still building their Claude second brain by hand when Obsidian’s own CEO open-sourced the skills and 4 more repos did the rest -> obsidian skills (by kepano) https://t.co/lonWXdfFdE Obsidian’s CEO teaches …	X	Positive	458	open
The very concept of a “second brain” is just a marketing gimmick from grifty content creators. Obsidian is an app for creating and managing markdown files, there’s no wrong way to use it.	Reddit comment	Mixed	438	open
plug-in that makes Obsidian 10x more powerful Agent CLI (install via BRAT) connects any AI agent directly into Obsidian Gemini CLI, custom agents > all supported your notes become a full AI workspace	X comment	Positive	332	open
If you're watching this, you're probably a smart person with a hard project who is procrastinating. You do not need to reinvent your note taking stack. Go do your work.	YouTube comment	Mixed	319	open
This is awesome! Have to say “Obsidian CLI requires the Obsidian app to be running” is still a bit of a downer. Still very useful, don’t get me wrong. But this would be 200% better if it would work headless as well. Is this in the cards, @k…	X comment	Mixed	308	open
you should show what it literally has done for you . I cannot figure out if this is actually useful or a waste of time based on this video	YouTube comment	Mixed	287	open
It's pretty wild that people are still manually stitching together their Claude second brain setups when Obsidian’s CEO literally open-sourced the entire blueprint Here are 4 GitHub repos that automate the whole build for you: -> obsidian s…	X	Positive	271	open
Obsidian has been outdated for a year now bro come on😭 Why would anybody ever need this	TikTok comment	Negative	256	open
Use a proper memory system.	TikTok comment	Neutral	246	open
This is good if you -- like Tina here -- are not a note-taker. Or if you do take notes, but you seldom take the next step to actually organize/synthesize them, this can be good too. LLMs are good at generating summaries for review, and revi…	YouTube comment	Mixed	241	open
Obsidian Sync, Catalist, and business accounts. It is a fantastic app that I use daily, which is the primary reason I pay for Obsidian Sync. There are other sync methods, but I want to support the team if I can.	Reddit comment	Positive	232	open
As a 3 year Obsidian user, THIS IS THE BEST TOOL. I’m still not sure on the AI stuff directly in the vault… but obsidian and second brain (and this channel of course 😊) helped me go from 2.5 GPA to 4.0 GPA today 🎉 I’m so grateful about it…	YouTube comment	Positive	224	open
The Obsidian CEO wrote skills that teach your AI agent to run your vault, free on GitHub, and people still let their agent guess how notes work 6 free repos from the Obsidian team for an agent-ready second brain: -> obsidian skills (by kepa…	X	Positive	218	open
this is f*cking unreal... the CEO of Obsidian just shared 285 plugins for motion design for free. ALL OF THEM one turns a rough sketch into an animated scene. one flies a camera across your canvas. one makes slides morph like Keynote. one g…	X	Positive	215	open
How to use Obsidian as a COMPLETE beginner. when i say im a beginner i mean i dont get how to use it at all. I'm really just starting my journey of note taking and before i downloaded Obsidian i used apple notes...yea. if theres a very good…	Reddit	Neutral	213	open
Obsidian being plain markdown and agents natively speaking markdown is the starting point. Obsidian sync adds another layer. And an Obsidian MCP wraps it all up. Now, I can be driving, chatting with Claude, having it do research on somethin…	Reddit comment	Positive	209	open
Dude give us a tutorial for this set up. It is absolutely beautiful. Best one I've ever seen.	Reddit comment	Positive	200	open
Show me your Obsidian vault folder structure. I really enjoy seeing how other people organize their Obsidian vaults. Maybe it's a bit of FOMO, but I'm always curious about how others structure their notes and manage their knowledge. Honestl…	Reddit	Neutral	197	open
steph ango, the ceo of obsidian, quietly uploaded his entire second brain to github. his vault, his theme, his colors, his 40-question yearly review. all free. and people are still opening a blank obsidian window like they have to invent no…	X	Positive	170	open
Obsidian is free unless you want sync.	TikTok comment	Positive	146	open
To all the students who use obsidian to study and take notes.... What are y'all's favorite plugins, themes, tips/tricks and whatnot for studying with obsidian? I'll start; Notebook view plugin.. makes navigation much better but the only dow…	Reddit	Neutral	132	open
no one talks about how scary it is to transition from being folder-heavy to adapting this format. i know my thoughts and my notes aren't reaching their full potential if they're fragmented into folders but that has been the only way i've kn…	YouTube comment	Mixed	129	open
Obsidian is for people who enjoy the theater of organization over the reality of it.	Reddit comment	Negative	126	open
andrej karpathy, co-founder of openai, keeps dropping the same line in every interview: "context engineering is the new programming". and 99% of the people who hear it still do not understand what he actually means i tested what he means fo…	X	Positive	125	open
One unexpected thing I realized watching this: I RARELY write personal (my world) notes. 95% of my notes are about topics I’m learning about, researching or making. That’s interesting to reflect on. < now this is copied to obsidian as note	YouTube comment	Positive	124	open
I've got my own system, but its pretty similar to yours. Slowly building it out:	X comment	Positive	124	open
Bro this is like a week of work to get the wikis to actually build and format the right way but I do agree - everyone should do it.	X comment	Mixed	123	open
You're basically right. The agent only needs a folder of markdown files. Obsidian is the human side: backlinks, search, and a nice editor on your phone. If you never browse the notes yourself, a plain folder in git is all you need.	Reddit comment	Mixed	119	open
i tested the second brain setup for 42 days. it gave me back ~10 hours a week and killed the "wait, did i already read this?" anxiety for good. not re-googled a single thing twice since andrej karpathy: "context engineering is the new progr…	X	Positive	119	open
Your setup is awesome. The problem with most of these systems, especially the guys pushing second brains, is that they don't even have a first brain to begin with. So everybody ends up getting lost in the sauce. Thank you for the clarity.	YouTube comment	Mixed	117	open
i am going to try and make a sample vault + a how to	Reddit comment	Positive	113	open
bro built a filing cabinet and called it sentient my brain also 'compounds' but mostly just reruns of stuff i said wrong in 2014	X comment	Negative	110	open
Every single ram, cpu, gpu is going to my project I’m not wasting them on somthing like this	TikTok comment	Negative	109	open
WHOEVER MADE THIS DESERVES TO GET PAID. SOMEONE JUST FOUND A WAY TO MAKE AN OBSIDIAN VAULT WORK AS A SECOND BRAIN FOR CLAUDE CODE, CODEX AND GROK BOT. It goes beyond saving notes. New information gets added to existing notes, so useful deta…	X	Positive	109	open
holy f*ck, you can build Karpathy's second brain with Claude Fable 5.2 + Obsidian right now Andrej Karpathy shared an architecture that makes Claude a persistent second brain instead of a basic chat window Fable 5.2 can hand it to a whole s…	X	Positive	102	open
This is f*cking gold, 9 free repos from the Obsidian CEO, Anthropic and OpenAI that build you a real second brain, and people still keep notes in dead folders 9 free repos for a second brain: -> obsidian skills (by kepano) https://t.co/lonW…	X	Positive	100	open
Obsidian + Tailscale + Syncthing	TikTok comment	Positive	96	open
This video taught me how to use Obsidian wayyy better than anyone else lol	YouTube comment	Positive	95	open
Isso não é um “segundo cérebro”! Muito se fala sobre o Obsidian como segundo cérebro na era dos agentes de Ia. Mas aqui, o papel dele é outro… Usamos o Obsidian como camada visual do Knowledge Graph, onde navegamos e analisamos as conexões …	Instagram	Mixed	95	open
It is becoming f*cking dangerous A 23-year-old dev from China just ran 300 Claude Code agents in parallel and hooked them to a verification layer so none of them could bullshit him He opens the live dashboard: - 300 agents writing and check…	X	Positive	92	open
This app is like a local Wikipedia in your pc	YouTube comment	Positive	87	open
HOLY SH*T, I GAVE EVERY GROK BOT TEAM ITS OWN MEMORY IN ONE OBSIDIAN VAULT, AND THEY STOPPED MIXING UP WHAT THEY KNOW AND BURNING USAGE ON CONTEXT THEY DON'T NEED one vault, three layers: what everyone knows, what a team knows, what one bot…	X	Positive	86	open
[Sticker]	TikTok comment	Positive	85	open
Obsidian’s CEO published his vault template on GitHub. Steal the structure before you spend another night naming folders. Start with his template. The other six repos are there when you want to map ideas, review your year, or build somethin…	X	Positive	84	open
Because: privacy. Give me a local way to do that, and I’m all for it.	X comment	Mixed	79	open
the illusion of doing work Runs deep in this one...	YouTube comment	Mixed	77	open
I've seen this so many times... and I have questions. If you don't remember something, or can't explain it, do you really 'know' it? At that point, if you want to remember, aren't you just asking AI from its brain? It appears as a way to sh…	X comment	Negative	77	open
Basically the CEO produced this software for himselfs haha. Hopefully they won't get greedy and follow in Notion's footsteps...	YouTube comment	Mixed	76	open
This guy made more from obsidian than obsidian owner's itself	YouTube comment	Mixed	75	open
BREAKING : people still wire Obsidian into Claude Code by hand Obsidian's CEO already open-sourced the whole stack. 5 repos, 70K stars, $0 → obsidian-skills · 51K stars his own repo. 6 skills, so your agent writes real Obsidian: wikilinks, …	X	Positive	75	open
My openclaw bot is going to be so happy! 🦞	X comment	Positive	74	open
I genuinely don’t understand why people don’t use this yet Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, dropped an idea that pulled 16 million views in 48 hours: stop using AI to answer questions, use it to remember everything you read. Think abo…	X	Positive	73	open
So what does it do? ))) like really. I test Obsidian for a couple of days useless tool the same as Notion.	TikTok comment	Negative	72	open
grok @bot + obsidian = a second brain that writes itself one vault, five folders and a loop that files every good answer back into a wiki you never touch here's the anatomy: > grok.md + agents.md - the constitution, same rules no matter whi…	X	Positive	71	open
You're a good storyteller Karlos - the way you broke down Steph's system philosophy before diving into the mechanics really helped keep the engagement up throughout the video. Keep up the great Obsidian content!	YouTube comment	Positive	70	open
anything but using Hermes agent	TikTok comment	Negative	69	open
Not OP but: I have severe ADHD and having a place where I can put all my thoughts for later when my mind is racing is amazing. Linking notes is like therapy to my brain. It literally made me calmer, more organized and less confused.	Reddit comment	Positive	69	open
Why an MCP server though? I don’t understand why. Obsidian is just a folder containing text files - an MCP server is not needed for that. And why would you favor an MCP server over Obsidians own CLI rven if you were to go that route?	Reddit comment	Mixed	67	open
oh shit I was working on something similar as an extension though	X comment	Neutral	67	open
Disclaimer: I used this to automate my business and generate $17,000 in profit, if you have a business, you can automate it too, but this does not guarantee a profit. A "Second Brain" is a tool, the rest is up to you	X comment	Mixed	65	open
that's gorgeous and kind of fitting that a second brain's graph ends up looking like an actual brain	X comment	Positive	63	open
I created my own integrating notion, obsidian and LLM specs 🥰 Love it	TikTok comment	Positive	61	open
That homepage is dope. How did you make it? Is it a plugin?	Reddit comment	Neutral	61	open
Andrej Karpathy (lead researcher at Anthropic) says his favorite use of AI isn't code. it's turning everything he reads into a personal wiki so I gave Claude Code my Obsidian vault. 1,400 notes from 3 years that I never opened again. one ni…	X	Positive	60	open
Lol correct It's all bullshit Git pushed markdown files for the repo is just far simpler and better	Reddit comment	Negative	59	open
This is f*cking gold, 8 free repos that give your AI agent a real second brain, and people still keep notes in dead folders 8 free repos for a second brain: -> claude obsidian (by AgriciDaniel) https://t.co/RNFghwuqU5 drop in any source and…	X	Positive	57	open
It's always so amazing to see how wildly different the perception mechanisms and brain works are for every single person. If I made something like that for myself I'd be overwhelmed by seeing everything at once in front of me, but for you t…	Reddit comment	Positive	56	open
How do you time your videos so well? I mean I was searching for an Obsidian tutorial just a few hours ago😭 Thank you for this video :)	YouTube comment	Positive	56	open
It’s 3 am, couldn’t sleep, and I saw this in my feed. Never thought hearing Kev would be some kind of ASMR to get me fast to sleep. Thanks.	YouTube comment	Neutral	55	open
STOP teaching Claude how Obsidian works from scratch. There are 5 free GitHub repos that can save you hours of building your own AI-powered Obsidian workflow. And the interesting part? Each one solves a different problem. Here's what you sh…	X	Positive	55	open
It feels like this is the third time you’ve made this video	YouTube comment	Negative	49	open
Obsidian + Claude is a literal superpower 👀	X comment	Positive	48	open
if you want to feel something & future: nixos + obsidian + agent i'm not kidding	X comment	Positive	48	open
What's reassuring and validating to me is that the workflow I use in many ways parallels many of Steph's methods. Automation + simplicity = productivity When on Reddit, I always like to write: "Focus on working IN Obsidian, not ON Obsidian.…	YouTube comment	Positive	45	open
1:26 ceo really looks like his avatar	YouTube comment	Neutral	45	open
In fact... https://t.co/rwDM0vGhBs	X comment	Neutral	43	open
yes yet another cli tool this is awesome, i enjoy this feeling	X comment	Positive	42	open
This is where AI starts feeling less like a chatbot and more like infrastructure.	X comment	Positive	41	open
I’m going to ask a different question than the Dashboard setup. Can you tell us how it made your life easier?	Reddit comment	Neutral	40	open
It makes simple multiplication arithmetic mistakes. Who needs a second brain you can’t trust	X comment	Negative	40	open
6 free GitHub repos every Obsidian + AI user should bookmark. Your AI agent can write code, but does it actually know how to use Obsidian? Most people are still building their AI-powered vaults from scratch. Meanwhile, Obsidian’s CEO has pu…	X	Positive	39	open
I don't get it .. what problem it solves? why would use this instead of basic Linux commands?	X comment	Neutral	36	open
This actually validates even more my approach! This is F... amazing! https://t.co/a1vPoCvzB6	X comment	Positive	35	open
A combination of CSS and plugins! * the [MCL](https://github.com/efemkay/obsidian-modular-css-layout) CSS snippet multi-column -- I used callouts and this snippet for the to-do section * the [dashboard](https://tfthacker.com/article-obsidia…	Reddit comment	Positive	33	open
This would be a genuinely useful setup to share as a downloadable vault!	Reddit comment	Positive	33	open
gotta admit, this is beautiful as fuck. congrats man	YouTube comment	Positive	33	open
Hook that baby up to Codex/Claude Code and let her rip!	X comment	Positive	33	open
Nice video. Btw, there is one more "level" you can reach with it. The vault can be the hearth of your agent routing and the ruleset in which your agents follow, you can add an operational layer around it by having things like: Project specs…	YouTube comment	Positive	32	open
Obsidian CEO’s personal vault is now public 😳 > Real setup he uses > Ready to clone > Skip the blank page phase Free & Open-source https://t.co/3Q3EYIWYn3	X	Positive	32	open
I switched to obsidian thanks to a video teaching me that the whole point was not to have an insanely precise setup, but rathe to throw links around to never think about "which folder does this note go in?" again. Changed my life.	YouTube comment	Positive	31	open
Efficiency is dangerous. You lose the repetition needed for deep mastery.	X comment	Negative	31	open
same as me many people literally skipped Obsidian no idea why	X comment	Positive	30	open
personal second brains are useful, even more when available in "multiplayer mode". @jakepel03 integrated @obsdmd with @origin_trail decentralized knowledge graph graph turning second brain into reusable memory for teams, agents, and organiz…	X comment	Positive	30	open
just a visuallized md file 😂😂	TikTok comment	Negative	29	open
free, all inside Obsidian 🚀 plugin: Settings > Community plugins > Browse > "Rho Network" theme: Settings > Appearance > Themes > Manage > "Rho Zero" 🖤	TikTok comment	Positive	29	open
The biggest trouble I ran into trying to follow something like this is knowing when to make a note or not to, and when to split a note into multiple. Because this kind of attitude presupposes you know exactly where those boundaries should b…	YouTube comment	Mixed	28	open
this is insane. Obsidian’s CEO has open-sourced 5 tools that can make your Claude + Obsidian workflow significantly better. if you use Claude Code with Obsidian, you don’t have to build everything from scratch or keep correcting Claude when…	X	Positive	28	open
My ClawdBot can’t contain his excitement 😍	X comment	Positive	28	open
How do you handle recall on the old stuff? That's where mine falls apart, six months later I know I wrote something but not what I called it.	Reddit comment	Negative	27	open
with ai you can do insane shit we're already living in the future	X comment	Neutral	27	open
nearly spit my drink out laughing at 24:00 with that unexpected philosophical truth bomb 😂	YouTube comment	Positive	26	open
https://t.co/wFlDepQ4sv That's why I made a universal, portable version that builds your wiki for you. You can ingest to it from your session, too. You can even share context via various tiers of access via QR/link and any LLM should be abl…	X comment	Positive	26	open
its on github? what were the things obsidian couldnt do?	Reddit comment	Neutral	25	open
This is insane to me. There are SO many native tools, between tags, links, aliases, folders, unlinked mentions, robust ways to record dates, databases, graphs, and a gazillion plugins that expand or modify all of those. The more ways you fi…	Reddit comment	Positive	25	open
or the illusion that getting everything “down on paper” is better. In fact this easily works against you. One of the most critical aspects of genuine intelligence is forgetting. It’s a powerful filter for selection, compression and abstract…	X comment	Negative	25	open
omething like this, but there’s problems. When you ask a question, there’s only so much context it can comb through. One solution I found was to make a map that rolls up the information to an abstraction layer, and links back to the raw dat…	X comment	Mixed	25	open
been running a similar obsidian + AI setup for research, that 80% overlap number is painfully accurate lol, but how does it handle sources that contradict each other? deduplication is the easy part, conflict resolution is where it gets mess…	X comment	Mixed	25	open
this was a tough listen, 40% explaining the problem + what NotebookLM/Obsidian already do. 20% sudden self-promotion. 10% technics 30% pure repetition. By the end I was exhausted by the over-sped AI voice. no wonder he’s obsessed with redun…	X comment	Negative	25	open
🔗 Download Kepanos Vault from my template site: https://timegarden.store	YouTube comment	Neutral	24	open
The AI generated Milo said he's a real person. Should we really trust it? :)	YouTube comment	Neutral	24	open
I'm doing this today screw you if I don't make 17k+ a month	X comment	Mixed	24	open
i actually vibe coded so many plugins for myself and got frustrated with the limitations that i created my own obsidian clone that could do it all. and i named it "the everything app" lol	Reddit comment	Mixed	23	open
How many tokens does the second brain use?	X comment	Neutral	23	open
Since many people are asking I will let you know once I have it up!	Reddit comment	Neutral	21	open
I’ve added a prompt to Claude that every time “we” work in my homelab or resolve a problem with it, that we document it in markdown and store it in Obsidian. It’s been a really useful tool for tracking what I’ve done with it over time, and …	YouTube comment	Positive	21	open
After multiple video about Obsidian, I almost gave up because I couldn't really grasp how I can relate to it. This is the first video that gave me the spark about how to pratically introduce it into my life! I miss one thing, the to-do list…	YouTube comment	Mixed	21	open
As if getting hate from VIM users for using VSCode isn't bad enough, I can already hear the dorks complaining about me using the GUI instead of the command line Obsidian. Looks sick tho	X comment	Mixed	21	open
I completely agree; the stupidest thing you can do is use artificial intelligence simply as a chatbot	X comment	Positive	21	open
keep it simple 🥀 [Photo]	TikTok comment	Positive	20	open
Give yourself more credit! You have created something that helps you, on your own. Nothing can compete with that! And the whole project seems very good...!	Reddit comment	Positive	20	open
As one small note about the paid features (mentioned @ 1:50), a $25 catalyst license, which lasts for a lifetime, simply feels good supporting the project and gives you early access to new features.	YouTube comment	Positive	20	open
this video makes me want to rewatch the film "Her." This is the future.	YouTube comment	Positive	20	open
Notion slander?	TikTok comment	Neutral	19	open
I want to get into using Obsidian, but I can't get what it's actually good for. I guess it's all about my workflow and my needs, but if you could share your own use cases, or how you use Obsidian in your own professional/personal life, it w…	Reddit	Neutral	19	open
There’s certainly a lot of that in the YouTube “second brain” tutorials. However, the reality is that LLMs work best in markdown, and Obsidian is the best open source markdown notes app. So if you want to read the documents that Claude is g…	Reddit comment	Positive	19	open
👀	X comment	Neutral	19	open
Also want to add that the task queries on the homepage make it so that tasks disappear when they are done, reducing clutter. The ones i have checked in the screenshot are “in progress”. So basically you are only going to see what you need t…	Reddit comment	Positive	18	open
Super cool keep building cool stuff [Photo]	TikTok comment	Positive	17	open
How much money does this take to run.	X comment	Neutral	17	open
What do you guys even do with all of these	TikTok comment	Neutral	16	open
Do you guys trust Obsidian? Should I move to a different platform?. I really like Obsidian, I trusted it until a few days ago, and I'm pretty sure it's just mental health related because I suffer from intense paranoia, but I thought I'd ask…	Reddit	Mixed	16	open
This! I have tried for the better part of 2 decades to find a way to organize myself in my jobs. Now I have a tool that I can use the way my brain works. That is a feeling I'm lacking the words for. It's a new world and I'll never go back.	Reddit comment	Positive	16	open
local first storage, incredible plugins, and the graph view obsidian is an absolute game changer	YouTube comment	Positive	16	open
I am here thinking about who pays for Obsidian; you do not need sync, just use a drive like Google Drive or Proton Drive, keep your drive folder in the vault, and use Codex or Claude to make fancy tools for your Obsidian.	TikTok comment	Positive	15	open
I've watched a lot of videos where people mention Obsidian, but wasn't sure what it was or what it does. This video was very helpful and informative.	YouTube comment	Positive	15	open
at least 3 engineers wasted their time on this btw	X comment	Mixed	15	open
Beginner cant decide between Notion, Obsidian, or both ?. Hello guys ! hope you have a great day. Currently, my ADHD basically make it impossible to try to be fully productive. Organising task, finishing my studies, planning things ahead et…	Reddit	Mixed	14	open
compounding knowledge sounds powerful but does the wiki stay clean after hundreds of PDFs or does it get messy	X comment	Neutral	14	open
Long way to go on mine 🔥🔥🔥 [Photo]	TikTok comment	Positive	13	open
That would be awesome! You did a really nice job! 👏	Reddit comment	Positive	13	open
High school English teacher here. This could be a longshot, but I’d suggest showing this to a couple of your teachers and asking them if it could be submitted in place of any of your coursework this year . Id consider taking this as a submi…	Reddit comment	Positive	13	open
Obsidian’s own CEO and team put out free tools that make Claude work properly inside your vault. Most people still haven’t found them. obsidian-skills (by kepano, Obsidian’s CEO) 6 skills that teach Claude real Obsidian: wikilinks, callouts…	X	Positive	13	open
People who use “second brains” are productivity larping and ship nothing. It’s catnip for midwits	X comment	Negative	12	open
Hell yeah, love to see it. Is there a way to edit layouts on the fly? I see ways to save, load, and delete workspaces, but not to edit them on the fly. If it’s not currently available that’s my main request, this is all fantastic otherwise!…	X comment	Positive	12	open
But why? I mean, Obsidian is a great tool itself, primarily because of its local and simplicity.	X comment	Mixed	12	open
How we make sure claude doesn’t t not share our notes to everyone else?	TikTok comment	Neutral	11	open
This is cool for small projects, but when it comes to managing enterprise projects, obsedian is super ineffective. Tokens are fed each time, context window gets super bloated, poor traversal methods, becomes super expensive with any flagshi…	TikTok comment	Negative	11	open
Daily journal since 2014, moved from Roam to Obsidian, so recall is the whole problem for me. Three things that actually work: (1) daily notes as the spine, and every note gets a "same day in previous years" line at the top, so old stuff re…	Reddit comment	Positive	11	open
For that context prompt you paste at the start of every chat, have you tried pasting it into Settings > General > Instructions for Claude? I think that might do what you're doing but automatically for each chat and cowork task.	YouTube comment	Neutral	11	open
⚡ Connect Claude or ChatGPT to Obsidian with Zapier MCP: https://obsidian.kevinstratvert.com 📚 Get Obsidian (it's free): https://www.obsidian.md	YouTube comment	Neutral	11	open
1. Because the great Claude models are too expensive for a regular pleb and 2. Because some plebs don’t like sharing too much of their thoughts and information to cloud service fronted models. Would be great for non private data for sure.	X comment	Mixed	11	open
I would love to see a setup guide for this using local LLM instead of Claude… Gemma + x under ollama	X comment	Neutral	11	open
Oh so many things. It's designed from the ground up for not just being a notes taking app with all the dashboards and AI stuff duct taped on it. Its designed to be modularized and the note taking stuff is just one module of inifite. One AI …	Reddit comment	Positive	10	open
I take notes in a NOTEBOOK with a PEN. I think the eye-hand-text connection is much more stronger in terms of data retention, interpretation and assimilation than any virtual tool or screen-based technique.	YouTube comment	Negative	10	open
I accidentally found your youtube video. What you have just shown to me is a life changer, before this video I used obsidian as just a fancy text editor, but after watching this video I'm facinated, I am just a newbie, but I want to learn h…	YouTube comment	Positive	10	open
How does Claude keep everything linked	TikTok comment	Neutral	9	open
obsidian is a larp, no one would use it if they couldn't dopamine spike and productivity ladp by looking at the mindmap tree. none of these people's lives are complicated enough to need more than a piece of paper with your biggest goals	TikTok comment	Negative	9	open
Interested too !	Reddit comment	Neutral	9	open
I would love to, my school is quite strict however on the curriculum and criteria we have to hit, and it is my final year , so I doubt any of the teachers would take it as a formal submission. I do happen to be the editor of our student new…	Reddit comment	Positive	9	open
Get the complete AI OS Setup Guide: http://www.linkingyourthinking.com/ai-os-full-setup-guide?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=vid30obsidianclaude&utm_content=pinned	YouTube comment	Neutral	9	open
a Really Underated channel, keep it up man, you inspired me to switch from notion to obsidian in may, and now i have my system 100x Better because of the Possibilities with AI agent, and most important my files, are mine and i can keep it i…	YouTube comment	Positive	9	open
Funny how your "second brain" in the promo clip doesn't know the difference between "you're" and "your." No point in having the second brain, apparently, if you haven't got the first.	X comment	Negative	9	open
cc @NotionHQ 👆	X comment	Neutral	9	open
By using a "second brain" you can forget about clutter; it finds everything, even the oldest files, and neatly organizes them	X comment	Positive	9	open
What’s the difference vs connecting it to Notion ?	TikTok comment	Neutral	8	open
You can use aliases for this. When I make a new note I’ll give it as many alternate names as I can think of. That way when I Cmd+O a year later I’ll likely be able to happen upon one of them.	Reddit comment	Positive	8	open
Here are my answers… - Basically Obsidian is a simple markdown file manager that you can use to link files, and it is local, secure, and highly flexible… - A traditional second brain is a system for storing your thoughts externally because …	YouTube comment	Positive	8	open
I am an AuDHD, so no hierarchical, but a networking brain. I work with connections, might take a detour if an association does not connect when I need it, using other associations to get to what i need. Struggled with about all note taking …	YouTube comment	Positive	8	open
Damn bro. This setup just looks crazy	X comment	Positive	8	open
You can make it look really pretty too - same level of functional :)	X comment	Positive	8	open
Yes. I will give all my knowlege to AI servers.	X comment	Negative	8	open
Oooh boy, my AI agents are gonna love that!!!	X comment	Positive	8	open
It’s free. I sync with iCloud.	TikTok comment	Positive	7	open
There is a lot of love here for Obsidian, would you consider a new love?. I am glad many of you think Obsidian is great, I personally also really do like Obsidian for many things. My big question is, what would entice you to use something b…	Reddit	Mixed	7	open
This. Local folder, git backed.	Reddit comment	Positive	7	open
Only video that helped clear concepts of second brain , where ai fits in etc and how that relates to obsidian . Only thing I would request is if you could share vault's folder structure which would give newbies like me an idea of how to str…	YouTube comment	Positive	7	open
I'm not going to lie I always thought obsidian was so hard to get into because I never really found a good use case, but this makes it such a good tracker for a bunch of different things making use of categories! goated vid	YouTube comment	Positive	7	open
Your graphics are spot on. Your a star. I learned so much from you and i believe you should get a "city key of YouTube" award. What did you used for doing this kind of graphis of it's not a secret?😊	YouTube comment	Positive	7	open
Get The Resources: https://www.skool.com/easymachineai	YouTube comment	Neutral	7	open
Glad to see Obsidian being popularised !	YouTube comment	Positive	7	open
How I Gave Hermes a Real Memory by Pointing It At Obsidian. Running Hermes feels like having JARVIS. The catch was always memory, and plain text notes fix that. Now my notes are its memory, with a voice and phone access. Full setup in the v…	X	Positive	7	open
J sent me this as if I wasn’t already posting about this months ago 😆🧠. Everybody is building a second brain, but do they know what they are doing it for?	X comment	Mixed	7	open
Tiago Forte made second brains popular a decade ago. And you can use Google Drive for free… or even host models or run them off Mac mini agents and have your second brain via openclaw/hermes/etc anywhere.	X comment	Mixed	7	open
banger	X comment	Positive	7	open
We are not the same, you use Claude Code/ Codex. I use Obsidian CLI.	X comment	Positive	7	open
nice, this is huge. you should make it opensoruce though	X comment	Positive	7	open
"$4 a month" its... free? 😭	TikTok comment	Mixed	6	open
Obsidian is the best. Been using it for years	TikTok comment	Positive	6	open
I am going to the pile-on of excitment and say: me too!	Reddit comment	Positive	6	open
\+1 well-done! I have ADHD and use my own Obsidian setup in a similar way, but I'll be damned if I'm not looking at replacing my "Home Tab Note" with this epic home page setup you've got going here. Very nice! Also thx for the spaced repeti…	Reddit comment	Positive	6	open
I just fork those plugins and push back upstream. If they take it cool, but ill still keep on keeping on. I turned taskNotes into automated task and calendar management and some tweaks. I manage my entire life through Obsidian too, even hav…	Reddit comment	Positive	6	open
If only Steph Ango and Aisha knew how much notes are being kept of them	YouTube comment	Neutral	6	open
I used what I learned from this video (or maybe one of your others) to create something called a living journal. It's sort of like having a coach, or councelor at your fingertips. The AI gives intuitive feedback based on the constantly evol…	YouTube comment	Positive	6	open
The biggest takeaway here is the shift from prompting to systems. The useful part is not AI writing finance docs faster, it is turning recurring workflows like reconciliation and board reporting into structured repeatable processes with con…	YouTube comment	Positive	6	open
I'd LOVE a multi hour video on this 😮	YouTube comment	Positive	6	open
Not a single productive and successful person I've ever met do some god level larp like this	YouTube comment	Negative	6	open
How do you manage the AI permission, so that it cannot work inside the human folder?	YouTube comment	Neutral	6	open
🤝	X comment	Neutral	6	open
The highest leverage personal use of coding agents right now is exactly this class of system: persistent, queryable memory that lives outside any single chat session and improves with every new source you feed it.	X comment	Positive	6	open
Why is this better for AI? Claude code reads and edits markdown files just fine	X comment	Neutral	6	open
I deeply question the actual usefulness. I believe there is a reason why Anthropic and OpenAI are not internally adopting for their harnesses (e.g. Claude Code & Codex).	X comment	Negative	6	open
me trying to open a needed note as it keeps flying away from the cursor cause i got the new useless galaxy theme that does nothing but eat computing power	TikTok comment	Negative	5	open
I would LOVE this! This setup is so very good!	Reddit comment	Positive	5	open
How does the Claude app on your phone access it? Always on remote control?	Reddit comment	Neutral	5	open
I’m that framework, the Git push step is replacing Obsidian Sync, not Obsidian itself. Obsidian is just a markdown reader.	Reddit comment	Mixed	5	open
Oh man, shots fired! I agree with you. I’ve seen it used as an AI competence smokescreen to show off to other people. Truly useful? Questionable.	Reddit comment	Negative	5	open
I am a big UI/UX guy. The workflow has to feel smooth and thought trough and the problem with that is, that its not just one big thing that makes or breaks it, its 100 little things.	Reddit comment	Mixed	5	open
You’re too good for us lol, appreciate you! ❤❤❤	YouTube comment	Positive	5	open
This works great as long as every note has a category assigned. Planning your categories ahead is a must (at least a basic list to start from). I had a very similar system except I was using tags. I'm now switching from tags to links for ca…	YouTube comment	Mixed	5	open
Thanks for the video. I have heard a lot of good things about Obsidian and I am looking for a service to move my notes from Evernote. Can you do a video on how to sync with cloud drives like OneDrive or Google Drive	YouTube comment	Neutral	5	open
Your second brain will be more valuable than your next AI model.	X comment	Positive	5	open
Explain to me in simple terms why so many people are obsessed with creating the second brain and what are they using it for to make their lives better?	X comment	Neutral	5	open
Not headless yet?	X comment	Neutral	5	open
huge! Obsidian CLI finally makes your entire knowledge base scriptable. As a sysops guy, I’m already thinking about CI/CD pipelines that auto-update runbooks, incident reports, or architecture decision records straight from deployment logs.…	X comment	Positive	5	open
And it took me two weeks to learn it and about four days to launch it	X comment	Positive	5	open
my 16gb mini PC just can't	TikTok comment	Negative	4	open
Is anyone else still trying to figure out what the hell obsidian actually is? I use Claude cowork and Google workspace. What am I missing here?	TikTok comment	Neutral	4	open
You don’t even need obsidian sync, if you’re just accessing on multiple devices just use remotely sync plugin	TikTok comment	Positive	4	open
Me and my team just decided to make our own app that works like obsidian but it actively shares each of our Claude’s minds together as one big Claude	TikTok comment	Mixed	4	open
I’m in the same boat 🥲 curious if u guys use a file/folder structure or just linking ?	Reddit comment	Neutral	4	open
Almost no folders. Linking and tagging do all the heavy lifting. Apart from that only a handful plug-ins for aesthetics and tasks.	Reddit comment	Positive	4	open
Cheers mate - I’ve setup folders coz my OCD takes over, followed the Johnny decimal system, absolutely love the structure (I think mostly to combat if I am browsing for attachments etc in a file explorer not in obsidian), but it just takes …	Reddit comment	Mixed	4	open
Thank you! It took a lot of tinkering, but now it really feels like a supplementary me-brain to help my actual brain.	Reddit comment	Positive	4	open
I mean, it's not complicated if you don't want it to be? If tags and the graph aren't useful, just don't use them? Same goes for anything else, if you just want to rely on links, that's also pretty easy and one of the flagship features of O…	Reddit comment	Positive	4	open
The thing is people store and store and store many things and never use it.	YouTube comment	Mixed	4	open
I'm 8 or 9. I'm an old nerd and used to take notes by hand. I have several notebooks on a Yearly basis. I have a visual memory and I can find notes from these books thanks to that. As Years go by manual work didn't work anymore. I started O…	YouTube comment	Positive	4	open
Love using obsidian as everything is local and the plugins are awesome, been storing all my skills and transfer docs, also the graph feature!!	YouTube comment	Positive	4	open
I’ve been confused about obsidian despite watching many videos. Your video gave me a glimpse of the greatness of this tool. Excited to try it out!	YouTube comment	Positive	4	open
This gives me pure amazement. Was just the perfect thing I needed, with very adequate workthrough. Thank you for making this video.	YouTube comment	Positive	4	open
Great guide! As always well articulated and simplified for us plebs!	YouTube comment	Positive	4	open
I have one question: why is the system called "Daily Trident", when it has only two parts? 🤯	YouTube comment	Neutral	4	open
How would I run my business and personal "brain" next to each other and how do you direct updates to either?	YouTube comment	Neutral	4	open
Don’t you have the concern of giving any AI access to all your files/projects ?	YouTube comment	Neutral	4	open
im trying to do this but with joplin becuase Obsidian isnt open source. It may be better but its not os	YouTube comment	Mixed	4	open
I heard saving in cloud storage can mess vaults up hence why they want you to pay for sync?	YouTube comment	Neutral	4	open
useful tutorial with no filler and all useful stuff. thanks for teaching me how to use this app all my friends keep talking about!	YouTube comment	Positive	4	open
second brain makes sense	X comment	Positive	4	open
woah, this is extended mind thesis, accelerating. If your agent can quickly and CHEAPLY store and traverse your extended mind graph, then making and storing context becomes trivial. this is the early innings of hive minds	X comment	Positive	4	open
This is cool. I have no clue if this will actually be useful lmao	X comment	Mixed	4	open
Still setting mine up too	X comment	Positive	4	open
@Bober_smart man, I should've tried this sooner! missed the boat last year. gonna dive in now though, thanks for the reminder.	X comment	Positive	4	open
I did it a while ago used it once and realized it brought nothing to the table	X comment	Negative	4	open
So what makes this "second brain" profitable. Consuming lots of data and learning doesn't equate to making money. What is the specific use that makes you $17k a month?	X comment	Neutral	4	open
What is the name of the app in the bottom right?	TikTok comment	Neutral	3	open
How exactly do you use that? I mean what IS the purpose of It?	TikTok comment	Neutral	3	open
When will I finally reach here😄	TikTok comment	Neutral	3	open
Obsidian is a clutch memory solution for AI. What have you found to be the best feature of obsidian?	TikTok comment	Neutral	3	open
it's also very easy to self host!! I use the livesync plugin and host the backend on my server. it's well documented and super lightweight. supports encryption and multi device support. I highly recommend it!	TikTok comment	Positive	3	open
Emacs orgmode > Obsidian	TikTok comment	Mixed	3	open
Why wouldn’t your obsidian over Google Drive? I	TikTok comment	Neutral	3	open
obsidian + couchdb + self-hosted livesync	TikTok comment	Positive	3	open
You do not need to pay for obsidian, just use Google drive, one drive, drop box, your own NAS, or just keep it on one device and remote in when needed.	TikTok comment	Positive	3	open
my right and left side of the brain, still working on feeding the left side [Photo]	TikTok comment	Positive	3	open
Looks awesome!	TikTok comment	Positive	3	open
Is an app like Obsidian stable long term?. It seems to be made and run by volunteers and it is free. I love that in principle but while degoogling I have become wary of free stuff.	Reddit	Neutral	3	open
Exactly. And just because it looks beautiful, it doesn't mean it suits you.	Reddit comment	Neutral	3	open
Obsidian isn't open source, though it feels like it	Reddit comment	Mixed	3	open
I just have a "Claude config" repo and a /wrap function that updates memory, records lessons, does a doc sync check, suggests cleaning or "promoting" plans if they're multi session work, and writes a worklog. All of it is symlinked. I made …	Reddit comment	Mixed	3	open
I would like that too if possible.	Reddit comment	Neutral	3	open
I'm trying to build my own version of obsidian for personal use but rn it feels kinda not fleshed out. What features do you think are essential for your workflow that really make/break the experience?	Reddit comment	Neutral	3	open
probably vibe cod.... documented everything	Reddit comment	Neutral	3	open
i have been using obsidian second brain for idk so many months now with claude code and its just so good to just have all your context & agents in just one directory and you dont have to juggle between stuff and its just so shift to codex a…	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
I genuinely enjoy your videos, i like hearing how much fun youre having doing all these projects bc thats what ive been enjoying about learning, trying new things seeing how it can work for me, ive started expanding my usage more and more b…	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
Honestly one of the most clear ways of using Obsidian I’ve seen. The template system is massive! As a proper newbie am aiming to use this as a stepping stone at least to get into Obsidian	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
I am brand new to Obsidian and keep coming back to this video,so very helpful	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
At first i Thought random note, unique note creator staff are useless, but this video, told me i am actually using it wrong way, i will try this tomorrow morning, and start anew. Anyway, i only hsve 100+ notes (each are too big). Edit: man …	YouTube comment	Mixed	3	open
Thank you for so much for this! I’ve set it up and am really enjoying the Obsidian structure and portability aspects. I’m having two issues 1) I’m running a synced Obsidian vault across two devices. Obsidian’s sync seems to get wonky when I…	YouTube comment	Mixed	3	open
which susbcribtion do you use for claude code, pro or Max?? becuase my vault is above 200 pages and it has become token hungry so pro sub is not enough, is your setup token efficient?	YouTube comment	Neutral	3	open
Here before its all over youtube. BUILD A BACKEND GUYS!	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
I can see this having huge value for deep research in place of the collector scripts.	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
I watched it. Think I am amazed, but not sure I really comprehend what you have built. FWIW, it is unlike any other AI agent type set up I have come across so far. Splitting the MAN and MACHINE content is a great idea. Having the agents log…	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
Any chance you have an in-depth breakdown of how you actually set this up? There's clearly an interesting and elaborate framework underneath but it's hard to figure out the how when this video only covers high level details and a handful of…	YouTube comment	Neutral	3	open
Crazy how i was just searching about this question I have in mind and this video just posted 34 mins ago	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
Kevin = best tutorials on the Web. It's that simple. Thanks for this lesson!	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
obsidian might be one of the most convenient note taking apps, thanks for putting me on	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
Clean. Looking forward to learning more!	YouTube comment	Positive	3	open
Im the one who use it everyday	X comment	Positive	3	open
Because collecting "KnahWleDge" is a mental circle jerk, especially if you don't even process that information yourself. It brings almost to no value, despite being "neat graph" Relevant:	X comment	Negative	3	open
okay I'll say it: CLIs seem to be the easiest interface for agents to understand, can't wait to plug this into OpenClaw.	X comment	Positive	3	open
It was all (mostly) already possible since it's just markdown, but this will make scripting / automating that much nicer!	X comment	Positive	3	open
This is huge one! It'll be even better if it's headless. I hacked together a basic one for now if anyone is interested https://t.co/h8dRpF8e42	X comment	Positive	3	open
That's very good news, just the time when I decided to use obsidian as my memory bank for opencode harness with my special skill and sync the git repo in my iPhone 🫶👍	X comment	Positive	3	open
my oh myy	X comment	Positive	3	open
The main thing is to get a handle on everything; it really helps with running a business and managing other affairs, achieving full automation	X comment	Positive	3	open
The idea of building on everything you already fed it is way more powerful than another blank chat	X comment	Positive	3	open
Wow. And how much time did it actually take to set up the Second Brain itself before launching the agents?	X comment	Neutral	3	open
the honest answer is that most people are too busy building something new to care about optimizing existing code, or they're stuck in the old way of doing things and can't see what's next	X comment	Neutral	3	open
Auto-link everything and you get a well-connected mess. The graph compounds when the LLM links by your reasoning, not by proximity. https://t.co/z51hndIP04	X comment	Mixed	3	open
ki personal en Obsidian conectada a la IA ayuda un montón. Es un flujo de trabajo brutal para sintetizar artículos, cruzar datos de proyectos y tener toda tu documentación organizada en un solo sitio sin perder tiempo buscando archivos suel…	X comment	Mixed	3	open
The more I learn about Claude the more I feel I’ve been living under a rock	TikTok comment	Neutral	2	open
How bro	TikTok comment	Neutral	2	open
ICM folder management and structure provide a better view	TikTok comment	Positive	2	open
I really need to get used to utilizing Obsidian more	TikTok comment	Positive	2	open
what is this? could i run it locally?	TikTok comment	Neutral	2	open
Thank you I’ve been very interested in that kind of thing	Reddit comment	Positive	2	open
Sorry to bother you but I just cannot understand how you can edit the home tab, for me only the search bar appears and no editable place. edit: i managed it: the home tab plugin is not just a "homepage", but you can "extract" its sear…	Reddit comment	Neutral	2	open
Excellent idea. Share the newsletter link if you publish! I’m going to start an AI for educators newsletter soon. Props to you for your involvement in that!	Reddit comment	Positive	2	open
6:26 Why I think Obsidian is compatible with AI integration: 1) Uses markdown files 2) Sync feature allows one to connect to other vaults remotely 3) Allows plugins	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
3:48 your folders are organized as the Death Star	YouTube comment	Neutral	2	open
This seems like RAG but using a Wiki instead of a vector database 🤔 Brilliant!	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
This video finally made Obsidian "click" for me. I had looked at Stacks before, but it felt too complex because my documents are already well organized in Google Drive. What I was missing was not another content-management layer, but a know…	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
I use Obsidian extensively as a second brain, PM tool, task management, document/note writing, ... Two community plugins i use 1) MCP server/RestAPI within Obsidian and then add a custom connector in any AI tool. The capabilites are auto pu…	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
I really like this system. Thanks for explaining it! I have been struggling with understanding how best to use properties, daily notes, back links, templates and bases together, and this cracked the code for me. The puzzle piece I was missi…	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
Eh, its an ok setup if you have a job that fits the model. Just strange to say "No folders" and then uses a property to just redo folder. Found it much nicer to have the intake method (meetings, research) and the output (todo actions, prese…	YouTube comment	Mixed	2	open
insta subbed! This is very interesting friend. I will look into obsidian and setting my own up. I am currently in the mind of setting up my own server with my old pc and hopefully run my own Ai? Along with my own media with jellyfin. This i…	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
Whats your opinion about the Obsidian plugin Claudian? It‘s a non community plugin, so BRAT is neccesary to integrate it. I‘m very satisfied using Claudian.	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
hii... im a student , and i have learned so many things from you , just wanna convey my heartful thankss🔥	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
This is how I use mine, it also has a subsection for my wife as well and she can refer via messaging app.	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
Great (and fast) explanation of your setup and outcome. well done. can you guide me further on your front-end setup on top of Obsidian/Markdown?	YouTube comment	Neutral	2	open
How to build the front end (like yours)?	YouTube comment	Neutral	2	open
This video reminded me of all the reasons I want to stick with using Obsidian for its intended use, and why I stay far away from over-complicating it.	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
That’s what I was looking for. I started studying Zettelkasten using Obsidian. But what is the point? I have read thousands of books, written paper notes for each of them. Never re-read the book , neither the notes. I fell reluctant in spen…	YouTube comment	Mixed	2	open
Thank you so much for this video! It made me understand what the idea of the tool is, without all the hype around it. One question: if I create several vaults for different areas, like business, language learning etc, then they are complete…	YouTube comment	Neutral	2	open
I just know what to learn as a researchers this is one of tool I need to learn before persuing my research officially. And you are my fav instructor!!	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
Thanks! The video is very clear to explain how to use it. Yes, would love to learn more features of Obsidian.	YouTube comment	Positive	2	open
Can I use apple notes instead of Obsidian?	X comment	Neutral	2	open
nice second brain	X comment	Positive	2	open
I keep AI out of my Obsidian vault. It’s for me and my thoughts.	X comment	Mixed	2	open
this is actually insane once you set it up, game changer	X comment	Positive	2	open
wow	X comment	Positive	2	open
How do you get your command line looking so pretty like that?	X comment	Neutral	2	open
so f exciting gonna make integration with @screenpipe :)	X comment	Positive	2	open
Wow	X comment	Positive	2	open
The only thing I hate about Obsidian is that they won’t charge me a monthly subscription for it, it’s so good!	X comment	Positive	2	open
Claude skill for Obsidian CLI https://t.co/W2nr772ZHD	X comment	Positive	2	open
Thanks! That was the missing piece with my OpenClaw configuration. Now I can simply allowlist the obsidian command to manipulate the vault without resourcing to odd python or bash scripts.	X comment	Positive	2	open
Openclaw and codex bro are going to have a field day with this one	X comment	Positive	2	open
Amazing work!! I was running a docker with obsidian only for the sync 😅	X comment	Positive	2	open
It's really surprising; in my opinion, everyone should know this	X comment	Positive	2	open
this is interesting	X comment	Neutral	2	open
Thanks, I tried my best	X comment	Neutral	2	open
It's a great time to start right now	X comment	Positive	2	open
Yes, constant improvement, that’s the advantage	X comment	Positive	2	open
@grok explain this to me like I am 5.	X comment	Neutral	2	open
Great idea. The execution is CLUNKY!!!	X comment	Negative	2	open
yeah the format's kinda meh but still	X comment	Mixed	2	open
yeah that's true but still helps a ton with learning especially when there's massive amounts of material	X comment	Mixed	2	open
his mind wont retain any of it	X comment	Negative	2	open
stripping duplicates and focusing on unknowns is just efficient data routing, should be invisible to the user though.	X comment	Mixed	2	open
Sorry jut can not hear this bot overlay sound. Annoying	X comment	Negative	2	open
You need tolria. Sync is free!	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
Nice	TikTok comment	Positive	1	open
Okay	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
Estou tentando instalar no windows e não estou conseguindo 😁	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
Dont you need Claude code for this?	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
Is it that good? I’m kinda lost	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
google drive as the brain seems to be working ok I dunno hmm	TikTok comment	Mixed	1	open
Lols i built my own second brain using neo4js	TikTok comment	Mixed	1	open
what is the node based bottom right	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
What abt n8n	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
explain this in bp terms	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
Explain	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
Or use threadrun.dev for multi agent workflows	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
Hate this… Ban AI	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
LOL can we please stop pretending that connecting claude to obsidian creates a second brain? 💀 a pretty graph of markdown files doesn't fix stale data, conflicting facts or context rot	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
American bullshit talk about making money	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
"let it ruin your life" fixed it for you	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
mas alla de un grafico bonito... useless	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
cest comme si tu utilisais une voiture pour fabriquer un char a cheval	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
or just make ur own node system ur own llms and buy ur own hardware to run it all locally rather then live streaming your data to the clouds that you purchase these softwares from	TikTok comment	Mixed	1	open
and pay thousands of dollars	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
Obsidian does not do that much really functionally for AI, its just a note app for humans lol. compare obsidian with grep. i ended up designing my own full memory architecture myself because obsidian just didn’t satisfy what i needed for my…	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
Dumb idea. Obsidian is a graph db made for humans. LLMs cannot parse data relations as humans, a simple md file would work 100x better than obsidian just because it looks cool.	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
obsidian is just a map system. Just have a map.	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
nice! I like some of those concepts, may look to incorporate some features into my build, check out my page for updates	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
no databases or automations tho 🥀	TikTok comment	Mixed	1	open
Need to send this to Theo :)	TikTok comment	Neutral	1	open
Great advice	TikTok comment	Positive	1	open
My team has ours setup to auto pushe to gitlab for notes and text file sharing	TikTok comment	Positive	1	open
Yes, 100%	TikTok comment	Positive	1	open
It’s perfect engineering	TikTok comment	Positive	1	open
Pure BS, depending on your agent and if you want to keep things on your computer, for me obsidian is just a junky tool I dont need 🤷 and many AI agents dont need it	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
I use Dropbox and Skills. You dont need obsidian	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
wat - but there is a thing called neovim and it’s free	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
Obsidian is so useless 😭	TikTok comment	Negative	1	open
Bro pls leak the plugin	TikTok comment	Positive	1	open
[Sticker] Love this	TikTok comment	Positive	1	open
mine mogs urs icl	TikTok comment	Mixed	1	open
Fair. It’s free, uses an open file format, and has significant free community plugin support. So it’s not locking you into some subscription model that holds your data hostage in proprietary formats.	Reddit comment	Positive	1	open
You can still fork obsidian project tho	Reddit comment	Neutral	1	open
I would say Apple notes is way better natively for finding the right note. The abundance of tools can also complicate the workflow.	Reddit comment	Mixed	1	open
happen upon as a concept in knowledge organization?	Reddit comment	Neutral	1	open
Just loved these pixel art transitions!!!	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
I like the idea of an LLM-Wiki. The one thing that gives me pause, though, is what if the AI makes an error in judgement or gets a particular fact wrong? Those kinds of small errors could compound over time, since the next time something is…	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
I don’t know anything about this stuff but I love listening to you explain this stuff. You are extremely smart and friendly.😍	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
my friend told me i am stupid for not learning obsidian, claude and few other things but after thinkin a lil i started 2 days ago , and i didnt regret it i already have big plans. secondly he told me to watch your tutorial but i just ignore…	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
wow first time watching your videos.... by far the most helpful and easy to digest as a person who is new to all of the AI stuff. I also love the quiz at the end!	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
I switched so many times between Notion and Obsidian because I'm too indecisive 😂 But this video really made me want to try Obsidian again	YouTube comment	Mixed	1	open
just got into obsidian and I made this kind of vault by accident its cool to see that me and the ceo use the same ideas I just have more categories of things	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
Well, for over two decades I was just putting notes into ~/notes directory. Of course in plain text. With smart usage of vim/grep/find/and some other command line tools you get all that. And yes plain text rocks	YouTube comment	Mixed	1	open
You did a great job at putting this together. I'm a long-term user of Obsidian and took a lot of notes from this and I feel that this will 10x my vault now. Thank you!	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
6 weeks into this kind of setup and it is AMAZING! So productive... Obsidian is a natural browser for Claude products. 😊	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
This is so incredible and inspiring to me! I just downloaded Obsidian a few days ago and your videos have been very helpful in getting up to speed on the basis and seeing what could be possible once I get the hang of it. Can't wait to set t…	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
Thanks for this video. You revealed the fact that one does not need to use an MCP if you just want Claude to access your MarkDown files contained in your Obsidian vault. You can just point Claude to the relevant file directory on your own c…	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
this is mostly for when you want to work with your local files. If most of the data you have is on cloud or Notion The normal Claude + the required connectors do the same job 👍🏻	YouTube comment	Mixed	1	open
Nice content, Nick!! I really like the idea of separating my own thoughts and skills from the ai generated assets, but how do I migrate the skills installed directly from claude or downloaded from Github to a personal directory? Is there a …	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
absolutely brilliant explanation of obsidian really easy to follow, best i have come across. Thanks	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
I've created something similar. I painstakingly migrated everything to obsidian and crafted a system that fits my needs like a glove. I have also been intent on building AI interaction into it, but I really LOVE your dinlineation between th…	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
This is amazing! I grabbed a bunch of your sources from your website and I'm really getting into building things out with your muse playbook.	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
Hats off. Big respect for someone that values good design and puts in the extract work, and nice clean interfaces. They don't just look good. They're good for the brain to, rather craming eveything on one page.	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
I have literally been doing this. It was super easy to vibe code an app that acts like my own personal note taking app set up the way that I want	YouTube comment	Mixed	1	open
I'll have to wait until my first brain is working again.	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
I really like the dashboard that you've got setup for your obsidian, I'm a bit curious how you got something that looks this cool.	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
Yo!I love how you designed your harness, visually and functionally! Personally speaking, when I hear similar sentence structure to that of chatbots, it makes me wonder if the person knows what they're talking about or simply regurgitating w…	YouTube comment	Mixed	1	open
Thank you for sharing the information. I really like your dashboard set up. What theme did you use?	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
So what is the front end, did you write an extension for obsidian or a separate app? ( the Apple Music inspired interface)	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
I'm overwhelmed. But I'll search your channel for answers 😅	YouTube comment	Mixed	1	open
I haven't watched the whole thing yet. Still watching, but I noticed your collectors are pulling primarily daily metrics from your different channels, your different socials. Have you considered also using a time series database as a backen…	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
So why obsidian and not a DB? just wondering	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
how do i get my UI/UX to look and operate like this!?	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
This is ridiculous. I use normal text editor and store it on my Linux system with three backups done by rsync. Much easier. Much cleaner. More productivity focus. This app seems to take 80% of time just do type fancy brackets and customize …	YouTube comment	Negative	1	open
what is the privacy and security of Obsidian?	YouTube comment	Neutral	1	open
One of the best videos I've ever seen on YT. THANK YOU!	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
Thank you mate. You make things that are a bit more complicated sound so easy to understand! Love the work! Keep it up mate!	YouTube comment	Positive	1	open
A personal wiki that gets smarter the more you feed it? Love this idea.	X comment	Positive	1	open
emory makes agents more useful, but it also makes errors compound. one bad ingestion can be repeatedly cited until it becomes the system’s default truth. second brains need provenance, confidence, and update permissions. when two agents hav…	X comment	Mixed	1	open
been feeding mine scraps for months, its alrrady smarter	X comment	Positive	1	open
💰 CONNECT CLAUDE WITH OBSIDIAN & TURN YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO INCOME Your Obsidian vault can be more than a folder full of Markdown files. Connect it with Claude a…	TikTok	Positive	0	open
Obsidian works! Being simple works! Dont over complicate things that dont need to be complicated! #obsidian #notes #software #founder #entrepreneur	TikTok	Positive	0	open
My Obsidian notes turned into a solar system and every edit launches a rocket. theme to use with this = Rho Zero. plugin + theme: in the comments #obsidian #obs…	TikTok	Positive	0	open
What is Obsidian? #ai #claude #obsidian	TikTok	Neutral	0	open
POV: your notes app becomes a nervous system 🧠#secondbrain #obsidian #obsidianmd #notetaking #productivity	TikTok	Positive	0	open
my notes as a galaxy free obsidian plugin, link in bio #obsidian #obsidianmd #notetaking #productivity #studytok	TikTok	Positive	0	open
These three tools let Claude organize your Obsidian second brain for you. claude-obsidian reads, links and files any article or transcript into your notes. ai-s…	TikTok	Positive	0	open
I turned my Obsidian vault notes into a solar system. #obsidian #obsidianmd #productivity #notetaking #secondbrain	TikTok	Positive	0	open
I turned my Obsidian vault into a solar system. Every planet is a note #obsidian #obsidianmd #notetaking #productivity #secondbrain	TikTok	Positive	0	open
your Obsidian vault as a galaxy every note is a star #obsidian #obsidianmd #obsidiannotes #knowledgegraph #pkm	TikTok	Positive	0	open
free obsidian plugin: search "Rho Network" #pkm #obsidianmd #notetaking #secondbrain	TikTok	Positive	0	open
Welcome to C0rtex! #ai #obsidian #gbrain	TikTok	Neutral	0	open
If you use Claude with Obsidian, these three open source repos already built the second brain for you. claude-obsidian: drop in any source and Claude reads it, …	TikTok	Positive	0	open
How	TikTok comment	Neutral	0	open
use foam for the agents keep obsidian for the graph	TikTok comment	Neutral	0	open
can I use codex?	TikTok comment	Neutral	0	open
Can it replace Evernote.	TikTok comment	Neutral	0	open
I have an iPhone, iPad and use Windows for work and Windows/Linux at home Notion just works, no extra setups or payPerSync I tried Obsidian Sync for a year and I didn’t see any value on it	TikTok comment	Mixed	0	open
it will be fine lmao	TikTok comment	Neutral	0	open
I use evernote	TikTok comment	Neutral	0	open
coded my own version, free and local 🥰	TikTok comment	Negative	0	open
I think it’s kinda gimmicky.. like if you can manage systems in your mind or use the ai interface in an organized way it’s enough	TikTok comment	Negative	0	open
not open source	TikTok comment	Negative	0	open
You don’t even need obsidian tbh	TikTok comment	Negative	0	open
You dont need Obsidian, just build your own and its free. With AI there is no excuse not to. Why pay anything per month when you can have it free?	TikTok comment	Negative	0	open
The you need to pay for api credits to access ai.	TikTok comment	Negative	0	open
You can also use a git plugin to sync your notes over GitHub for free	TikTok comment	Positive	0	open
Don’t even need obsidian lmao md>	TikTok comment	Negative	0	open
It is all I used after moving from Joplin.	TikTok comment	Positive	0	open
Literally you do NOT need to be paying for anything. This is an undisclosed ad, do not waste your money people	TikTok comment	Negative	0	open
👍👍👍	TikTok comment	Positive	0	open
🙌🏼	TikTok comment	Positive	0	open
[Photo]	TikTok comment	Neutral	0	open
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 100 comments. Whoa, you've stirred the pot, OP. The general consensus is that you're technically right, but your simple setup is playing with fire. **The community agrees: Claude doe…	Reddit comment	Mixed	0	open
Compared to Obsidian sync, git is really slow.	Reddit comment	Negative	0	open
RemindMe! 1 hour	Reddit comment	Neutral	0	open
Obsidian in 24 Minutes	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
How the CEO of Obsidian Takes his Notes (Underrated Genius)	YouTube	Positive	0	open
I Built a Personal Mac App Around My Obsidian Vault	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
Obsidian Tutorial for Beginners	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
Give Me 14 Minutes, I'll Teach You 97% of Obsidian	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
Build an Obsidian BACKEND Not a Second Brain!	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
You Can Turn Obsidian Into JARVIS (Claude Code) Anyone Can Do This	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
What Is An Agentic Librarian? 🧠 Full Hermes & Obsidian Workflow (HITL)	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
Obsidian Explained in 6 Minutes	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
How I Use Obsidian + Claude Cowork to Run My Life	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
DON'T Use Obsidian, Build a Claude Second Brain! (Tutorial)	YouTube	Negative	0	open
I Switched Back to Obsidian (because of AI)	YouTube	Positive	0	open
Why I Left Obsidian	YouTube	Negative	0	open
Obsidian for Writers	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
How to Build a Second Brain With NotebookLM + Obsidian (Full Setup)	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
New Hermes Obsidian is a Game CHANGER!	YouTube	Positive	0	open
Obsidian Just Got a Universe Mode	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
How I Run My Whole Life Out of Obsidian	YouTube	Neutral	0	open
I am fan of Notion, but in stage changing to Obsidain now, thank you so much for this video	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
In the llm wiki I recommend adding a decision log as well. Because I discuss with ai and take decisions based on llm and have it logged. So next time it knows the decisions and reasoning behind them.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Third time coming back to this video very helpful!! 😊	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Just recently started using obsidian, I cannot believe I didnt do this before... with ai, its an incredible tool to help you do your work and make life genuinely easier.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Listen lady. You may have one of the most useful AI learning channels on the freaking web. Well done and thank you for what you do!	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Thank you, Tina. The LLM Wiki section (around 16:30) was the click for me. I keep everything in Obsidian, and I've now built a small persistent memory for my AI assistants: they read the vault, link notes to each other, and cite them back w…	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Have seen you mention Obsidian a number of times in your other videos, but it didn't really land. Until this video. I now get it! Thank you for this! Will be adding a wiki bot to my Hermes very soon!	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Excellent video; 1:1. Will analyze, evaluate, and iterate while evolving new tech based on this.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
This note-taking app never left my head even though the last time I used it was years ago lol Currently trying to learn this again	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
I'm definitely on the lower end of the note-taking scale, but the AI Database idea at (12:22) is a game changer!	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
This is BY FAR the best Obsidian video I have ever seen. Such great content. Really helpful. Thank you!	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Great video! I'd read Steph's blog post before but never really got how to put it into practice. Seeing you build it step by step finally made it click. The composable templates and linking every first mention are going straight into my vau…	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Thanks Karlos for posting such a detailed and informative introduction to this exceptional software. I was thinking about start using for months (or even years?), but today is the day I actually installed it. Your video motivated me a lot!	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
the daily > weekly > monthly workflow makes a lot of sense. i’ve been using circleback alongside my own notes too, i turn it on when a lecture starts, then use the captured conversation later when i’m reviewing and cleaning up my notes.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
I went to your website to get the template. Your website looks stunning!	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Your video and his method probably saved me from quitting Obsidian. Thank you	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
i’ve been trying to keep my own notes more minimal lately too. i also have circleback on my phone and turn it on when a lecture or meeting starts, then i can come back to the important parts later instead of organizing everything manually.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Thank you for making this. I'm not a super fan of reading but get a lot out of visual learning so this was spectacular. To actually understand how to integrate the categories and templates is a huge help. I thought just MoC linking was cool…	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
This feels eerily like when I started to learn Excel. almost similar to encountering equation functions in a cell. Kudos to you and the manual and map framework is a great callback to the earliest internet days of: How to do x,y,z on your c…	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
This is brilliant! It's checks all the boxes leveraging AI but remaining autonomous with your data! I've been using Claude for a year like a rookie with chats (I did upgrade to MCP use with a couple of apps) but this is really going to kick…	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
I love this setup for a solopreneur or consultant with multiple clients or just managing your personal life. But is there a way to have a similar setup for a small business with multiple able employees? Would they each have their own Obsidi…	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
So glad I don't need any of this stuff in my life :D	YouTube comment	Negative	0	open
Dunno if you have given Hermes a try. I think it automatically achieves what you're doing here. Curious to know your thoughts on that.	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
0:14 i really like ur font i couldnt find it what font is it.	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
How do you deal with parallel access and overwriting during this access? I think most people when working with AI not only work in one chat only? Waiting for this to be finished. I guess most people work on several chats simultaneously with…	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
It feels like claude is taking over obsidian...	YouTube comment	Mixed	0	open
Thank you! What are the hardware requirements, let’s say for a MacBook? RAM and GPU?	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
Thoughts on Hermes + Obsidian? Seems like a simpler setup, not for long time obsidian users, but for fresh ai os systems.	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
Thanks for the Video! 1. So Obsidian helps me stay independent of any AI provider, right? What about the automated tasks like the daily and weekly briefs? They are triggered from inside claude, right? Is there a way to also base those instr…	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
Thanks for video, super clear explanations. However, I would always favor a local model to read such kind of content of my life.	YouTube comment	Mixed	0	open
how you do the Back Up of your Obsidian ? i trust my Drive, but not Obsidian synch	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
thank you for such detailed video, can you please show how can i use noes from obsidian for spaced repetition?	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
How can this be used to work on the go too, without depending on the local Obsidian vault?	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
I am on a Project like this, but i needed an external point of view for the same solution. I take from this video a simple but powerfull concept in the stucture i couldn't see. Thank you!	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
I'll be honest with you, this is the first AI-powered tool that's caught my attention. I'm going to try to build something like this for myself.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
I actually have a very similar setup. My second brain is a cli (brain), and service (braind). braind lives in a k8s cluster, and I can connect to it anywhere. It has two parts. An api meant for the cli, and then a bunch of microfrontends. I…	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Very interesting use case. I really hadn't thought of it like that before.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
ADHD ftw! 😁 ..and great thoughts + learned + worked through advice ❤	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
How long to build this for a complete beginner with your course? Also how can you integrate grok bots with this?	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
Could you make a video explaining the difference between various note links and when to use each one of them in addition to tags?	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
You're the man Kevin.. I'll always go to your explanations first.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
With the way you utilised Claude and Obsidian from 9:56, is it possible to do this with Notion?	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
AI Kevin is strangely uncanny valley.	YouTube comment	Mixed	0	open
Awesome tutorial, why would we use Zapier to connect the workflow indications to Claude - Summarize email from Gmail - write it in an Obsidian note? Claude can’t make that workflow with Gmail connector? is there an Obsidian connector in Cla…	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
why did you do one thing 3 times instead of showing the key functions?...	YouTube comment	Negative	0	open
Very good overview of Obsidian. You're way of explaining the features and functionality is so much clearer and easier to understand than most of the guides that I've watched, read or listened to. Great job, keep up the good work.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
So Obsidian doesn't have a built-in AI agent, like for example, Gemini Notebook?	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
Thank you for this excellent tutorial! I've only started with Obsidian today, and at first glance it confused me. But watching you has given me an idea that Obsidian could be used as a database for contacts.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Very helpful and clear explanation.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Was looking for a tutorial on this and the “lets make a knowledge base for my cookie company” sounded way too similar. Lo and behold it’s the same guy whose excel tutorials I watched for the same damn cookie company. All jokes aside massive…	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
thank you for your simple tutorial! finally i got what obsidian is and how can i use it!	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
very helpful, i'm using this to plan out some worldbuilding for DND and writing. cool that your video came out a month before i need it. very helpful, thanks!	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Would be nice of u said why u do the hash tags ans things	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
Thanks for this. I've been using obsidian for work and I'm looking for more resources to get more comfortable with it.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Thank you for the video I have been often thinking to use Obsidian but due some feedback others said use Notion having viewed your video I am going to give it a try and use with Claude and N8N once I get proficient with it - thanks again	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
glad to see your cookie company joining in the Obsidian train! I've always enjoyed your interactive excel dashboards, and now I'm excited to see what you can make in Obsidian too	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Thanks Kevin, I will give Obsidian a try. In a future video could you say a bit about printing and exporting?	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
Appreciate this was a basic intro for folks into note taking with this app. But cool would be, beyond .md files, how is this useful and how does one go about generating a personal, portable self-context useable with any AI ... Claude or oth…	YouTube comment	Mixed	0	open
this guy is EVERYWHERE.	YouTube comment	Neutral	0	open
Awesome tutorial. I've been eyeing up a switch to Obsidian for probably a year now, so it's crazy that this tutorial released in the same week I decided to make the move.	YouTube comment	Positive	0	open
You mentioned stability but I want to be sure; obsidian is not stable at temperatures and pressures outside of volcanoes?	Instagram comment	Neutral	0	open
I love mine, wrote about it a while ago https://t.co/ePgf1iykYF	X comment	Positive	0	open
This aint legit	X comment	Negative	0	open
Show off my Obsidian, it's really cool.	X comment	Positive	0	open
I start using it	X comment	Positive	0	open
already had done it	X comment	Positive	0	open
Second brain beats code generation every single time	X comment	Positive	0	open
And always pay OpenAI to access info? No thanks 😂	X comment	Negative	0	open
Most people treat AI like a faster search engine. Turning it into a living, personal knowledge graph that compounds over time changes the default from starting blank every time	X comment	Positive	0	open
A valid graph with a valid context for everyone. Just use REP	X comment	Neutral	0	open
NotebookLM?	X comment	Neutral	0	open
说白了就是把资料堆变成可问的脑子	X comment	Neutral	0	open
Many ppl should start doing this	X comment	Positive	0	open
The session can't be the unit of memory if you're building something that thinks alongside you. What sticks between sessions is where the leverage actually is. https://t.co/2qtyDPC3Kr	X comment	Neutral	0	open
I will use it!	X comment	Positive	0	open
Gamechanger	X comment	Positive	0	open
CLI is the move	X comment	Positive	0	open
* except accessing paths with emoji inside	X comment	Mixed	0	open
love this	X comment	Positive	0	open
Something uniquely minimal about this. I love it.	X comment	Positive	0	open
Game-changer for Obsidian power users! Being able to automate everything from the command line opens up incredible workflow possibilities 🚀	X comment	Positive	0	open
How about getting the rendered contents of a document that contains DataView / DataViewJS??????	X comment	Neutral	0	open
This is a great start, but I really need this to work on a headless Linux VM and (a) not require the Obsidian app; and (b) it needs to support Obsidian Sync…	X comment	Mixed	0	open
Can I use it to sync?	X comment	Neutral	0	open
one of the biggest releases in 2026	X comment	Positive	0	open
This is the update I didn't know I was waiting for.	X comment	Positive	0	open
cooool awesome	X comment	Positive	0	open
Based 🫡 That's something we are all looking forward.	X comment	Positive	0	open
this is magical. looks like I'll be spending even more time in Ghostty: @openclaw tui --session [name] integrating into my workflow starting: now 🤘🏽	X comment	Positive	0	open
Oh now that’s interesting	X comment	Positive	0	open
peak	X comment	Positive	0	open
nice! my agents are happy	X comment	Positive	0	open
cli core	X comment	Positive	0	open
@grok explain the Obsidian CLI means for the agent.	X comment	Neutral	0	open
woah	X comment	Positive	0	open
the right move. Every serious productivity tool eventually needs a CLI — it's how you go from "app I use" to "infrastructure I build on." The timing is perfect too. With AI agents becoming the primary interface for knowledge work, having pr…	X comment	Positive	0	open
I can't wait to see your result	X comment	Neutral	0	open
Thanks, buddy, that means a lot to me	X comment	Neutral	0	open
I advise doing this	X comment	Neutral	0	open
This actually feels like a game changer	X comment	Positive	0	open
Thank you, this is truly excellent	X comment	Positive	0	open
with claude ez = win story	X comment	Positive	0	open
sounds like a pitch not a workflow lol	X comment	Negative	0	open
Is it public or it’s stays private on your computer?	X comment	Neutral	0	open
De map is het echte werk. Claude leest alleen wat jij netjes hebt opgeslagen. Wie zijn bronnen niet opruimt, krijgt een wiki vol ruis terug.	X comment	Neutral	0	open
17k/mo from a wiki setup? drop the numbers or drop the act 😭 whats the actual stack look like	X comment	Negative	0	open
100% and also	X comment	Neutral	0	open
How did it directly help your income?	X comment	Neutral	0	open
Sure you did lol	X comment	Negative	0	open
The “second brain” idea is honestly way more useful than having AI just spit out code.	X comment	Positive	0	open
need to try this second brain setup	X comment	Positive	0	open
thats insane	X comment	Positive	0	open
this is something you really need to use	X comment	Positive	0	open
先不说月入1.7万，第二大脑这个说法倒挺有画面	X comment	Mixed	0	open
It's really not bad info, thx	X comment	Positive	0	open
@grok what am I looking at?	X comment	Neutral	0	open
Everything is so clearly described in this terminal setup, well done	X comment	Positive	0	open
interesting topic, I'll have to try to customize such a system for my notes, because the idea with a second brain sounds cool	X comment	Positive	0	open
Karpaty helped you reach $17k a month in income, Karpaty did a great job	X comment	Negative	0	open
Building a local markdown wiki with terminal agents is quietly rendering half of those bloated $20/mo "AI memory" SaaS apps completely obsolete.	X comment	Positive	0	open
why unsuccessful?	X comment	Neutral	0	open
glad to hear that bro!	X comment	Neutral	0	open
well said	X comment	Neutral	0	open
yeah it's free and literally anyone can try it themselves	X comment	Neutral	0	open
depends how you approach it	X comment	Neutral	0	open
what's this for bro?	X comment	Neutral	0	open
The same lazy retards who think they can just read book summaries to understand the books are going to fall for this. https://t.co/JdtqjpBXV6	X comment	Negative	0	open
best AI stack, agree	X comment	Positive	0	open
stripping duplicates across sources is the actual unlock, most learning is wasted on hearing the same thing 20 different ways	X comment	Neutral	0	open
the deduplication logic here is the real unlock. most 'learning' is just a dopamine loop from hearing the same 20% of a topic in different accents. using notebooklm as a filter before it hits obsidian is high-tier info hygiene.	X comment	Positive	0	open
at this stack: NotebookLM + Gemini + Obsidian. It’s basically a defrag tool for the human brain. If humans start deleting all 'redundant' data in their learning process, are we just trying to fix a memory leak in the simulation's organic NP…	X comment	Positive	0	open
Crazy	X comment	Neutral	0	open

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