# Your Brain -- Vault Starter

This is a starter folder structure for your Obsidian vault. Drop these folders into the vault you just created and you have a working second brain on day one.

You do not have to use all of these. Pick the 2 or 3 that match how your brain actually works and ignore the rest. The whole point is that this thing fits you, not the other way around.

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## Folder structure

```
my-brain/
├── daily-log/
│   └── 2026-05-11.md
├── ideas/
│   └── ideas.md
├── tasks/
│   └── tasks.md
├── goals/
│   └── goals.md
├── notes/
│   └── notes.md
└── people/
    └── people.md
```

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## Daily log template

Drop this into `daily-log/2026-05-11.md` (or whatever today's date is). Make a new file like this every day. Even one line is enough.

```
# 2026-05-11

## What I did today
-

## What I am thinking about
-

## Ideas worth saving
-

## On my mind
-
```

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## Ideas file template

One running file. Just keep adding to the top.

```
# Ideas

## 2026-05-11
- Idea here
- Another idea here

## 2026-05-10
- Older idea
```

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## Tasks file template

```
# Tasks

## This week
- [ ] Thing to do
- [ ] Another thing

## Someday
- [ ] Bigger thing I want to get to
```

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## Goals file template

```
# Goals

## This year
-

## This quarter
-

## This month
-
```

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## How to wire this into Claude Code

Once your vault has files in it, open a fresh Claude Code chat in any project and paste this:

```
I have an Obsidian vault at [PASTE YOUR VAULT PATH HERE]. Update my global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md so you check this vault any time I reference my notes, my journal, my ideas, my tasks, or my brain. List the folders so you know what is in there.

Confirm what you saved and tell me how I will know you are checking it.
```

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## What to do tomorrow

Open Obsidian. Make a new daily log file with today's date. Write one sentence about what is on your mind. That is it.

Most people quit after a week. The ones who keep going for 6 months have an AI that knows them better than anyone in their life. Including their therapist.

This is the file. The rest is just you showing up.

-- Ryan