The only Obsidian + AI starter kit designed for people who have never used Obsidian or the terminal.
Build a personal knowledge graph in under an hour. No technical skills required. This is a ready-to-use template for Obsidian + Claude Code that turns a messy pile of notes into a connected, searchable second brain — automatically.
Most people try to build a personal knowledge system and give up within a week. The overhead of organizing, linking, and maintaining notes is too high. You end up spending more time managing the system than actually thinking.
You capture. Claude Code organizes.
Drop notes, ideas, highlights, and thoughts into a folder. Claude Code reads them, adds structure, creates connections between related ideas, and maintains the whole system for you. Over time, a knowledge graph emerges — a web of your thinking that grows smarter the more you use it.
Download it at claude.ai/download. Install it like any other app. You'll need a Claude subscription to use it.
Click the green Code button at the top of this page, then click Download ZIP. Unzip the folder and put it somewhere easy to find (like your Desktop or Documents folder).
Open the Claude Code desktop app. When it asks you to choose a project folder, click Open folder and select the unzipped second-brain-starter-kit folder. This same folder will also become your Obsidian vault — one folder for everything.
If Claude Code is already open, look for a folder icon or project name at the top of the window — click it to switch to a different folder.
In the Claude Code chat, type:
/setup
Claude Code reads the instructions in this folder and walks you through everything from there — installing Obsidian, downloading plugins, importing your notes, and switching to working inside Obsidian with Claude Code built right in.
By the end of /setup, you'll be running Claude Code inside Obsidian using the Terminal plugin, so you never need a separate terminal window again.
Inbox/ Drop anything here. Raw captures, quick thoughts.
Notes/ Your permanent notes — organized and connected.
Daily/ One note per day. Your daily journal.
Projects/ Active projects with their own notes.
Archive/ Finished work. Out of sight, still searchable.
Templates/ Note templates (you won't touch these).
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/setup |
First-time setup wizard — installs Obsidian, plugins, everything |
/import |
Bring in notes from Notion, Evernote, Apple Notes, or anywhere |
/morning |
Start your day — creates today's note, rolls forward tasks, sets focus |
/process |
Organize your inbox — adds structure, connections, and topic notes |
/digest |
End-of-day summary with reflection prompts |
/weekly |
Weekly review — patterns, growth stats, orphan notes |
/health |
Vault health check — dead links, orphans, missing metadata |
/save |
Save a conversation insight as a permanent vault note |
/adopt |
Wire up the skills to an existing Obsidian vault |
Check the examples/ folder to see 15 real-world notes transformed from messy captures into connected knowledge.
Before: 15 disconnected files with no structure.
After: The same 15 files with metadata, tags, and wiki-links forming a knowledge graph.
- Obsidian (free)
- Claude Code — You'll need a Claude subscription ($20/month). If you want to try it first, ask someone with a subscription to send you a Guest Pass for 7 days free.
Use Codex, Gemini CLI, or another AI coding assistant? The vault structure and workflow concepts apply — you'd just need to adapt CLAUDE.md to your tool's format.
Your notes stay on your computer. Everything is stored as plain text files. Nothing is uploaded to the cloud unless you choose to sync.
Built by Sixnatures Publishing. Based on a personal knowledge system with 20,000+ notes developed over 15 years, now powered by Claude Code.
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