Claude Obsidian is INSANE!

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Claude Obsidian is insane. What if I told you you can turn your messy notes into an AI brain? A brain that writes for you, codes for you, automates your whole business. No coding, no tech skills, nothing fancy, just Claude plus Obsidian, >> [music] >> and it's free to start. This is wild. Let me show you. Today, I'm going to break down Claude plus Obsidian. This combo is blowing up right now, and I'll show you exactly how to set it up step by step. Now, before we get into it, Julian Goldie reads every single comment, so drop a comment below and tell me what you want to automate first. He reads them all. Okay, let's get into it. So, what everyone is talking about? Let me break it down simple. Obsidian is a notes app, but it's not like other notes apps. So, your notes live on your computer in plain text files. You own them forever. You can link notes to each other like a web of ideas. Some people call it a second brain. Hey, if we haven't met already, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie Agency. Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates. Now, here's where it gets crazy. Claude is the AI from Anthropic. You've heard me talk about it a million times. It's one of the best AI models out there right now. When you put Claude inside Obsidian, magic happens. Your notes become alive. Claude can read them, understand them, write new notes from them, answer questions about them. And with Claude Code, it can even automate stuff, write scripts, build systems, do real work. This is not some small upgrade. This changes everything about how you run your business. Let me give you an example. Say you run a business. You have hundreds of notes, ideas, meeting notes, client info, random thoughts. Most of it sits there doing nothing because who has time to read it all? With Claude plus Obsidian, you just ask, "Hey, pull all my notes on my best clients. Find what they have in common. Write a plan to get more clients like them." Boom, done in seconds. Or this one, "Look at all my content ideas. Pick the best 10. Write YouTube scripts for each one." 10 scripts from notes that were just sitting there. That's the power. Okay, so how do you actually set this up? Let me walk you through it. Step one, download Obsidian. It's free. Go to obsidian.md, install it. Takes 2 minutes. Step two, make a new vault. A vault is just a folder where your notes live. Call it whatever you want, business brain, my AI vault, your choice. Step three, now we add Claude. There are a few ways to do this. I'll show you the best ones. The first way is plugins. Obsidian has a plugin store. You can find plugins that connect Claude right into your notes. Claudian is one of them. CAO is another. These plugins let you chat with Claude right inside your notes. You install the plugin, you add your Claude API key, and you're done. Now, you can highlight any note, ask Claude a question, get an answer, right there in your vault. The second way is Claude Code. This one is more powerful, way more powerful. Claude Code is a tool from Anthropic, runs in your terminal, can read files, write files, run commands, do real work. You point Claude Code at your Obsidian vault, and now it can do anything with your notes. To reorganize 500 notes, Code does it. Want to find every note about a certain topic and make a summary? Want to build a whole content calendar from your ideas? Easy. This is where the real magic is. Quick pause. If you want to go deeper on stuff like this and learn how to save time and automate your whole business with AI tools like Claude and Obsidian, check out the AI Profit Boardroom. It's the best place to scale your business, get more customers, and save hundreds of hours with AI automation. We share all the prompts, the workflows, the exact setups, everything we use. Link is in the comment and description. Come join us. Okay, back to it. Let me show you some real ways to use this for your business. Use case one, content creation. You want to grow your brand on YouTube or a blog, anywhere. You probably have tons of ideas in notes, docs, in your head. Put them all in Obsidian. Dump them in there. Messy is fine. Use Claude to clean it up. "Look at all my content ideas in this folder. Group them by topic. Pick the top 20. Write hooks for each one." Claude reads everything, groups it, ranks it, writes hooks. You just went from chaos to a content plan in 5 minutes. Use case two, client work. If you serve clients, you know the pain. Meeting notes, emails, project details, all over the place. Make a folder in Obsidian for each client. Dump everything in there. Then ask Claude to gather everything on this client. Make a one-page summary. Tell me what's next. Fast. You walk into every meeting ready. You look sharp. Clients notice. Use case three, learning. This one is a game-changer for me. Every time I learn something new, I put notes in Obsidian. YouTube videos, books, podcasts, courses. And I ask Claude to teach me. "Look at my notes on AI automation. Teach me on the key ideas. Find gaps in my learning." Claude becomes your tutor. It knows what you know and what you don't. You learn faster, remember more, actually use what you learn. Let me show you the Claude Code setup cuz this is where it gets crazy. You open your terminal. You install Claude Code. It's one command. And you point it at your Obsidian vault folder. You can tell Claude Code stuff like this, "Read every note in this folder. Find the ones about marketing. Make a new note called master marketing plan. Put all the best ideas in there. Organize them by traffic, leads, and sales." Claude Code goes and does it. Reads every file. Picks the good stuff. Writes a new note. All organized. You could spend a whole day doing this by hand. Claude Code does it in 1 minute. Let me show you some advanced stuff because this is where most people stop. But the real power is here. Advanced move one, connect your vault to your whole workflow. You can tell Claude Code to watch your vault. Every time you add a new note, Claude does something with it. Drop a meeting note in a folder, Claude reads it, pulls out action items, adds them to your task list. You did nothing. The system did it all. Advanced move two, build your own knowledge agent. This is nuts. You can set up Claude to act like a mini team member. You give it a role. You give it rules. You give it access to your vault. Now, it answers questions like a team member would. You ask, "What did we decide about pricing last month?" Reads your notes and tells you. You ask, "What's our content plan for this quarter?" Pulls everything together. Advanced move three, to generate content. This one I use every day. Have a folder in my vault full of research, articles, YouTube transcripts, ideas. Point Claude Code at it, and I say, "Write me five YouTube scripts based on this research. Use my style. Use my hooks. Make them punchy." Writes five full scripts based on real research in my voice. What used to take me all week now takes 10 minutes. That's the dream, right? It's work through output. Let me be real with you. Nothing is perfect. Claude plus Obsidian has some downsides, too. You need a Claude API key or a Claude subscription. Plugins can be buggy sometimes. Claude Code has a learning curve. It's huge, but you have to get used to the terminal. And if your vault is huge, some tasks take longer. Honestly, the wins are way bigger than the downsides. I'd rather spend a few bucks a month and save hundreds of hours. Easy choice. Here's the thing, AI is moving fast, super fast. People who win are the ones who build systems now, not next year, next month. Obsidian plus Claude is one of the best systems you can build. It's simple. It's cheap. It's powerful. And it grows with you. Every note you add makes it smarter. Every month you use it, it gets more valuable. Most people are still copy-pasting into ChatGPT. It's fine, but it's slow. It forgets everything. Doesn't know your business. Claude plus Obsidian fixes all of that. Your AI knows you, business, clients, your ideas. It's your AI, not a generic one. So, here's what to do next. Download Obsidian today. Start a vault. Dump your notes in there. Don't worry about being organized. Just get stuff in, and pick one plugin. Just one. Claudian is a good start. Add your Claude API key. Play with it. See what it can do. As you get the hang of that, try Claude Code. Point it at your vault. Ask it to do something big. You'll be shocked at what happens. Start small. Build up. In a few weeks, you'll have an AI brain that runs your business. That's not hype. That's just where things are now. Now, if you want the full process, SOPs, and over 100 AI use cases like this one, join the AI Profit Boardroom. Learn how to automate your workflows with tools like Claude and Obsidian and scale your business with AI automation. Link is in the comments and description. And if you want free access to all the video notes, prompts, and a community of 68,000 members who are crushing it with AI, join the AI Success Lab. It's completely free. Link is in the comments and description. You'll get everything from this video plus way more in there.