Everything you need to set up the two engines you built in the workshop: your Second Brain, and an AI that thinks like you. Grab the tools, follow along, and watch it get built.
A handful of apps. Install these first and you're ready for everything that follows. You don't need to be technical, and you don't need all of them on day one. Start with the first one.
Your command center. This is the AI that reads your files, builds your second brain, and does the real work. Both engines get installed right here.
Download ClaudeA second AI to think out loud with, draft quick things, and run fast research. Good to keep next to Claude so you always have a second opinion.
Download ChatGPTOpenAI's version of Claude Code. It works the same way, so if one tool is ever down or stuck, you can hand the same job to the other and keep moving.
Get CodexDictate instead of type. Speak your ideas, notes and prompts and they appear as clean text. The fastest way to feed your brain without sitting at a keyboard.
Get Wispr FlowA clean window into your second brain. Your files are simple notes, and Obsidian turns them into a connected, searchable web you can browse any time.
Download ObsidianAn always-on helper that runs jobs for you in the background, even when your laptop is closed. This one is more advanced. It runs best on a cheap cloud server (a VPS) or a spare computer you can leave on, and pairing it with ChatGPT keeps the running costs down. You don't need it to start, and we can set it up together later.
See HermesOnce your tools are installed, get these ready and you're good to go.
Make one new empty folder for your brain, named something like my-second-brain, and keep it out of iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive so nothing fights over your files. Here's the click-by-click.
my-second-brain and press Return.my-second-brain and press Enter.Download them from this page. You'll hand them to Claude one at a time. It reads the file, asks you a few questions, and builds everything while you watch.
Each one layers on the last. Today you install the first two. The third is coming.
Your Second Brain. A clean, organised home your AI thinks from every time you work together.
Ready to installWho you are, on file. Your memory, preferences, goals and voice, so the AI sounds like you and works the way you would.
Ready to installYour AI Implementers. A team of specialists that do the work on top of your brain and your Self Engine.
Coming soonStrategy is the home for everything you feed in. Self teaches it who you are. Systems puts it all to work. The more you feed the base, the smarter the whole thing gets.
A simple six-folder home for your notes, projects and life, shaped around your real work. Build it once, benefit forever. This is the home base everything else plugs into.
read this file and set up my second braingo and it builds while you watch.Saves as 1-Strategy-Engine-Setup.md
Fifteen questions that capture who you are: your memory, preferences, goals and voice. They get turned into a Self Engine the AI reads whenever it helps you, so it sounds like you and works the way you would. It saves as you go, so you can stop any time and say "continue" later. There's an optional last step to feed in your real history, which you can also do another time.
read this file and build my Self EngineSaves as 2-Self-Engine-Setup.md
It isn't something you build once and forget. The more you feed it, the smarter it gets about you and your work. Here's the simple loop that keeps it alive.
Anything worth keeping goes into one place. Open Claude in your folder, hand it whatever you've got, and say the line below. A voice note from Wispr Flow, a link, a half-formed idea, a meeting summary, a screenshot. Don't sort it yourself. Capturing is the only job.
help me add to my inboxOne line reads each item, decides where it belongs, and files it across your brain. A messy pile becomes a sorted brain in one move. You can run it by hand any time with the line below, but the whole point is that you shouldn't have to remember. Set it once and let your computer run it for you every day.
sort my inboxYour computer already has a built-in scheduler. You'll point it at one line that opens your brain and sorts it, then pick a daily time your laptop is usually on. After this, you never think about it again.
Sort my inbox.That's it. Your brain now tidies itself once a day, hands-free, as long as your computer is on at that time.
Once a week, your brain looks back on its own. It reads everything new, pulls out the patterns and lessons, and writes them up as short wiki articles: clean, titled pages you can search and re-read any time. This is how a pile of raw notes slowly turns into your own library of insight. Same idea as the daily sort, just scheduled weekly instead.
review my weekExactly the same setup as the daily sort, with two small changes: it points at the weekly line below, and you pick Weekly instead of daily. A Friday wind-down or a Sunday reset works well.
Review my week and choose Weekly.Over a few months this becomes the most valuable part of your brain: your thinking, captured in your own words, with no effort from you.
Don't overthink the first day. Open Claude in your folder, say help me add to my inbox, and throw in a few easy things just to feel it work:
Then say sort my inbox and watch it find a home for each one. That's the whole thing working, start to finish.
Once your brain and Self Engine are in, the last engine puts them to work: a team of AI Implementers that draft, build, sell and organise on top of everything you've installed, each one reading your brain and your Self Engine before it acts. We install these together in the next workshop.
Nothing in this setup is one-way. If something doesn't feel right or a word sounds technical, just ask Claude a question, because that's what it's there for. You can always fix or change it together.