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2026-04-08 01:17
I Built a Personal Second Brain with Markdown Files and Claude Code — Here's How
The Inspiration
I saw Andrej Karpathy's viral post about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases — no vector database, no chunking pipeline. Just markdown files, Obsidian, and Claude Code.
The core idea blew my mind:
Create a folder with raw/ and wiki/ subfolders
Drop in source documents, articles, transcripts
Tell the LLM to ingest the raw files and build wiki pages with relati...