Build Your Second Brain: The Obsidian Vault I Run My Whole Business On
Most operators drown in notes, tabs, and screenshots they never look at again. The hard part isn't capturing information → it's turning it into a system your AI can actually use to do real work.
In this live session, I'll open up my own Obsidian vault → the exact second brain I run four ventures from AND show how it doubles as the memory and operating layer for my AI.
Not note-taking theory → the real, live system that captures what I learn and feeds it straight into workflows across ecommerce, content, ops, and marketing.
It syncs across every machine I work on, so the same brain follows me everywhere.
A main focus will be how my vault is wired so my AI treats it as context, not clutter. I'll walk through the actual setup → an eleven-folder structure, naming rules, internal links, and a hub-and-spoke "map of content" layout, plus the hard rule I enforce that no note gets saved without linking to what's already there.
I'll also show how I instruct my AI to act as the librarian of the vault → not just a chatbot, but a steward that files, links, and keeps the whole thing organized for me.
I will even show the capture engine I built → my "gobble" workflow that takes any raw input (a URL, a paste, a transcript, a PDF), summarizes it, decides where it belongs, links it, and files it for me. Then the skills layer that runs on top → turning meetings, reading, and reusable prompts into outputs my AI produces again and again.
We'll cover the automations I run against the vault so it stays alive instead of rotting → a nightly sweep that triages my inbox, meetings that flow straight into my task list as action items, and daily logs my AI writes for me without being asked.
You'll leave with a clear blueprint for running a second brain as an operator: less lost information, more compounding knowledge, and a vault your AI uses every single day → modeled on one that actually works.
Built for founders, operators, ecommerce teams, agencies, and business builders.
No technical background needed.
Bring a folder of messy notes, a process you keep re-explaining, or a knowledge workflow you want your AI to run