@KanikaBK: Obsidian becomes REALLY interesting when you stop treating it like a note-taking app. Someone just shared a fascinating…
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The article shares workflows for using Obsidian as a 'second brain' to enhance productivity, inspired by Andrej Karpathy's system, with practical tips to save time.
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Obsidian becomes REALLY interesting when you stop treating it like a note-taking app.
Someone just shared a fascinating look at Andrej Karpathy’s Obsidian vault, a massive network of ideas, connections, decisions, and years of accumulated thinking.
The impressive part isn’t the number of notes. It’s the system behind them.
Most people open Obsidian, create a few random notes, and forget about them.
The real power comes when your notes start becoming a second brain:
Ideas connect. Information gets resurfaced. Workflows become repeatable. Knowledge compounds over time.
That’s exactly why I put together:
15 Obsidian Workflows That Quietly Save Me 15+ Hours Every Single Week
These aren’t complicated productivity hacks.
They’re practical workflows that turn Obsidian from a place where you store information into a system that actually helps you think, organize, and get work done.
If you’re using Obsidian as nothing more than a digital notebook, you’re probably leaving most of its power unused.
My article is a must-read if you want to build an Obsidian system that actually works for you.
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