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

In this video, I'm going to show exactly

how to build your second brain using

Claude Code and the power of Obsidian.

And specifically for my use case, I use

Obsidian here to manage different

projects. And furthermore, I was able to

use Claude Code here as like a AI

assistant here to manage my notes. Right

here, you can see I have a bunch of

Obsidian CLI skills, which will

basically help us to create better

Obsidian notes. And right here, you can

see one of the skills that I created

called the onboarding projects, which

can help me to take any data source that

I have like Gmails and local files, have

Claude Code here to organize, summarize

those informations, and store that

inside of my Obsidians using the

Obsidian skills. I'm going to show you

in later on this video. And pretty much,

you can see that we can use Claude Code

here with the power of Obsidian to

basically help us to answer any

questions, perform any actions on our

notes. So, with that being said, that's

what we're going to cover in this video.

If you're interested, let's get into

this. Now, before we continue, I

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you in the community. Now, because

Obsidian here is not free, the free

version here doesn't allow you to sync

notes or do the version control. And

that's why the first step we're going to

do here is basically have Obsidian here

to connect it with our GitHub by first

creating a repository. And any changes

that we're making in our Obsidian notes,

we're going to push that onto our GitHub

repository. This way, we're going to

have a version control and also

completely free for cloud storage. So,

in this case, let's take a look at how

we can do this first. All right, so to

get started, first thing first, we're

going to do here is make sure to create

our GitHub accounts. And simply, all we

have to do here is just click on new

right here to create a new repository.

And this will basically going to be a

folder we're going to dump all the data

here inside of our repository in GitHub

so that we have the right version

control, and we can also be able to

change the visibility. So, here I'm

going to change that to be private

because I don't want anyone else here to

see the brain because you only want to

use this for your cloud storage and

version control. So, in this case, I'm

going to give it a name for the

repository, and I'm just going to call

it the Eric Tech Brain. And simply, once

that's done, I will just click on create

new repository. And now, you can see we

have a repository created inside of our

GitHub. So, once we have a repository

now, what we have to do here is we want

to make sure to clone this inside of our

local machine so we can move to add any

local files here onto our GitHub for

cloud storage and version control. And

to do so, if you're really new to

terminal and you're not really a

developer, I highly recommend you just

to install GitHub Desktop where you can

be able to manage the entire version

control and the cloud storage in a

desktop graphical user interface rather

than just using the terminal. So, for

demonstration, I'm just going to

download this onto my local machine.

Now, once you have your GitHub Desktop

app downloaded on your local machine,

this is what it looks like. So, all we

have to do here is just make sure to

select the repository that I just

created. For example, mine is called the

Eric Tech Brain. So, there's one called

Eric Tech Brain, and we can see that

currently it is private. So, I'm just

going to choose that and be able to

clone this onto our local machine. So,

I'm just going to click on clone, and

it's telling you exactly where you can

clone this. So, you can see that the

local file path here is actually inside

of documents. But if I want to change

that, for example, I want to change that

to be in my desktop, I can be able to

change that and click on select. And

then here, all I have to do here is just

click on clone, and it's going to clone

the repository here on our desktop

folder in our local machine. So, now you

can see we have the repository cloned

inside of our desktop folder. The next

thing we're going to do here is make

sure to have Obsidian installed on our

local machine as well. So, now if I were

to head over to the Obsidian download

page, simply all I have to do here is

click on download, and it's going to

download this app on our local machine.

So, I'm going to download this for my

Mac version. All right, so now once I

have downloaded this on my Mac OS, the

next thing we're going to do here is

make sure to open folder as vault. So,

I'm going to click on open. And then

here, I'm going to click on desktop.

Then we're going to click on the

repository that we just cloned and click

on open. And then here, you can see this

is the notebook that we have for our

Eric Tech Brain. So, now once we have

this open, here you can see on the

right, this is the entire Eric Tech

folders. that we write on the Obsidian

is going to be reflected inside of this

folder. So, for example, if I were to

create a new note, for example, here you

can see this is the note. And right here

on the right, you can see we have

untitled.md file. So, now if I were to

type in, for example, Eric Tech, and

that's going to be the file name, you

can see that has changed reflected right

away. And if I were to create a folder

in Obsidian, it's going to do the same

thing here as well. So, next we're going

to show you here is basically commit the

changes onto our GitHub so that we have

a cloud backup. So, right here, you can

see if I were to open the GitHub Desktop

app, currently on the left, you can see

we have six changes on the files. And

simply, I'm just going to give the

message summary on exactly what are the

changes that we have just made. I'm just

going to say this is the initial

summary. You can see this is the initial

commit. And commit this, then click on

push here to basically push that changes

onto the remote, which is our GitHub

repository. So, now if I were to click

on the history here, you can see this is

the commit that we just committed, and

now has that change. So, if I want to

revert it back, you can do so. So, now

if I were to head over to the GitHub

repository browser, here you can see

this is the Eric Tech Brain. And right

here, you can see this is my first

initial commit, which basically means

that we have successfully saved the

changes onto our GitHub repository here.

Now, obviously, making changes and

manually have to commit this is going to

be really painful. And you might be

asking, "Well, is there any ways that we

can be able to automatically commit this

onto our GitHub repository?" And the

answer here is yes. So, now if I were to

head over to the Obsidian here, all we

have to do here is just click on the

gear icon. And basically, if I were to